Improvement Series: Week 3 - Changing Your Mindset

 Whether You Think You Can Or You Cant, You're Right

-Henry Ford

Welcome to the October edition of the Straight Up Mindset Blog. This months series is the Improvement Series. Week one's topic was over Self-Awareness. Week two we talked about Breaking Bad Habits. This weeks topic is over Changing Your Mindset




This is the most over looked area when it comes to self improvement. Whether a person wants to improve their health, career, relationships....etc. Everyone seems to start on the outer stuff and neglect their mindset. The body does what the mind tells it to do, this applies to all areas in life. The quote above by Henry Ford is so true. However you look at a situation good or bad, what you think is what the outcome will be. It's that simple and  it comes down to whether or not you believe in your abilities. 

I was listening to a Michael Jackson song "Man In The Mirror" and to be honest I have never really paid attention to the lyrics until one day in my car I happen to catch what he was saying. The main part of the chorus is "I'm starting with the Man In The Mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change." I have been listening to that song for years and for some reason those lyrics are just now getting to me. The point of the song is if you want to make a change in the first place you need to start with yourself. You have to completely reprogram your mind to start thinking in a different way. A perfect example is when I was younger  I didn't like the thought of change and having to adapt to whatever the situation required. I liked to stay in my little bubble and just be safe and comfortable with the known. Being uncomfortable and not knowing what's up ahead scared me down to the bone. 

I even contemplated on quitting a job because they were going to promote me and I didn't think I would be able to do the job and succeed. Can you believe that?? Who have you ever heard quitting a job because they were scared of success? I doubt many if at all any, but that was my mindset at the time. So scared of change, I found a million and one excuses of why I shouldn't take it. I approached a lot of situations like this because my mindset was in a bad place. It was at the point I knew I needed to do something about it and I did. What I did was I flipped the situation around and instead of thinking what if I fail, What if I completely just fall on my face and let everyone down. I started to ask myself, What if I succeed? What if I knocked this thing out of the park and take the bull by the horns. Now my whole outlook changed, my demeanor changed, my approach changed and the result was I did succeed. 

I started to take that approach towards everything I came face to face with. I'm not saying that I won every single battle. Trust me I have the scars to prove that but the percentage of the battles that I did win increased and my progressions always moved upwards. All it took was for me to think differently and approach things differently. I didn't always know what I was doing, I didn't always have it together. Many times I'm scared out of my mind and don't have a clue as to how I'm going to make it through but eventually I figure it out and majority of the time it works out.

So to make a long story short just remember, "If you want to make a change you got to start with yourself." You have to have a different mindset. You will not always have the answers upfront, you wont always win every challenge but you will prevail. You have to believe you can and the outcome will work in your favor. You heard us say this on our last 30 Day Challenge Video, "You Win Some, You Learn Some". Meaning you will fail but the lessons that you get out of those failures will make you a stronger and wiser person.

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