text: Chapter 9
  9-7. Mental readiness is required to achieve capabilities the Army must possess to win in multi-domain
  operations. These capabilities include, but are not limited to—
  * Train Soldiers and leaders to ensure they are prepared to accomplish the mission across the range
  of military operations while operating in complex environments against determined and adaptive
  enemy organizations.
  * Develop resilient Soldiers, adaptive leaders, and cohesive teams committed to the Army
  professional ethic who can accomplish the mission in environments of uncertainty and persistent
  danger.
  * Develop agile, adaptive, and innovative leaders who thrive in conditions of uncertainty and chaos,
  and are capable of visualizing, describing, directing, leading, and assessing operations in complex
  environments and against adaptive enemies.
  * Understand, visualize, describe, direct, lead, and assess operations consistent with the philosophy
  of mission command to seize the initiative over the enemy and accomplish the mission across the
  range of military operations.
  MENTAL READINESS CAPABILITIES
  9-8. Mental readiness includes three interrelated capabilities—cognitive, emotional and interpersonal. Just
  as physical readiness requires training and integration of a variety of components (for example, muscular
  endurance, muscular strength, balance, flexibility, and agility), optimizing mental readiness requires the
  training and integration of a variety of capabilities. See figure 9-1.
  Figure 9-1. Mental readiness capabilities
  9-9. One approach to developing mental readiness capabilities involves using the Goal, Plan, Do, Check
  strategy. Leaders can use the strategy to coordinate mental readiness capability development in a variety of
  circumstances.
  9-10. Goals are established by the Soldier in collaboration with the mental readiness experts on the H2F
  performance team. Goals are specific to a task. Goals must be clearly articulated using the SMART
  principles—S for specific, M for measurable, A for attainable, R for relevant, and T for the time period in
  which the goal must be attained.
  9-11. Leaders develop plans to accomplish the goal. The plan consists of the way a Soldier will be coached—
  the tactics, techniques, and procedures used to promote or optimize the development of the mental capability.
  These are individualized for the Soldier.
  9-12. Doing the plan is the action or actions taken by the Soldier and the team to achieve the goal. The doing
  part of the strategy involves teaching, training, practice, and implementation.