How to become mentally strong

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do By Amy Morin

A 23 years old young lady was recently graduated from college and had started her career as a psychotherapist. She was happily married with her lover, also she had managed to bought a house with her own money.

At the age of 23 what we call as success was totally achieved by the writer of the book "13 things mentally strong people don't do" Amy Morin.

But suddenly one day she got a phone call from her sister, her sister told her that her mother was found unconscious and she had been taken to the hospital. Amy and her husband rushed to the hospital. There the doctor told her that her mother had a brain stroke and she was no more. Her mother was completely ok the night before.
Naturally as Amy was very close to her mother, she was grief-stricken. As she was a psychotherapist she knew how to get out from that grief but still it took her a long time to recover. No sooner she had recovered from the grief of her mother's death than at the age of 26 her husband got a heart attack and passed away.

That 23 years old happy and successful lady, now at the age of 26 had become a widow who had lost her mother also. A few years later luckily Amy was able to find love in her life, and she got married for the second time. She sold her old house, and moved to a new house with her new family with a hope to start a fresh new life. But again after a few days her father in law was diagnosed with cancer.

Amy was broken by the repeatation of the same incident again and again. It came to her mind, "why is it happening with me again and again!" She was unwilling to face the same difficulty that she had to face for last two times.
So from the day, her father in law was diagnosed with cancer, she started to make a list of things that mentally strong people don't do. And in this way she was able to find 13 bad habits that mentally strong people always avoid practicing. She started to read them daily and prepared herself to become mentally strong. After a few days her father in law died, but this time Amy was able to recover very quickly by avoiding the 13 bad habits that she had listed.

So with just a thought that it may also help someone else like Amy, she published the article in a blog post over the internet. At the time of posting the article Amy had never imagined that the article would went viral and read by more than 50 million people.

So later to discuss about those 13 bad habits in details, she published the book "13 things mentally strong people don't do". And the book became international best selling book and was published world wide, getting translated into more than 30 languages.
So today I am going to share with you some smart ideas from this best selling book,