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Name: Relentless Solution Focus
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Author: Jason Selk and Ellen Reed

Jason Selk and Ellen Reed

Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance

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What’s in it for me? Discover how to unlock the power of a positive mindset.

Have you ever noticed how quickly negative thoughts and opinions creep in to dominate our minds and conversations? That’s because we, as humans, have a natural tendency to focus on problems. This tendency is so strong that it can even stop us from achieving our personal and professional goals.

What many of us fail to realize, however, is that this tendency is actually a symptom of mental weakness. And the only way to reverse it is to become mentally tough.

These blinks will show you how to adopt what the authors call the “Relentless Solution Focus” mindset. By doing so, you’ll be able to systematically redirect your thoughts to produce positive reflections and actions.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why it’s critical to keep our confidence high;
the benefits of an attack mentality; and
why it’s so important to celebrate little victories.

Cultivating the Relentless Solution Focus mindset can help us overcome our natural tendency to think negatively.

How easy is it for you to stay positive, especially when everything around you seems to be going wrong? Do you find it virtually impossible to win? If so, rest assured you’re not alone! That's just how human brains are wired to work – we automatically focus on problems. This is what the author describes as problem-centric thought, or PCT.

PCT is so natural that we’re usually unaware of our negativity. But this isn’t good for us. Negative thinking has harmful repercussions – it limits our potential and increases stress.

However, there is good news: we can fight back.

The key message here is: Cultivating the Relentless Solution Focus mindset can help us overcome our natural tendency to think negatively.

When we adopt the Relentless Solution Focus, or RSF, mindset, we learn to think about solutions instead of problems. At this point, you might be thinking that RSF is simply about being more optimistic. But actually, there’s a lot more to it than that. RSF helps us to see the good in our lives and focus on how we can improve our circumstances.

So how do we apply RSF? First off, we need to control our thoughts. Remember that our brains can only fully focus on one thing at a time. When challenges fill our minds, we’re unable to come up with potential solutions because we’re caught in a spiral of negativity. So instead of concentrating on the problem, we need to focus on the solution.

This process worked for one of the author’s former clients, called Justin. He was doing very well in his career, but it was affecting his family life; he wanted a better balance between the two. He quickly identified a solution: get to work an hour earlier every day. But it didn’t all go as smoothly as he’d hoped. It turned out he wasn’t a morning person, and it was a struggle for him to get up at 6:00 a.m. every day.

Rather than focusing on the struggle of getting up early, Justin decided to start identifying additional solutions. He told himself he had to learn to become a morning person. He decided to start going to bed early on work nights, giving himself some flexibility on the weekends. By adopting a Relentless Solution Focus mindset, Justin was able to proudly declare that he was a morning person six months later. And by getting to the office just one hour earlier, he achieved his goal of being able to leave work two hours earlier – with energy left to spend with his family.

To stop thinking about your problems, learn to identify and focus on solutions.

It’s often said that before we arrive at a solution, we need to fully understand the problem. But, in reality, this process is a myth and doesn’t usually work. This is because when we think about our problems too much, they expand and begin to dominate our thoughts. This often leads to cycles of negativity and the onset of problem-centric thought. So, instead of problems breeding solutions, focusing on problems usually produces even more problems.

The key message here is: To stop thinking about your problems, learn to identify and focus on solutions.

Use the RSF mindset to replace all your problem-focused thoughts with solution-focused alternatives.

If someone offered you a surefire guarantee to reduce your chances of getting cancer, heart disease, or a stroke, would you take it? Of course you would.

Well, it turns out that individuals with a Relentless Solution Focus mindset are scientifically proven to experience a significant increase in health, happiness, and success. Specifically, RSF decreases our likelihood of cancer by 16 percent, heart disease by 38 percent, and stroke by 39 percent. In addition, it can help you sleep better, make friends faster, and increase your chances of success.

Relieve yourself of negative thoughts by identifying a single thing you can do to make things better.

Control the things you can control, and don’t worry about the things you can’t.

At some point in your life, you may have received that advice. For example, we can’t control adversity. But we can control how we react to it. In fact, the real problem is often not the problem itself, but rather how we deal with it. That’s why focusing on solutions requires mental toughness. Relentlessly searching for those solutions is the master key to success.

The key to overcoming difficult problems is to divide them into small, manageable pieces.

You may have heard the idiom, Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves. In other words, keep track of your little victories; together, they add up to great successes in the long term.

However, we sometimes do the opposite. We become so absorbed in the big picture that we fail to recognize the smaller parts. As a result, our problems may appear overwhelming and unsolvable.

To successfully develop the RSF mindset, make a training and implementation strategy.

Do you know where you want to be in the next five years? And have you identified the two most important daily activities you should accomplish to get there?

It’s important to think through these questions; success is never accidental. To truly adopt the Relentless Solution Focus mindset, you’ll need to put in consistent effort. The best way to do this is to come up with a plan. Luckily, the authors have developed an equation that you can use within your plan: Vision + Integrity = Happiness. Filling in this equation with the specifics of your plan can help you to discover what’s most important.

Reject the perfectionist mentality by recognizing what you do well and what areas you’d like to improve upon.

When you complete a task, do you commend yourself for what you have done well, and perhaps analyze where you could improve? If so, this aligns perfectly with the RSF mindset. However, if you dismiss what you’ve done well and focus on your shortcomings, there’s probably some room for improvement.

Concentrating on shortcomings is symptomatic of a perfectionist mentality. This way of thinking often ends up with us not celebrating our achievements, no matter how small. Additionally, we perfectionists forget to remind ourselves that we can be successful. Ultimately, this diminishes our self-confidence, which in turn can affect our performance.

Use the Mental Workout to ensure that you’re mentally ready to attack and win on a daily basis.

We all know the importance of physical exercise. But did you know that the brain also needs exercise to remain healthy and perform at its best? In fact, this is crucial to fighting problem-centric thoughts.

One useful exercise is the authors’ “Mental Workout.” This was the first mental training tool of its kind used to teach athletes exactly how to maintain their mental toughness in high-stakes competitions. It’s like lifting weights – with your mind.

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Relentless Solution Focus (2021) shows how having a more optimistic mindset can transform our lives. Using a three-step process, the authors share insights, tools, and frameworks for developing the mental toughness needed to strip away our tendencies toward negativity.

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The more we focus on our problems, the more problems we have.

—Jason Selk and Ellen Reed

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Über den Autor

Jason Selk is a performance coach, licensed mental health professional, and former Director of Mental Training for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. He is the author of the best-selling books Executive Toughness and 10-minute Toughness.

Ellen Reed is a mental health consultant, performance coach, and mental toughness expert.

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