Over the past several months, I have been privileged to be involved with an innovative leadership business development group called TEAM.  My choice to get involved with a leadership development group, I’m sure is not unlike most others in the business professional world, or even those involved in life coaching/mentoring: you wanted to get better at what you do currently.

I quite frankly wanted to be better in several key areas that I knew I was lacking. 1. Purpose  2. Planning 3. My People Skills

I started noticing several years back that I was working extremely hard at my job, but I was feeling frustrated and was running around like a crazy person.  I wanted to stand out; change what I had unintentionally branded myself. To give you a picture, imagine a somewhat brash energetic mid-20’s young professional, working hard, but lacking focus.  

I was involved in networking organizations and work related training, but nothing seemed to really give me the power to take control, and actually work on improving areas where I was lacking.  I would start something for awhile do really well then fall back into old habits.  So last year I was happy when my friend invited me to check out the LIFE leadership development program and the TEAM organization.

There are so many different products that the LIFE organization offers, from personal and leadership development, along with life coaching, and Christian based spiritual development. For the purpose of starting this blog, I wanted to start off by talking about the Mental Fitness Challenge©. This is one of the LIFE organization's flagship products. It has inspired me to follow through on my idea of starting a blog, which I started and didn’t follow through with last year.

I have always enjoyed learning, and I was blessed with a love for reading. So, after coming to the realization that I needed a program to help me with my areas of weakness, I started the Mental Fitness Challenge© as a way to develop habits in those areas where I was lacking.

I’m almost done with my 90 days into the challenge, and all I have to say is WOW. What I love about this product is it mirrors some of the stuff my company does already. What makes it unique is that it personalizes to help individuals develop self resolutions. This is something I had never participated in before in a leadership development program.  It is something though that some of the great minds in the past have always done, so I was excited to try it.

The program also helps by giving you 360 feedback from peers on what they think are your strengths and weaknesses. I was shocked at some of the feedback, which goes to show sometimes we don’t know where we have issues.

I would encourage everyone to take the 90 day mental fitness challenge and let me know how it has affected your life!