What is mindset?

What do we mean when we talk about mindset alignment, or when we talk about mindset reframing?

Something is and it exists. That is a fact. Something happened and that happened is a fact. But how do we look at it, that is to say, that, how we react to it, what our emotion around an incident or a series of events is, is what constitutes our mindset. Mindset is nothing but a collection of our perceptions, it is simply how we choose to look at something, at everything.

Mindset alignment and reframing our mindset is a tool to take us from where we are to where we want to be. It is to get us from point A to Point B. And we get to define what point A and B mean to us, and what it looks like.

When you really think about it, everything is a matter of perception. So then the question becomes, how do we change our perception to move us from where we are to where we want to be? Whenever we look at anything, anything said or done, any situation or event, it is not good or bad, it just is. Things simply are, and our perceptions around those things add meaning to the thing itself.

So the question then becomes having what mindset serves us to get us from where we are (our current reality) to where we want to be (our desired reality)? And what doesn’t serve us in our growth journey of getting closer to our dreams, our aspirations, our goals? If our perceptions alone add meaning to things, then how can shifting our perception shift our reality?