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/