Rebooting your learning and your own perspectives take you a long way ahead. This is the essence of sustainable growth and success. Mindset is really all about how your mind is set, as your mindset drives you in your decisions, the way you react to situations and creates your persona. It is understood that your basic persona consists of your values and beliefs which are formed from your childhood experiences, family upbringing and even genes! However sometimes to be better accepted you can actually change these core values and beliefs by changing your mindset, but to achieve this, you really need to start at the very beginning and understand your mindset better. – (Author)
Most people change from their existing mindset to a desired mindset to perform the work they have chosen to do, more efficiently and effectively. This column Destination Mindset with over 180 articles are focussed on various self-improvement mindsets. There is however a science to cultivate your desired mindset with real changes in your habits and behaviour.
Let’s look at some fundamental steps you need to understand your mindset better. Really first check you how you are wired and how do you tick!
Analyse your own mindset
Analyse your mindset means discovering the core beliefs and hidden assumptions that shape how you see the world and react to stress. Look at how you talk to yourself when things go wrong. Notice if you blame yourself or think you cannot change. Notice if you believe talent is something you are simply born with. A fixed mindset tells you that failure means you are not smart or capable. A growth mindset means you believe you can learn new skills with practice. You see hard tasks as a way to get better instead of a stop sign. -(Internet findings)
The simplest start is to do your own SWOT analysis, then list out what are the ways in which you are naturally wired, both the asset and liability habits/ behaviours. The next key step is to list out the top three of each positive or negative behaviours.
There you go, your core self-mirror is right in front of you.
Ratify your findings
Often our own perceptions of ourselves are wrong, therefore you need to ratify your top 3 positive and negative behaviour traits and habits. The most practical way to this is to create your own panel of trusted friends and family members and run this list past them. Even 10 such people are enough. The average of their inputs will show you the real picture you want to and need to see- (Author)
It’s very important that these findings are ranked in order of importance, because you will then get to figure out your priorities of change, to better yourself because as you know, change is the only hyper constant in the world today. Your top trait in positives becomes your cornerstone and your top trait in negatives becomes your major mindset threat!
Align these traits to your desired mindset
You would already be in a career path and a specialised domain. Curate your desired mindset professionally as well as personally. Who do you need to become to succeed better at work and similarly how do you become a better friend or a family member. Remember, cultivating mindsets makes life easier, reduces friction and improves alignment- (Author)
Your desired mindset becomes the road map of your life and you must put in a sincere effort to reap the tsunami of benefits this brings you. Let me take one or two simple examples. Say, you are inflexible by nature and rigid. Till you change this key mindset element, you will face endless impediments in any domain of work. Let’s say your mindset resists finance and yet your career focus is in the Finance domain.
Look at fitting your mindset to what you do. You will never look back!
“If you can build a muscle, you can build a mindset.” — Jay Shetty
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