{"id":739,"date":"2013-04-08T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2013-04-08T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T07:01:46","slug":"mental-toughness-the-key-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/mental-toughness-the-key-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Toughness..The Key to Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mental-Toughness-is-the-Key.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-474\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio-300x86.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Science, recorded history, the medical profession, common knowledge and understanding, and The Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that the human brain is not only the most important organ of the body, but also is the command post for all activities of the body.\u00a0 Simply put, you must have a brain or else nothing will work for you as it was originally designed and conceived by and with your Creator.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">The fact is that the rest of your body was created and attached to your cranium for one specific purpose and that was to <i>mobilize your brain.<\/i>\u00a0 An immobile brain serves little purpose or function.\u00a0 Activity must take place if effort is to be expended.\u00a0 Effort always precedes results.\u00a0 It follows then that if results are the end desire, production activity must first be implemented.\u00a0 Someone and something <i>must move!<\/i>\u00a0 The process of accomplishment is really not difficult.\u00a0 It goes something like this:\u00a0 No brain, no control center, no production activity, no effort, consequently no results.\u00a0 Pretty simple isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 That is the way Creator God does most all of his work&#8230;simple&#8230;That way anyone can do it.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Science and Psychologists tell us that the brain is a \u201cself-servo\u201d mechanism.\u00a0 That is a big word which means it primary use is to serve, assist, and benefit the person who possesses this brain.\u00a0 That would, of course, be you.\u00a0 Therefore, it follows that if God gave you a brain, and its purpose was to serve and assist\u00a0 you for your own benefit, then a person should at least be expected to learn about his own brain and how best to develop and use it.\u00a0 In so doing it would be he, himself, who would receive the greatest blessings, rewards, and benefits from his\u00a0 own brain\u2019s performance.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Let me take it a step further for you.\u00a0 You, as a human being, are a product of your own mental environment.\u00a0 That environment is established primarily from two separate and distinct things:\u00a0 (1) <i>The Books You Read <\/i>and (2)<i> The People With Whom You Associate.\u00a0 <\/i>My personal advice to you is that you make absolutely certain that you carefully choose the good high quality people and the similar high quality content of what you allow into your mind through all of your\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">other physical senses.\u00a0 These two areas of your life are what governs and controls your thoughts, deeds, and actions.\u00a0 Remember, what you put into your mental environment is the very same thing that you will take back out of it.\u00a0 And whatever you take out of your mental environment is what will show up in your activities and their related consequences.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">God\u2019s Holy Word emphatically tells us that we will get back exactly that which we first give out.\u00a0 Specifically the Bible says in The Book of Luke, Chapter 6, verse 38\u00a0 NKJV:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u201cGive, and it will be given to you:\u00a0 good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom.\u00a0 For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Now that is God\u2019s Promise to you and me.\u00a0 I choose to believe it.\u00a0 I choose to stand on it. \u00a0 Because I want good and beneficial rewards and blessings from God in my life, then I must insure that such are the things that I am giving out to all other people with whom I am dealing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">The old computer term GIGO means \u201cgarbage in&#8230;garbage out.\u201d\u00a0 I want good and valuable and gracious blessings and benefits flooding into my life,&#8230;how about you?\u00a0 To insure that happens, I must first be willing to pour those type things into the lives of other folks.\u00a0 Doing so is a total choice on my part.\u00a0 I can only control my part,&#8230;not the other folk\u2019s part.\u00a0 Have you ever heard the sound advice to only worry about and care about taking care of yourself and your own activities?\u00a0 God promises that if we will take care of ourselves and love and serve other people, then we will all receive His blessings and benefits.\u00a0 I believe that and choose to stand on it!<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">You see, friends, we know that we are supposed to do good and great deeds with our lives. We know we are supposed to give of ourselves, to love and help our fellow man, and to lighten the burden of our fellow travelers, but knowing to do such things and then actually doing them seem to be two different situations or scenarios.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Now we have established that the human brain is the entity in control of all our thoughts, decisions and activities.\u00a0 Therefore, we had better understand our own brain and how it works.\u00a0 The brain is the communication link by and between earthly man and Creator God.\u00a0 Good, positive and creative thoughts all originate from our Creator.\u00a0 He then gives them on into our own minds.\u00a0 We always need to be sensitive to His thoughts and ideas and act accordingly on them as soon as we receive them.\u00a0 We are to always be obedient to the leading of the Lord.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Mental toughness is being just that&#8230;obedient to proper thoughts, ideas, concepts, and leadings from our God that He sends into our own minds.\u00a0 Because of our God-given conscience, we innately know what is right and what is wrong.\u00a0 If you desire blessings, abundance, and benefits to be sent into your life, then mental toughness had best be exercised on your part.\u00a0 Remember, there is no right way to do the wrong thing.\u00a0 To reap a great blessing or reward you need to always do the right and honorable thing.\u00a0 And you need to do it with total honesty and integrity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">In God\u2019s eyes,&#8230;Right always begats more Right.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Mental toughness always eliminates or restricts wrong thoughts deeds or actions.\u00a0 Mental toughness always limits or disables distractions or other things that try to derail or postpone us from doing the right and honorable thing.\u00a0 Mental toughness is the strength from which we draw to stay steady at the task until the job is completed,&#8230;until the job is done.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">If you want to be victorious, if you want to achieve great and glorious results from your expended efforts, if you want to have God\u2019s blessings flooded over you and your family, then just make certain you are mentally tough.\u00a0 Here is how you do it:<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">1.\u00a0 \u00a0 First know exactly What you and your spouse, if you are married,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0want and When you want to receive it. Aways set a date.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">2.\u00a0 Then you must decide what price you are willing to pay (what you\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">are\u00a0 willing to Give Up) to get what you say that you want.\u00a0 Always<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0be willing to pay full price.\u00a0 There is no bargain basement pricing<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0when it comes to the price of success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">3.\u00a0 After that, you must do whatever it takes to begin to regularly\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">associate with other <\/span><i style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Successful People<\/i><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"> who are able and willing to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">help you get what it is that you say that you want.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">4.\u00a0 Finally you need to have a proven Plan that will generate sufficient<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0income from your efforts of working that plan to enable you to<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0convert your desires into reality.\u00a0 In other words, you need to Plan\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Your Work, and then Work Your Plan.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Now that four-step plan of achievement is not so difficult is it?\u00a0 No, I should say not at all.\u00a0 But it must be implemented and completed <i>by<\/i> <i>you,<\/i> if you expect to receive the desires and rewards that it will produce. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">You see, my friends, The Key, always has been and always will be YOU.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Become mentally tough and watch the desires of your heart start becoming realities in your life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Peace and love to all of you&#8230;&#8230;Poppa Bear<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science, recorded history, the medical profession, common knowledge and understanding, and The Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that the human brain is not only the most important organ of the body, but also is the command post for &hellip; 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