Mindset: the set of ways you choose to think and feel about things
Your mindset determines how you perceive the world. It’s internal.
- Subconscious mind and powers about 95% of how we behave
- Determined by asking questions
- Mindset stays with you unless you change it
- A positive mindset will help you reach your goals. A negative one will hold you back.
- Helps you to not focus on the things you can’t change, but rather focus on things you can create.
- Can be changed with practice and effort.
First get clear about your mindset
- Sometimes we develop mindsets from a place of fear
- Embrace your fears
- Embrace pain, failure, and disappointment
- Discover how you can use these “negative” feelings to learn from them
- Understand that you can still have joy while feeling these things
- Sometimes we develop mindsets from a place of desiring perfection
- Be kind to yourself and others
- Treat yourself and others well…because you’re both worth it
- Sometimes we develop mindsets because we don’t know any better
- Study and read books by people with positive mindsets
- Learn stories about people who have found joy after diversity
- Sometimes we develop mindsets from bad habits
- Challenge all of your negative thoughts
- Your negative thoughts are what develop stress and anxiety; your positive thoughts are what develops joy
- Negative thoughts do not help you prepare; uncertain ones do
- Train yourself to expect the good. Whether it happened or not, you stayed in a state of joy
- Sometimes we develop negative mindsets because it’s all we see
- Visualize joy
- You will start to see the world as open to your wildest dreams and a better life
- You will get what you expect
The characteristics associated with a positive mindset:
- Optimism: a willingness to make an effort and take a chance instead of assuming your efforts won’t pay off.
- Acceptance: acknowledging that things don’t always turn out how you want them to, but learning from your mistakes.
- Resilience: bouncing back from adversity, disappointment, and failure instead of giving up.
- Gratitude: actively, continuously appreciating the good things in your life
- Consciousness/Mindfulness: dedicating the mind to conscious awareness and enhancing the ability to focus.
- Integrity: the trait of being honorable, righteous, and straightforward, instead of deceitful and self-serving
https://positivepsychology.com/positive-mindset/