Katherine Chambers > Quotes

“The mind cannot differentiate between past, present and future events with regards to imagery in the mind. If you attached enough emotional context and feeling to what you are playing in your minds eye I.e. a past memory or projected future event, the body elicits exactly the same biochemical response, as if that experience was happening right now. It’s a clever trick which can convince the mind into believing that you have already achieved these things. The subconscious will then go to work in serving up additional and similar opportunities to bring into your physical reality.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Do you view yourself as a strong person? If you do, then you most likely are, its as simple as that. Everything is linked to self-image, personality, drive, levels of happiness and so on. You will naturally behave in the way you see yourself.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Mental toughness is many things. Its humility, as it behooves us all to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness, and meekness is the sign of true strength” (Vince Lombardi)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Its better to laugh at life than to lament over it”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die” as the Buddha points out.”
― Katherine Chambers, Confidence & Self-Love Secrets: 4 Manuscripts - Jealousy, Self-Esteem For Women, Self-Compassion, Mental Toughness

“A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or even worse, to avoid trouble” (Mahatma Gandhi)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“It should be clear by now that I believe mental imagery to be a key factor in determining mental toughness. In fact, your own perception of yourself will dictate all of your subsequent behaviors, as well as what you’ll get out of life. You can’t do anything without a lot of psychological stress, when this image isn’t aligned with the picture you have in your mind. This will largely be a consequence of your past programming and environmental experiences.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Chapter 7: Visualization - Mental Imagery IS Mental Toughness “Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body” (Lynn Jennings)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“medical studies, that every part of the human body works more efficiently when a person is happy. Eye sight, hearing, sensitivity to touch all improve. In addition to the minds problem solving ability, all of which are increased when mood is up-regulated. Being happy is therefore the most beneficial state to be in, not just from an ethical standpoint, but a mental health one too.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears” (Laird Hamilton)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Chapter 6: Goal Setting Secrets”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Self-control, managing these disruptive feelings and impulses as best you can i.e. not letting them overtake your entire thinking. Trustworthiness, I touched on this within the self-awareness section but having a guide to maintain standards of integrity and honesty can be particularly important. Acting ethically and authentically will help a person to better self-regulate their emotions from the outset. Holding yourself to these high principled standards automatically eradicates most emotions of fear, guilt and general self loathing before they even arise making them much easier to manage if they do appear. Conscientiousness, i.e. the ability to take responsibility for your own actions and performance. Being held accountable for meeting the objective a person sets out for themselves and being organized and careful about their work. Adaptability, the ability to adapt and be flexible when emotions arise is also fairly critical. It will allow a person to more smoothly handle a situation, especially one of high pressure or shifting priorities. They will be able to adapt their responses and situational tactics to better fit a fluid environment. Innovation, this is more about being open and even seeking new and novel ideas. It’s about entertaining an original problem but exploring a variety of sources of information and even coming up with new ideas and fresh perspectives in thinking for solving current problems.”
― Katherine Chambers, Emotional Intelligence: A Psychologist’s Guide to Master the Emotional Tools and Self-Awareness Skills For Success – Why EQ Beats IQ in Life

“One of the main reasons we feel stressed is simply because we take things too seriously. We have to learn to look at situations in their proper context. Many times, what we see as an insurmountable problem, will look much less serious after a good night’s sleep, or after letting some time pass. Remember that only one thing can be worked on at any one moment. So if you have to put something off until tomorrow, then do so without the feeling of resentment or guilt. And don’t forget, we can always choose to laugh and release tension, it goes a long way.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Thoughts and feelings of jealously for another person or fear of performing a task is really just your ego trying to keep your preconceived notions about the world intact and keep you operating within your comfort zone.”
― Katherine Chambers, Emotional Intelligence: A Psychologist’s Guide to Master the Emotional Tools and Self-Awareness Skills For Success – Why EQ Beats IQ in Life

“In a psychological sense, this now fits perfectly with what I’m getting at, and what our real world observations indicate. It takes a wise and strong character to prosper, someone who has the potential to be dangerous, but chooses not to be. Someone who is mentally strong, but chooses to exercise restraint. Those who understand that they can’t control everything in their environment, only their own emotions and reactions to things. But in truth, that’s all that matters, as that’s all you can effect.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Long Term Projects (5-10 years)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Hardships strengthen the mind as work does the body”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“There are two distinct components here: Emotional awareness in general, as to say the ability to recognize your own emotions and the effects they have over you. Self-confidence and sureness about your self-worth, self-esteem and capabilities in general.”
― Katherine Chambers, Emotional Intelligence: A Psychologist’s Guide to Master the Emotional Tools and Self-Awareness Skills For Success – Why EQ Beats IQ in Life

“Take care how you speak to yourself, because you are listening” (Anonymous)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“As long as you are alive, continue learning how to live”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“For example, if you are trying to learn a new skill, but buying books in order to achieve this is not inspiring you enough to study the material then changing over to online classes may inspire you to better effect.”
― Katherine Chambers, How to Analyze People: A Psychologist’s Guide to Master the Art of Speed Reading Anyone, Through Psychological Techniques & Body Language Analysis

“Physical strength measures WHAT you can do. Mental strength measures whether you’ll actually do it” (Tim Grover)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Like Goleman, many researchers believe that this initial self-awareness component is the most critical to the E.I. process in general as it dictates all other aspects and subsequent branches of the model going forward.”
― Katherine Chambers, Emotional Intelligence: A Psychologist’s Guide to Master the Emotional Tools and Self-Awareness Skills For Success – Why EQ Beats IQ in Life

“In this sense, its far better to split goal setting up into two segments, the near term vs the long term, as both categorizes require a different mode of thinking to complete”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Short Term Targets (1-3 months)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“The Fortune Teller vs The Forecaster Another reason you shouldn't be putting exact figures and time-frames on these larger goals, is again due to limitations of the human brain.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“There once was an old farmer who worked his crops with the aid of a trusty horse. One day the horse ran away, and the villagers lamented “What bad luck that is!”. The Zen master simply replied “We’ll see”. The following day the horse returns, bringing with it three additional wild horses. To which the villagers cheered “How wonderful!”. The Zen master once again replied “We’ll see”. A week later the farmer gives one of the horses to his son as a gift on his sixteenth birthday. The villagers reply, "Oh, how lovely, the boy got a horse!" 
The Zen master says, "We'll see.”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“A women is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water” (Eleanor Roosevelt)”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“It’s very difficult to quantify these things entirely. Exactly how much money constitutes being “extremely wealthy”? What position do you hold in what company? Exactly how many children, grandchildren are you going to have? The mind works with images and emotions regarding these instances. A far better strategy for longer term goals is to create a picture or movie in your mind about what these things would look like. How do you look and feel once you have achieved these things? What are you wearing? What car are you driving? How does your posture now look?”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand

“Jesus states “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth”. This very much sounds like the weak, harmless, and timid will eventually come out on top. But how can this be?”
― Katherine Chambers, Mental Toughness: A Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming Psychologically Strong - Develop Resilience, Self-Discipline & Willpower on Demand