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How Can You Develop A Success Mindset?
How Can You Develop A Success Mindset?
If you’re interested in achieving more with your life, then you might have read a few self-help books.
And if you’ve done that, then there’s a good chance you will have come across the phrase ‘success mindset’. But what exactly does this mean?
And is it really possible to start achieving more in your life, simply by changing your mindset? Let’s take a closer look…
What Does A Success Mindset Entail?
The success mindset, as the name suggests, is the type of mindset and set of beliefs that will set you on track to accomplish more. This is the set of beliefs, the attitude and the conviction that is required to really go out there and get what you want in life.
And yes, it really is the mindset that is the most important factor here.
Think about those people in your life and in the media who are highly successful and effective. What is different about them compared with everyone else? There are possibly a few factors but the most important things are:
- A) They know exactly what they want out of life, exactly where their passions are and exactly who they are
- B) They have the unstoppable energy and determination to go out there and make it happen
Let’s take a look at Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson for example. This is a guy who has accomplished incredible things in multiple fields and what is it that helped him get there? The fact that he is willing to put in absolutely insane amounts of work. If you follow him on Instagram, you’ll constantly be greeted by pictures of him training in the gym at 4am before full days of shooting. Where does he get that energy? He gets it from his passion.
Can you ever imagine a sullen Rock? And can you imagine that a sullen version of his persona would have gotten to where he is today?
How To Get There
So that is what it means to have a ‘success mindset’ and hopefully, it has also given you a big clue as to what you need to do to get there. In order to have a successful mindset, you need to find your passion and know yourself.
As well as being focused on success, you also need to develop a positive mindset as this will help you to keep on going to achieve the success you want.
When you can do that, then suddenly everything is going to fall seamlessly into place. You’ll find you have plenty of energy when you truly love whatever it is you do!
Use Your Daily Goals To Help Develop A Growth Mindset
What is your goal in life? For some it is to get into shape. For some it is to get rich. For others, it is to see the world.
Now what is your daily goal?
This is a very different concept but actually the daily goal is far more important than the overarching goal – at least if you really want to achieve the things that you’re dreaming of. And why is that?
Goals Are Often Too Vague
The big issue is that for many of us, our goals are much too broad and much too vague. Even if you have a ‘specific target’ like losing 5 stone in a year, this is still much too broad and vague.
Losing that amount of weight is not entirely within your control. There’s lots you can do to increase or decrease your chances of success and of course you’re mostly responsible… but there are other factors at play here too like your health and like your metabolism.
What’s more, having a goal that is so far away can actually make it all too easy to cheat. You know you have a year to lose the weight, so what does it matter if you eat a bit of cake today?
And it makes it easy to get disheartened too – when you get 6 months in and realize that you’re actually heavier than you were before.
Daily Goals Fix All That
But daily goals fix all that. Start with a vision – a very abstract vision of what you want – and then break that down into the smallest possible steps that you can execute every day or every week.
In the case of losing weight, your goal might be to eat no more than 1,800 calories a day, or to go for at least a 10-minute run every day. That’s a small goal but it’s perfect for sticking to because it is completely within your control.
If you don’t manage to run just that little bit, then you only have yourself to blame. There are no excuses to be made – it’s pass or fail. But at least tomorrow you can try again.
And guess what? If you keep accomplishing those smaller daily goals, they eventually add up. Eventually, you manage that big goal.
And the same goes for every other type of objective too. The best way to earn money is to build a business a little every day. And the best way to write a novel, is to write a page every night!
Top Five Challenges Of Creating A Winning Mindset
‘Create a success mindset’ they say.
‘Just go after the things you want in life’ they say!
‘Take risks’ they say…
It’s a shame it’s not always that easy right? The road to a success mindset is one wrought with obstacles and many of these are things that nobody likes to talk about. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
It’s time we addressed them…
Here are the top five challenges of creating a success mindset:
You Don’t Know What You Want
This is a surprisingly common issue and one that rarely gets brought up.
How can you go after what makes you happy if you don’t really know what that is? How can you find a goal and stick to it when you fear commitment?
You must have clarity about what you want and have some idea of how to achieve them or you will probably never even get started.
Having Weird Aims
Or perhaps you do know what you want in life, but your aims are just too weird or unattainable?
What if you don’t want to start a business, travel or start a family. What if you want to be an acrobat? And you’re 60?
What if everyone will laugh at you? Who cares; it’s your life and it’s up to you to do what is best for you regardless of the opinions of others.
Being Conflicted
Or how about being torn between travelling and settling down with the person you love?
What if your heart is genuinely pulling you in two different directions?
What if going after your dream, means saying goodbye to people you love, or turning your back on the things that made you who you are?
This can be really difficult, but it is something tat is probably going to be unavoidable as you grow.
Being Honest With Yourself
We are prideful creatures, and our very psychology is wired in such a way as to protect our fragile egos.
We don’t want to admit to our failures, and we don’t want to feel like we’re going backward.
And so when we realize that we’re unhappy with what we have in life, it can be very hard for us to be honest and admit that – to ourselves or to others!
Responsibility To Others
It’s easy to say that you should take a leap and apologise later but what if people are really relying on you to be mature and stable? What if your goal is to go travelling but your wife just got pregnant?
Yes, there are ways around this too – you can explain how important this is to you and convince her to come with you. But it won’t always work. And at the end of the day, you’re always going to be giving your child a less stable home.
There are answers to all these problems of course – but just know that the path isn’t as simple as some would have you believe!
As you can appreciate, changing the way you think can have a huge impact on your life, and if you want to know more about developing a good mindset for success, please click on the featured resource below for a free Strong Mindset report; download, read it and take action 😊
Ten Tips To Set Your Mind Up For Success
Ten Tips To Set Your Mind Up For Success
I’m sure that you all know that the way you think can have a dramatic impact on how you live your life. Developing a growth mindset should be a priority if you really want to get the best out of life.
Want to give your mindset a kick up the backside and put it into 5th gear?
These ten tips will help you shift your paradigm into a success mindset.
Here goes…
1 View failure as a learning opportunity
Don’t view failure as a crushing defeat but rather as a chance to learn and to come back stronger!
2 View obstacles as challenges
Likewise, try to view problems as challenges to be overcome. This will just make your victory all the sweeter.
3 Don’t choose between two things
When trying to choose between two things that you really want, the best answer is always to find a way that you can make them both happen.
4 Don’t let others define your success
Too many of us have one set view of what success looks like and we struggle to see it in any other way.
Success is doing whatever it is that makes you happy. Don’t worry if that just so happens to make other people raise their eyebrows!
5 Invest in yourself
Investing in yourself is the most important way to start achieving more. This is the best way to spend money and the best way to spend time. Develop your skills, buy a suit and fix that hair!
6 Act like you’ve already won
Acting like you’ve already won is the best way to empower yourself to be stronger and more successful. When you do this, you give off an aura of success that makes others gravitate to you!
7 Know yourself
Know yourself and be honest about what you want, who you are and what your strengths and weaknesses are.
8 Avoid toxic people
Avoid the people in your life who are constantly telling you what you can’t do, who are making you feel bad about your dreams…
9 Surround yourself with positive people
Likewise, surround yourself with positive people and surround yourself with people who share your vision and can help it grow!
10 Do what you are most passionate about
The simplest way to be successful in life, is to put more effort it. That means being willing to get up earlier, to work harder and to work smarter toward that goal.
But this shouldn’t feel like work. Why? Because it should be something that you absolutely love. Spending your life working hard on something you don’t care about is a waste and when you find your passion, you’ll find it unlocks boundless energy and enthusiasm.
These ten tips should come in really handy to set up your mind for success, but can this stuff really help you change your life? Let’s find out…
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life
A lot of people claim they know the secret to success. They will claim it is motivation, ambitiousness, positivity, conscientiousness and all sorts of other abstract nouns.
However they are missing the true vital ingredient, the real key that will get you started on the road to success to begin with: desire.
If you want to be successful, especially as a business owner, you need that entrepreneurial mindset that will set you on fire to do whatever it takes to succeed, and to enjoy the process too.
It Comes From Within
It is obvious really, but if you are going to be successful in any area of your life then you need to want to be successful and develop a positive mindset and attitude. It does not matter how hard working you are, how much time you spend at work, but if you do not particularly want to climb to the top it just will not happen.
Anything along these lines is a competition essentially, and if you do not truly desire success then you’ll still be going against a whole lot of people who do. You cannot really have motivation without desire, but even if you could, where would you be directing that motivation?
It is desire that will help you keep your eye on the prize and act as the motivator as you put in more time after work or come up with complex plans on how to woo the guy/gal of your dreams. And the more you desire something the more you’ll work to get it.
And as you do you’ll find that you subconsciously even help to navigate through the mire of challenges and that the world just kind of steps out of the way.
Of course not all desire will work. Firstly your desire needs to be realistic, and secondly your desire needs to be concrete. A desire to fly for example probably is only going to end with disappointment unless you are from Krypton, and a desire to ‘be more successful’ is an abstract aim that’s really quite subjective.
How To Find Your Desire
Some people though do not seem to have any desire at all however, and these people can be quite aimless in their lives. They aren’t going to progress because they do not know how they want to progress, and they do not know what they want from life.
The thing is though, everyone has something they want, it is just a matter of finding out what it is.
If you are struggling to know what your desire is, then think of your life now as it is. Now think of how it could be improved. Now think of how your life would look if you had everything the way you want it. That’s pretty desirable right?
Maybe you have got a big house and kids, or a small house and great artistic job, or you are a movie star, or a high-flying businessman. Now you know what your desires are, write them down and break them down into smaller steps and priorities. Suddenly you have direction and motivation. Good luck!
So now you are changing your destiny by harnessing the power of your mind. Everything is going well until you start running into criticism and the way you deal with that is really important.
How To Turn Negative Feedback Into Positive Results
Having a success mindset means taking risks and it means putting yourself out there. It means taking chances and being willing to fail.
And when you do all that, you’ll find that sometimes you do fail. Sometimes people laugh at you. Sometimes you lose a lot of money.
And this can hurt a lot. Sometimes, it feels as though you will never be successful, and that other people seem to have it all figured out. But let’s take a step back for a moment.
Because most of the successful people you know and most of the successful people in the media were unsuccessful at some point. And they have been in exactly the same position as you – having tried and failed.
The only difference between those people and the ones you never hear about, is that they got back up, they shrugged off the criticisms and they went for it anyway.
And if you dig a little deeper, nearly every ‘success story’ is actually made up of a thousand little failures, rejections and humiliations. Look at JK Rowling who had her book rejected countless times before it made her into one of the richest people on the planet. Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger who was told that he could never be a movie star with his thick accent and physique.
And yet.
The key to remember is that you’re at a point in your story where there’s challenge and upheaval but if you take this in your stride, it will actually make you stronger.
When you receive criticisms from others, what do you do? Do you curl up in a ball and cry about it? Or do you decide that you’re going to learn from their critique and take it on board. Next time, they won’t be able to make that same criticism!
And when you fail and lose your money, do you give up on starting your own business? Or do you make a note of everything that you did wrong and then endeavour not to make those same mistakes again?
This is the difference between successful people and the rest of us. You must start developing a success growth mindset today. And look at it this way: if you treat every single failure as a chance to get better, then every single time you try, you will slightly increase your chances of winning big.
And that means that if you continue trying, the odds will eventually be stacked in your favor!
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7 Simple Habits To Stay Positive
Life throws challenges at us daily, and in the increasingly hectic pace of life, you need to work on positivity. This doesn’t mean you have to spend all day reading a self-help book.
Instead, you can use tiny habits daily to build up your positive mindset.
Being positive may sound a little esoteric and you may think, “How can this make my life better/make me more successful…?” but the way you think has an enormous impact on how you view and live life and this in turn will definitely have an impact on how successful you are.
By focusing on the positive aspects of life, you will become more happy, more content and probably more willing to take risks than you would be otherwise.
And you will also tend to attract similar people to you which helps to reinforce your positive attitude; people who will support you and pick you up when you fall down. Whereas negative people delight in pointing out your faults to make themselves feel better.
So, are you now beginning to appreciate the power of having a positive mindset?
If the answer is yes, here are seven simple habits you can start with today to boost your positivity.
Manage Your Words Wisely
Words and how you use them are essential to your mental well-being and the ability to stay positive.
Frequently throughout the day, you need to monitor if a negative thought comes into your head or you actually state something negative about yourself.
Work on finding the times you are triggered to think this way and then change the words you are using.
For example, if you are saying to yourself, “I’ve studied for two hours and still don’t get it, maybe I am not smart enough,” you need to rephrase that. Try saying, “I will change the way I study and come at this when I am fresh. It may take a bit longer, but I can do this.”
When you find yourself being very negative all day, it is helpful to write down what you said and go back to see why you would say that. Then look for ways to change that phrasing to a positive and keep working on it.
Manage People Wisely
People will make mistakes, and sometimes it is too easy to be critical of them.
When you need to speak to someone about an issue, take a pause first; your first reaction is rarely the best, so think before you speak!
Think about how you can approach this and give them a solution at the same time. We all need teamwork, whether it is family or work situations.
Great coaches come with solutions rather than constant complaining.
Manage Rejection Wisely
Rejection is part of life. Everyone gets rejected multiple times during their life. Adopt the belief that rejection is a chance to learn and grow.
An author who has never been rejected is scarce. In fact, even the most prolific authors were rejected multiple times in their careers.
When you are hit with rejection, take the time to ask yourself what you can learn from the experience. Is there something you need to change to make you a better person? Always look for the gold in a rejection moment.
Fear of failure is normally a fear of rejection and can be a real hurdle to overcome, so by thinking of them as opportunities to grow rather than insurmountable obstacles will help you a lot.
Be Grateful
The poison arrows of rejection, stress, and depression will always try to pierce your heart. You must deflect these negative issues as much as possible.
One of the surest ways to work on this is by using a gratitude journal. If you are a spiritual person or a person of faith, you can start your day with a prayer of thanks to God for all that you have. What about your health, your family, partner etc.?
When you pause and consider all the great things in your life (and everybody has a lot to be thankful for), the negative loses much of its power over you. Write down everything you are grateful for, no matter how small it is.
Try asking yourself a few powerful questions in the morning to put you in a positive state.
For example: “What am I most happy about in my life right now? What about that makes me happy? How does that make me feel?”
Or “What am I really excited about in my life right now? What about that/why does that make me feel excited? How does that make me feel?”
Thinks how great answering these questions can make you feel in the morning!
Even the act of waking up in the morning is something you should be thankful for as you have been granted another day to be the best you can be.
Be Joyful
Bringing joy to others will rebound back to you. Just the simple act of smiling and seeing someone’s face light up from this simple gesture will fill you with positive feelings.
So many of us are too busy to deal with other people so when you make the effort the rewards can be so uplifting.
Try it today. When you walk past a stranger in the street, smile and say hello and see what reaction you get; it might just make your day. Simple but effective.
Stop Comparing
Too many people watch television and wish they had the life of the rich and famous.
They have no concept of what is happening in the lives of those they admire so much. When you stop comparing yourself to others and revel in the bright star that you are, it increases your positivity.
Fame and fortune do not always account to happiness. Look at famous celebrities like Marilyn Monroe or John Belushi who were huge stars in their day but they both decided to take their own lives when they appeared to have everything; don’t be fooled by outward appearances!
Declutter
Starting today, if you do not make your bed right after you wake up, begin this habit. It will give you a boost of satisfaction, and then you will be more apt to engage in cleaning up after yourself throughout the day.
Decluttering your space at home and work on a daily basis makes you feel great.
When you let things slide, you become anxious or stressed at the mess that has accumulated.
Stay positive by staying on your daily chores and considering decluttering your digital space daily for even more positivity boosts.
OK, so there are seven quick habits that you can use to boost your positivity today.
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What Is A Success Mindset And How Can You Have One?
If you’re interested in achieving more with your life, then you have probably read your fair share of self-help books. And if you’ve done that, then there’s a good chance you will have come across the phrase ‘success mindset’.
But what exactly does this mean? And is it really possible to start achieving more in your life, simply by changing your mindset?
The answer is a resounding “Yes!” and many people have done so and gone on to achieve great things in their lives.
So, with that being said, let’s take a closer look…
What Does A Success Mindset Entail?
The success mindset, as the name suggests, is the type of mindset and set of beliefs that will set you on track to accomplish more.
This is the set of beliefs, the attitude and the conviction that is required to really go out there and get what you want in life.
And yes, it really is the mindset that is the most important factor here.
Think about those people in your life and in the media who are highly successful and effective. What is different about them compared with everyone else? There are possibly a few factors but the most important things are:
- A) They know exactly what they want out of life, exactly where their passions are and exactly who they are
- B) They have the unstoppable energy and determination to go out there and make it happen
Let’s take a look at Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson for example. This is a guy who has accomplished incredible things in multiple fields and what is it that helped him get there? The fact that he is willing to put in absolutely insane amounts of work.
If you follow him on Instagram, you’ll constantly be greeted by pictures of him training in the gym at 4am before full days of shooting. Where does he get that energy? He gets it from his passion.
Can you ever imagine a sullen Rock? And can you imagine that a sullen version of his persona would have gotten to where he is today?
So, the first step to building a mindset for success is to define what it means to succeed, for you.
Setting goals for yourself makes it easier to come up with a plan of action to achieve your ambitions and will motivate you to carry out that plan.
You also need to maintain a positive attitude to life. Never underestimate the power of focusing on the positive in any given situation (and there is always something positive you can focus on).
Positivity and having a plan will help you to develop a success mindset but it isn’t the full story because you also have to take action on your plan and this is where many people fail because they don’t actually put their plan into action.
You must take responsibility for your own destiny; nobody else can do it for you, so make you plan, take action and stay positive if and when you come across any obstacles. Do this and you can have a real success mindset.
So that is basically what it means to have a ‘success mindset’ and hopefully, it has also given you a big clue as to what you need to do to get there. In order to have a successful mindset, you need to find your passion and know yourself.
When you can do that, then suddenly everything is going to fall seamlessly into place. You’ll find you have plenty of energy when you truly love whatever it is you do!
Of course, not everything always goes to plan and if or when things do go wrong you need to be able to turn any kind of negative experience into a positive one so let’s take a deeper look at that now…
How To Turn Negative Feedback Into Positive Results
Having a success mindset means taking risks and it means putting yourself out there. It means taking chances and being willing to fail.
And when you do all that, you’ll find that sometimes you do fail. Sometimes people laugh at you. Sometimes you lose a lot of money.
And this can hurt a lot. Sometimes, it feels as though you will never be successful, and that other people seem to have it all figured out. But let’s take a step back for a moment.
Because most of the successful people you know and most of the successful people in the media were unsuccessful at some point. And they have been in exactly the same position as you – having tried and failed.
The only difference between those people and the ones you never hear about, is that they got back up, they shrugged off the criticisms and they went for it anyway.
And if you dig a little deeper, nearly every ‘success story’ is actually made up of a thousand little failures, rejections and humiliations.
Look at JK Rowling who had her book rejected countless times before it made her into one of the richest people on the planet.
Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger who was told that he could never be a movie star with his thick accent and physique.
And yet, look at them now…
The key to remember is that you’re at a point in your story where there’s challenge and upheaval but if you take this in your stride, it will actually make you stronger.
When you receive criticisms from others, what do you do? Do you curl up in a ball and cry about it? Or do you decide that you’re going to learn from their critique and take it on board. Next time, they won’t be able to make that same criticism!
And when you fail and lose your money, do you give up on starting your own business? Or do you make a note of everything that you did wrong and then endeavour not to make those same mistakes again?
This is the difference between successful people and the rest of us. And look at it this way: if you treat every single failure as a chance to get better, then every single time you try, you will slightly increase your chances of winning big.
And that means that if you continue trying, the odds will eventually be stacked in your favor!
If you want to know more about this topic, please read this post here, plus you can also click on the featured resource below to get a free report on how to develop a strong mindset. Download, it read and take action 🙂
7 Habits That Lead To A Strong Success Mindset
If you want to succeed at anything in life, not many people will realise that the first step to success starts between their ears with what they think because what and how they think will determine how they act in a certain situation and if you don’t have an abundance mindset and the accompanying habits, your chances of success will certainly be much less than someone who does think this way.
To get what you want, whether it’s in your personal or professional life, you have to learn to do what works. For most people, this means creating a habit. But a habit isn’t something that never changes.
A success habit is always evolving.
1 – Make sure what you want is really what you want
Don’t do something just because you should. Check in with yourself every 30 days to make sure that the path you’re on is the one you want to stay on.
Doing this prevents you from ending up with business models that don’t satisfy you.
Make sure you’re not abandoning something out of fear of failure. There’s a big difference between doing what’s right for you and doing something that feels easier.
2 – Begin every day with motivation
These are things that work to get you to take the next step. For example, if you need to go for a run to clear your head and get some time to think, then do that.
If you need to use specific habits every morning in order to get into the flow, then let those habits be what compel you to get into your day.
Starting off with motivational reminders is like eating breakfast in the morning – it helps fuel you throughout your day. You also want to spend a minute or two looking back over your day and being proud of what you did accomplish.
3 – Don’t chase success to the point that you stop dreaming
Your success begins with an idea, a hope – a dream. If you go all out, driving hard, keeping your nose to the grindstone, you can reach the point where your mindset becomes fixed.
All you can see is the end result rather than the journey. Remember that on your way to getting what you define as success, you will never have these days filled with learning curves again.
Sometimes it becomes a chore to just blast through a task list – especially if you forget about why you’re doing everything.
If your goal is to live on the beach in a nice home, make sure your routinely revisit those plans to keep you inspired with your action taking.
4 – Make sure you leave room to grow
You need to have a success mindset that keeps you learning even when you feel you’ve made it.
There’s always something else that you can learn.
Seek out new resources online, book, new niche leaders who teach things from a different perspective – anything that helps round your education out.
5 – Answer to someone else
You want to have someone in your life that you’re accountable to. Make time to meet with someone who can help keep you on track for reaching your success.
You want this person to be someone who can tell you when you’re driving yourself too hard and someone who can help steer you around pitfalls.
Sometimes you won’t have a specific person in your life capable of doing that. You can turn to a paid life coach or even join a forum of like-minded, positive individuals all striving for their own success.
6 – Learn to trust yourself
When you go after what you want in life, there will always be someone waiting to tell you that something is either a good idea or a bad idea.
Everyone has a built-in alarm that will sound if something is off.
You’ll feel it as knots in the pit of your stomach or as a sense of unease. When you begin trusting yourself in these situations, it helps you develop a sense of self-confidence and strength.
7 – Understand that roadblocks are going to happen
You have to determine ahead of time that you won’t give up – you won’t surrender a growth mindset to a fixed one. Roadblocks can often be used as character builders.
They can strengthen your resolve and help you learn to become more resourceful as you find another way to do what you want to get done. If you become too comfortable with your efforts, you often don’t achieve the ultimate success that you’re after.
Having a strong mindset in life, whether for your personal or professional satisfaction, requires a combination of positive thoughts and verifiable action steps.
Whenever you do something that you start to feel a bit of shame over (like quitting on a project), ask yourself if you’re doing it because you don’t believe enough in yourself to succeed.
If that ends up being the case, take the task and break it up into micro-sized mini goals that you can work on to see if you’re capable of making progress that way. Sometimes, it’s the simple fact that a project seems too big that ruins many of the best plans.
It’s also a good idea to surround yourself with action-taking, positive people. Take inventory of the kinds of people you’re currently surrounded with. Do they always complain about everything?
Do you find yourself commiserating with people stuck in the same boat as you? If so, jump out and swim to shore – because that boat is sinking fast, and you don’t want to be swallowed up by the pity party they’re throwing for themselves.
Seek out motivational experts whose thoughts align with what you find inspiring. Tune in to their messages or read their books daily as if you’re taking a vitamin designed to prevent illness.
Over time, you’re going to become someone who others look to for support, and you’ll notice they come to you with fixed mindsets. They’ll be attracted to the positivity you project. Make sure you turn their mind around, rather than letting their limited thoughts infect you.
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