Excellence through Mental Strength
by Lionel Baugh
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GENRE: Self-help / personal development
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BLURB:
Have
you ever felt like your weaknesses were holding you back from opportunities in
life? Or feared you don't have the skill set to tackle new experiences? Perhaps
you've even worried about just not being as naturally talented as the people
around you?
Excellence Through Mental Strength will not only dispel your concerns but will
also teach you how to reframe your perception of self. You're already more
capable than you realize, and this step-by-step guide will show you how to
recognize the true power of your strengths-so you can 'make the shift' into a
growth mindset and take back control of your future.
Never let your perceived 'weakness' into the driver's seat of your life again.
Bolster your mental strengths instead and pave the road you want to travel with
grounded confidence in who you are, where you're going, and what you bring to
the table.
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Excerpt:
How you manage your attention is at the heart of mental
strength. Like everything you learn, your ability to do so improves with
practice. Imagine the following: Katrina was having a lively conversation with
friends at the office. She wanted to buy a new car. One of her friends,
Charles, always opinionated, made a strongly worded recommendation: ‘Katrina,
based on your profile and personality, there’s only one car for you—A VW Golf!’
On the way home, a curious thing happened. Generally uninterested in cars,
Katrina began to notice VW Golf ’s in the traffic. The traffic was slow. It was
as if all the other vehicles were just vehicles. Cars, vans, SUVs blurred into
a mass of noisy movement. This was the mass migration of rush-hour. However, VW
Golfs kept showing up, on her left, in front, just a little to the right, in
her rear-view mirror. Gray ones, blue ones, old models, new ones. The traffic
steadily seemed to become a river full of 25 VW Golfs. She even noticed one
parked at a strip mall, another getting its gas refilled. As she arrived at her
driveway, she noticed that even her next door neighbor had a VW Golf.
Previously, it had been just a ‘car’. She took this as an omen and bought one
the next Saturday. ; Katrina was amazed by what happened because she’s not
aware of how the brain works. The brain is largely a giant filtering machine.
It maintains focus by eliminating what you don’t want to notice so you can
focus on what you do. If this wasn’t so, we’d live in a state of perpetual
confusion.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Lionel
Baugh Born: 5/25/53 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nationality: British/US Citizen
Education: Trinity College, Dublin University Lives in: Solis, Uruguay Speak:
Both English and Spanish, without preference. I’m an executive coach. In 2009,
I completed a long career in financial services and made a life changing and
comprehensive career shift. My banking career had a lot of diversity to it. I
enjoyed assignments in New York, Lima, Manila, Hong Kong, Oslo, San
Antonio-Texas, and Miami. Professionally that took me through commercial
banking to capital markets and eventually to wealth management. In 2008, I left
Merrill Lynch, and by early 2009, I was certified as a business coach. This
opened up a whole new world, unleashing a passionate desire to help people grow
and a fascination with what works in life. As my coaching career advanced, I
moved from business coaching to executive coaching, where most of my existing
practice lies. The fundamental difference is that executive coaching focuses
more on 143 behavior and mindset than on entrepreneurialism. Behavior and
mindset are where my passion lies. (Having said that, most entrepreneurial
success is also about mindset, but you do spend time on things like the
marketing strategy and the cash-flow forecast.) I became a sponge for learning
and have obtained certifications in Emotional Intelligence and in the Red2Blue
mindset model. I have read too many books to number or list, and the subjects
range from psychology to therapy to emotional intelligence, agility, and
self-awareness to mindfulness, stoicism, and more recently, anything I can
learn about performance under pressure. My ‘why’ is sustained by a strong
belief that everyone has excellence in them. I’m curious to discover each
person’s unique ‘hidden genius’. I’m very motivated to help identify that
excellence, polish it, and display it to the world in all its splendor. I have
clients throughout the Americas and the UK whom I coach via Zoom. I also do
frequent webinars and in-person workshops.
Amazon buy link: https://www.amazon.com/Excellence-through-Mental-Strength-Lionel/dp/B0BY4CR8LY/
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