Having the right mindset is the second step of being able to transform your life. With the right mindset, you’re able to learn anything and take on any challenge that comes your way.
Luckily, this page contains the best ideas & top research on how get in the right mindset. We will break down the science between mastering your mind. Whether you’re looking to grow your personality & intellect, this page should cover everything you need to know.
I. Growth Mindset: The Obstacle Is The Way
II. Self-Awareness: You’re The Easiest Person To Fool
III. Mindfulness: Living In The Moment
IV: Limiting Beliefs: Believing The Unbelievable
I. Growth Mindset: The Obstacle Is The Way
There are consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something that is fixed. Rather than believe your mind cannot change, you can embrace what is known as a growth mindset. A grown mindset is the mindset that your intelligence and personality can be developed.
A Passion for Learning
By believing that through having a good strategy and a little hard work, you can learn anything. Being deeply engaged with the process of learning is how you grow as an individual. Trying new strategies, seeking help from others, and learning from setbacks are how you ultimately learn.
By embodying a passion for learning, you’re able to take risks you normally wouldn’t because you have a desire to grow. You’re fully committed to learn and improve everyday and nothing will keep you from doing just that.
Setbacks are Speedbumps
Every failure is an opportunity to learn from. You’re not afraid of failure. Rather, you’re willing to fail because you know it’s the only way you can grow. You use failure as feedback, and embrace it because it gives you a richer sense of who you aspire to be.
Failing fast and often is how you become successful. This is known as failing forward. You can use your failure as a means to propel you towards success. Failure is an essential part of your process, and your success is impossible without it.
Rewarding Work
As you progress forward, you’ll see positive outcomes. This is a product of having a strategy and putting effort into it. When you start to see the outcomes you desire come to fruition, you need to celebrate them.
Never celebrate work that feels unproductive or counterintuitive to your vision. Do however celebrate work that is part of the productive process leading you one step closer to your future identity.
II. Self-Awareness: You’re The Easiest Person To Fool
The first principle to self-awareness is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. You have to be careful about that because after you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool others. You have to be honest in a conventional way and live your life like a normal human being.
Your Inner World
Many of us can go about our lives without giving our inner self any thought, but rather by just thinking, feeling, and doing as we normally would. We can however focus our attention on our inner self.
We can give additional thought to whether we are thinking, feeling, and doing as we normally are, or we can evaluate against our personal philosophy which are our standards and values, also known as our personal compass.
Outside Looking In
Asking how family, close friends, and even peers can help you dial in the outside perspective to your personal philosophy. Some things may end up surprising you that you were consciously not aware of.
Although you shouldn’t take any one person’s word as the truth, it helps you shape your personal philosophy and future identity towards your actuality today. This gives you a comprehensive view of yourself.
Knowing What You Want
Having a good understanding of yourself both from the inside and outside will help you know what you truly want. There’s no more “I don’t know.”, but rather you are self-aware enough to know exactly how to take agency and become an authority of yourself.
You’re now able to take responsibility for making what you want happen & you’re constantly looking for ways to become more self-aware than you are today.
III. Mindfulness: Living In The Moment
Mindfulness is the ability to generate self-awareness in the moment. By practicing mindfulness, you’re taking control of your mind by processing each thought one at a time and deciding how you want to feel.
Past, Present, and Future
There are certain thoughts that will benefit you more than others. Thinking back in the past can keep you stuck in the past. Continuously looking too far ahead can keep you dreaming. There is a sweet spot of the thoughts that will serve you, and that is thoughts that are in the present.
The present is neither the past nor future, it is the now. It is what is on your mind as you read through this page. It’s the distractions that occupy your mind rent-free. Being able to process present thoughts with an empty mind is the goal.
The Empty Mind
Your mind works best when it is empty. Your thoughts have room to make new connections and come up with creative solutions. To have a mind like water, you must first get everything on your mind out of your head and somewhere you can reference it later.
You can practice by collecting what has your attention and writing it down. Next, you can process what you wrote down to determine when you can reasonably act upon it next. Third, you can organize it so it’s not forgotten or lost. Finally, you can simply just do.
Locus of Control
There is a locus of control to what you can and cannot control in your life. An internal locus of control is where you have the most influence. You make things happen rather than wait for things to happen to you.
The opposite is an external locus of control. This is where you have the least influence. Things will happen to you whether you like it or not. You ultimately get to choose how you feel about these things, and mastering how you feel is how you take back your locus of control.
IV: Limiting Beliefs: Believing The Unbelievable
Everyone lives a lie in their life. You may have been told at a young age that you’ll never account to something, so you never actually try to do the thing. These are limiting beliefs that are rooted deep inside us and when we become aware of them, we can believe in the unbelievable.
Living In Lies
All of your life you may have believed you couldn’t do something because whenever you tried to do it, you would fail miserably or somebody else told you that you weren’t capable. These are lies that you chose to believe at some point in your life.
You don’t have to choose to live in these lies. You can instead challenge these lies and in most cases, prove yourself wrong. You can do this by first raising your standards of what you’re willing to settle for.
Raise Your Standards
Now that you’re aware that you’ve limited yourself in the past, you can now raise your standards of your belief. What this means is that you get to choose what your threshold of your new belief will be. You and only you get to decide this.
Your goal is to raise your standards on everything you believed was a lie in your past. This pushes you challenge your assumption and make daily progress to overcome your existing threshold.
A Sense of Certainty
Crossing your existing threshold holds immense power. You’ll start to feel a new sense of certainty for your beliefs. If you can cross the chasm for one thing, there’s potential to do it for everything. You’re no longer stuck with limiting beliefs, but rather are faced a new challenge.
Your challenge is now developing a sense for mastering your mind. You’ll be able to accomplish this by learning the inner workings with associating pain and pleasure, having successful experiences, regularly going into flow state, and embracing discomfort.