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I'm your host, Sean Croxon to Sean Croxon.com.

It's Throwback Thursday and we are turning back that clock all the episode number 845 in our feature speaker, Amy Morin. Today, Amy is talking about being mentally strong and how in order to be mentally strong, you have to break the bad habits that are keeping you from

having that strength. And she's also going to discuss how making small changes, how changing

these little habits can give you the confidence to keep going so you can change another and

another and another. And over time, as you know, little by little, a little can become a lot.

Amy Morin's coming up.

My journey taught me that the secret to being mentally strong is that you have to give up your bad

mental habits.

Mental strength is a lot like physical strength. If you wanted to be

physically strong, you'd need to go to the gym and lift weights. But if you really

wanted to see results, you'd also have to give up eating junk food. Mental strength

is the same. If you want to be mentally strong, you need good habits like practicing gratitude.

But you also have to give up bad habits like resenting somebody else's success. No matter how often

that happens, it'll hold you back. So how do you train your brain to think differently?

How do you give up those bad mental habits that you've carried around with you?

It starts by countering those unhealthy beliefs that I talked about with healthier ones.

For example, unhealthy beliefs about ourselves mostly come about because we're uncomfortable with our feelings.

Feeling sad or hurt or angry or scared, those things are all uncomfortable.

So we go to great lengths to avoid that discomfort.

We try to escape it by doing things like hosting a pity party.

And although that's a temporary distraction, it just prolongs the pain.

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