What is the hype around mindset and self-development anyway?

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” This is a quote attributed to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, although I couldn’t find a corresponding citation for the same. Regardless, this is the gist of what I want to discuss in this episode, the short answer to the question, ‘Why the fuss around mindset?’

So do you need to have awareness of mindset and indulge in self-development? No, not really. You can go on living a perfectly happy, satisfying life without ever diving into any of this. But if you are the kind of person who yearns for growth, who wants to explore your connection with yourself, with the people around you, with nature, and the possibilities that you can pursue in this lifetime, then you would not want to miss out on this. Becoming aware of your mindset further brings awareness to the why of how you’re operating in the world and thereafter pivot if need be. 

This series is titled ‘Mindset Magic for Aligned Action’, I want to break that down and bring it all together in this last episode. To me, mindset alignment is simply a practice which involves making the unconscious conscious by becoming aware of your patterns and identifying the reasons behind your actions to see if your current actions are moving you closer to where you want to go or farther away from it, and then recalibrating your mindset to be aligned with your goals and desires. Just a reminder from our discussions in the previous episodes, your current actions are stemming from your current mindset, which again is nothing but your existing perspective and belief systems.

Now coming back to the question posed at the beginning of this episode, ‘do you need to have awareness of mindset and indulge in self-development?’ And the answer remains no, you don’t need to do anything you don’t feel called to. But if you want that gift that keeps giving, that’s when you choose to dive into mindset and self-development.