What does your Mindset say about your success?
Your Mindset is a simple term that is not only cliché but is also the only word in the English dictionary that can determine your path to success. It is your Mindset that leaves you in limbo.
Your Mindset means everything in the destination, where you are going and where you are. Your mindset is a set of values that shape how you make sense of the world and yourself. It influences how you think, feel, and behave in all factors of life.
So ask yourself, what is your current mindset at the moment – where have your beliefs and internal conversation got you too, and where are you going?
Because even the most successful people need to reimagine and retrain their brain if they want a different path.
“The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” ? Idowu Koyenikan
Ok, so think about this, the reason why you are still an employee or the reason why your business is not succeeding, is because you are not in the right mindset. And finally when you have the right mindset, your actions will determine your outcomes.
For example… Imagine you want to start a VA business and you are struggling to find clients, well the reason for this is because your expectation is that you are thinking clients will come to you, you have an employee mindset. You apply for a job and you wait for the call…right?? Well guess what, you need to start thinking like you are a CEO of your non-existent business. Because in your business you are the employer/CEO, so in reality you need to start thinking about what a CEO would do to grow the business, how would they find clients and what would they do to succeed.
Hint, a book to help: Climb Your Own Ladder: Become the CEO of Your Own Business by Dana Malstaff
Another example would be if you are a CEO, and you are thinking negatively about the business, refusing to change, refusing to grow, then the negative thoughts will then start reflecting in your business and then in your team members. As a result, your business suffers! And then you say to yourself “what happened”?
That being said, your mindset has to be full of the right thoughts so that you feel the right emotions, and ultimately make the right decisions to run a successful business.
Overcoming and knowing daily mindset traits is a good place to start and to adopt the right attitude and thoughts.
Here are 3 mindset traits to get you started:
Learning means growing
Think of it as an Apprenticeship to Entrepreneurship.
To have a successful attitude, you need to start learning, and start reading. Reading is the best method to hear success stories or steps to get your path moving. If you don’t read, then audible it is. What makes learning the best trait to have is the more learning you do changes your mindset from “I already know everything” to “I didn’t know that” or “what can I learn”.
Because the reality is the smartest and most successful people on the planet don’t have all the answers.
Education does not only mean that you attend university, get a degree and then you are the expert for life. The worst mindset is that we learn once and then we know everything. Newsflash, you actually probably know nothing then, because what you learn once is not going to set you up for life, but for a short period of time. We want long term growth, don’t we?
Expect never to grow if you aren’t learning. Knowledge means power, and with more knowledge comes results.
2. The making of thinking BIG!
Get this book: The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz
This book was written in 1959, so these principles are not something that has developed over the last 10 years.
The power of the right mindset is that you like thinking beyond your capacity of where you are now, and thinking that you could be better.
It is the small-minded thoughts that determine how small or how BIG your success is.
Now this isn’t about thinking big thoughts will always work, but it is making sure that your grand vision for the company is backed by determination.
If you think little and aren’t willing to challenge the status quo you will forever be stuck in the mindset of ‘why isn’t it working?’.
Think beyond the mundane, every day, normal business life. The enemy is we want an "average” business/life which then threatens to take away our hopes, dreams, and meaning in our lives.
Strive for excellence in everything you do. If you want something you've never had, you'll have to do something you've never done. Because when you think big thoughts, you will ultimately make the kind of big moves required to grow a successful company.
3. Mental conditioning – be in control of positive thoughts.
While most of us don’t believe it, we are all mentally conditioned to think and act a certain way.
This is a reflection of your past, your influences, or your friends and social media. It is a factor of science that when your brain was developing all those crazy and wild thoughts from the age of 3 years old, you are mentally training your brain to think a certain way.
Ask yourself, why do some CEOs have CEO parents, or why some kids at the age of 25 already have successful business. Most of this is mental conditioning, you are wired a certain way and only then and when you realise what needs to be done, you start to train your brain to think differently.
Complexity is not the answer either, if you make things more complex, more confusing to yourself, you complicate the process of growth and it will be more likely that your strategies in place will be less effective, then if you keep it simple.
The first step to a positive mindset, is realising when you are thinking negatively, be aware of the conditioning, and the reason why this happens.
Then start to ‘replace’ negative thoughts with the positive ones. The best way to do this is to listen to positive people or be around positive people. Join group forums, clubhouse groups or attend a network event.
It takes effort to control it, but once you do, your mindset starts to reflect your business direction.
You want to succeed? You will succeed? And nothing will stop you?
Did you believe these statements? Because it is possible if you just condition your brain to think like that.
The Bottom Line
There are probably another 10 examples that I could say to determine your mindset, but these are the basics and can be started now.
The number one reason why so many business ideas never get off the ground is because the business owner started with the wrong mindset.
Think of it like this: if you aren’t willing to change your mindset, then you will be in the same place you are now 1 year from now, or even 5 years from now.
So if you like what is happening to you, then don’t change and live the same life forever.
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