Give me 20 minutes to make you dangerously mentally strong (so you can achieve your goals) with Maya Raichoora | Future Self Series Ep.5

Hi, everyone.

I'm Maya Raichoora.

And thank you so much, Grace, for passing over the mic.

I'm so excited to be one of your cover teachers for this Future Self series.

If you have followed Working Hard for a while, you might already know me from previous episodes with Grace or from my own work as a visualization and mental fitness expert.

I've spent years studying how to train and rewire the mind so you can think, feel and perform the best you ever have.

Because isn't it crazy that more people are insecure about their body than their own character? We grew up placing so much importance on the physical body, learning how to train it and stay healthy.

So what about building total self-confidence or building your emotional intelligence or finding peace and calm in your mind and heart? As we build out this future self roadmap Grace introduced at the start of the series and reverse engineer our lives, we need to make sure our mental fitness is in check.

It's one of the key building blocks that everything else rests on.

You can have the clearest goals in the world, but if your inner world isn't strong enough, they'll fall apart the second things get hard.

So today I'm bringing mental tools that elite athletes, entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders are using so that you're getting access to secrets that are usually gate kept, but I'm giving it completely for free.

So grab a pen and paper to follow along and save these tips for later and let's get into it.

Okay.

So what exactly is mental fitness? You're probably familiar with the term mental health.

The mental fitness is actually quite different.

If we think about physical health and physical fitness, everyone has a physical health, right? It can be bad, it can be good, but you're only physically fit if you're going to the gym, maybe you're doing yoga, maybe you are going on a walk or running, dancing.

It's the active maintenance of good physical health.

Now, in the same way, if you have a mind, then you have a mental health.

It can be good, it can be bad, but being mentally fit is you actively training your brain so you can think better, feel better and perform better and therefore maintain a strong mental health.

And so this is important to distinguish because the question is, whilst we all go to the gym and we know how to train the body, are you training your mind? And in my opinion, this is the coolest and sexiest thing you can do for yourself because you don't have to be unwell, upset, heartbroken to invest in your mental fitness.

This is about, do you want to go through life achieving your goals? Do you want to reach your potential? Do you want to walk into a room and feel good about yourself? That is the crux of mental fitness.

And interestingly, if you look at the most successful people in sport, in business or leadership, the thing that differentiates the good from the exceptional is the mindset.

But the thing is, most of us have never been taught how to train it.

And I think that's the bit that gets missed the most in the self-improvement space, We're taught how to set goals, build habits, chase that productivity, but almost nobody teaches you how to manage the actual internal experience of being a person while you do all of that.

How you talk to yourself when you fail, how you handle fear before a big moment, how you see yourself when things aren't going to plan.