Story From Book: How a Fixed Mindset Limited My Success
The book launch for “Success Mindsets” is two weeks away. To highlight the launch, I want to share a personal story from my book about how having a fixed mindset limited my success. Then, at the end, I’ll add on something that I have learned since then that I wish I could go back and […]
The Power of Self-Talk in Shaping Mindsets
If I am being honest, I have an 8-year-old daughter with the following negative mindsets: Fixed mindset – She tends to see failure as a signal that she is a failure, thus she is rather unwilling to take on challenges Closed mindset – She tends to think that what she knows is best and is […]
How Do You Improve Your Mindsets?
Let me provide you with a really clear treatise on how you can improve your mindsets. First, what are your mindsets? At a basic level, our mindsets are the mental lenses that we wear that shape how we view the world. You see, when we encounter a situation, we are presented with thousands, if not […]
Making the Unconscious Conscious
We are going to start this article with a BANG! Sit on this quote for a minute or two: “Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”-Carl Jung Is your unconscious directing your life? Most likely, yes. But, the degree to which your unconscious is directing […]
What Mode Are You Living Life In: Protection or Creation?
More and more I am realizing that people operate in one of two modes: protection mode or creation mode. Which mode are you operating in? Protection Mode When someone is operating in protection mode, their primary desires and direction is fueled by a need to self-protect. Here are some typical protection mode desires: Pause here: […]
Are You Over-Exaggerating the Difficulty of Personal Transformation?
I have two pulled muscles: one physical and one emotional. I want to share my experience rehabbing both, and an important lesson I learned that has huge implications for our personal growth and development. When I work with individuals on improving their mindsets, I see two general reactions. First, and most common, is that they […]
What You Need to Know about Self-Awareness
Self-awareness expert, Tasha Eurich says that there are two types of people: She has found that 95% of people think they are self-aware, yet only 10-15% are really self-aware. This is led her to suggest that 80% of us are lying to ourselves about ourselves. In this post, I want to: What is Self-Awareness? Let […]
Have You Transformed?
Have you ever noticed that there are some people and leaders who stand out from others in a positive way? They seem to operate on a different, higher plane. It isn’t always easy to put your finger on what makes them different, but for whatever reason, they seem exceptionally productive, overly generous, and an overall […]
Break Free of Your Limitations to Soar to Your Potential
The level of the solution is never found at the level of the problem. Knowing this, you can escape many traps that people fall into. What exists at the level of the problem? Repetitive thinking that gets nowhere. Old conditioning that keeps applying yesterday’s outworn choices. Lots of obsessive thinking and stalled action. I could […]
Mindsets: The Key to Personal Development
If you were to Google “how to be an effective ______________________” (fill in the blank; leader, employee, parent, follower, fisherman), you will inevitably end up with a near-endless list of articles that resemble the following: Now, if you were to click on each of those articles and identify all of the unique aspects of what […]
