In today’s world of quick change and deteriorating values, its important to let go of your fixed and inflexible mindset and evolve to the adjusting mindset, where rather than face a wall every time, you make adjustments accept changes and surge ahead. Progress is truly a continuing process and we live today in state of chaos and change where our approach or route to adapt and adjust helps us find quick solutions to continue our rate of steady progress. This mindset helps us immensely in our careers but also in our personal lives. The adjusting mindset avoids friction which leads to lesser stress and better mental health and wellness.
The adjusting mindset’s essence is to always view change as a positive opportunity rather than a negative threat. This mindset is also known as a ’flux mindset’. Here to repeat again, change is not a trigger to end, but to accelerate. Leaders with the adjusting mindset know the reality that foretelling the future and thinking that all is under their control is like a mirage in the desert. They keep a close touch on the pulse of the market environment and changing customer trends or even new market entrants depending on their domain. They are like pilots who change their flight paths according to change in weather conditions.
Managing change in today’s world is similar to river rafting. Unforeseen and new obstacles keep hitting us along the way. Here are some basic steps to upgrade your current mindset to the adjusting mindset.
Measure your rigidity meter
Many of us are born rigid. Mental rigidity can be genetic or, a learned trait over years. The best way to identify your rigidity meter is to get together a group of trusted friends, well wishers and family. Have a deep chat in confidence with each person individually. Pick up their ratings and create an average rating which becomes then, your rigidity indicator. Sometimes rigidity is a perception you can create without knowing as well. Also ask each person what is it that is rigid that they see in you. Now its your turn to do real corrections through measures you take. But do keep going back to them periodically to gauge the change in your rigidity meter through honest feedback. Even if you see yourself really upgrading your mindset, it’s will encourage you to progress further.
Accept that anything takes its own way
You need to think deep and adapt to the fact that as much as we want to, we cannot predict the future as it takes its own shape. Therefore to even imagine that you can predict and control everything is just an illusion. Trends can help us arrive at just assumptions and postulates, but today even weather has gone beyond prediction and control. Once you accept flexibility it’s a great stride forward for you. The friction between you are right and I have always done it this way versus things going their way, will tend to create inner conflicts which will impede your progress path. Instead it’s better to approach life with an adjustable mindset and move forward gliding ahead with life. Remember, change is out of your control, but how you respond to it, is always up to you
Take care of small things, big things will take care of themselves
Actually if you look at it carefully the “new normal” means building our skills to adjust and adapt so that we may be ready for whatever life throws at us. Master your problem solving skills, by first doing a reality check and working out practical solutions. Taking care of your own self, treating yourself often to good and happy times actually helps you to build a natural response to accept and adjust. Follow your do list but also look back at your done list so that you can look back and see how far you have reached from where you first started. Create your own adjust heroes in your friends and family who are your role models to achieve the adjustment mindset and get inspired.
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
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