Website design By BotEap.comIt may look like a series of curveballs have been thrown at you, any one of which could stop a person in their tracks.

Website design By BotEap.comPerhaps you have experienced a near total loss of income because your job was cut or eliminated or you were laid off through no fault of your own.

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Website design By BotEap.comPerhaps you are or have been isolated from your friends and loved ones and are looking for new ways to stay connected. With dozens of ways to stay connected, it sounds strange that isolation is an issue. However, the problem of the quarantine is the change in the freedom of choice. Therefore, the loss of freedom of choice leads people to choose a sense of isolation as a way of coping as a mechanism.

Website design By BotEap.comDespite the unforeseen and unprecedented challenges one encounters in life, it can seem endless.

Website design By BotEap.comSome people are doing fine. They are adjusting to a revised schedule and way of doing things…and thriving.

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Website design By BotEap.comHow can you harness this secret to achieve the dreams you hold dear in the months and years to come, no matter what surprises are waiting just around the corner?

Website design By BotEap.comDiscover the secret: 5 steps to transform a fixed mindset into a growth mindset

Website design By BotEap.com1. Are you thinking about what you “must do” instead of what you “will accomplish”.

Website design By BotEap.comThe fixed negative mindset underlies your inability to change. See your features as fixed and unalterable. You’ve heard people (perhaps yourself) say something like “I’m a pessimist, I can’t help it.” Well guess what, you can! Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck says that by developing a growth mindset — the belief that your traits can be changed through deliberate practice — you set yourself up for success.

Website design By BotEap.com2: Learn to listen to your fixed mindset “internal dialogue.”

Website design By BotEap.comWhen you decide to tackle a new challenge, what is your internal dialogue? You might say, “Are you sure you can do it?” or “What if you fail?” “What will you do if you fail?”

If you hit a roadblock, you might hear, “If only I had talent” or “I told you it was too risky.” Because I?

Website design By BotEap.comEvery life and business coach knows about the inner dialogue spoiler. It’s the internal dialogue that undermines much of what we do; the inner critic who judges you and your work.

Website design By BotEap.comThe internal spoiler of the internal dialogue is the ‘fixed mindset’.

Website design By BotEap.comOnce you know you have a fixed mindset, you can anticipate the internal dialogue spoiler in advance. Then just listen to it. If you hear your spoiler talking to yourself, you can say “Cancel”. “Stop.”

Website design By BotEap.com3: Recognize that you have options.

Website design By BotEap.comYou can interpret self-talk in two different ways: Challenges, setbacks, and criticism can all be a sign that you have fixed talent and ability.

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Website design By BotEap.comThe first is obviously the fixed mindset; the second is growth oriented.

Website design By BotEap.comThe key here is to get out of the (fixed) judgment frame and into the arena of growth.

Website design By BotEap.com4: Talk to your negative inner critic in a growth mindset voice.

When approaching a challenge:

Website design By BotEap.comThe negative fixed mindset says “Are you sure you can do it? Maybe you don’t have the talent.”

Website design By BotEap.comThe growth mindset answers, “I’m not sure I can do it right now, but I know I can learn with time and effort.”

Website design By BotEap.comFixed Mindset: “What if you fail? You will be a failure”

Website design By BotEap.comGrowth mindset: “Most successful people had failures along the way.”

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Website design By BotEap.comFixed Negative Mindset: “This would have been easy if you really had talent.”

Website design By BotEap.comGrowth Mindset: “That’s so wrong. Basketball wasn’t easy for Michael Jordan and science wasn’t easy for Thomas Edison. They had passion and they worked really hard.

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Website design By BotEap.comFixed Negative Mindset: “It’s not my fault. It was something or someone else’s fault.”

Website design By BotEap.comGrowth mindset: “When I take responsibility, I can fix it. Let me listen, however painful, and learn what I can.”

Website design By BotEap.comWriting dialogue in a journal is very effective. There is something about writing that makes it easier to connect with your inner voice.

Website design By BotEap.comIn addition, it provides a record of the conversation. You can then review the dialogue and identify common patterns.

Website design By BotEap.com5: Take the growth mindset action.

Once you listen to negative fixed mindset self-talk and respond with growth mindset self-talk, then you will determine how to take the necessary steps that will lead to growth.

Website design By BotEap.comThis could include taking on a new challenge, learning from setbacks, persisting without exception, adjusting your actions based on feedback, etc.

Website design By BotEap.comNo matter what challenges you face: relationship problems, lack of money, unfulfilling job, health issues…

Website design By BotEap.comYour success or failure lies in your beliefs and thinking.

Website design By BotEap.comSome people have a mindset that keeps them trapped by their self-perceived or indoctrinated and conditioned limitations.

Website design By BotEap.comOther people have a mindset that helps them skillfully meet challenges and shake off setbacks or failures.

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“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the level of thinking that created them.” Einstein

Website design By BotEap.comEinstein reminds us that if a clear and easy solution to any problem you are facing is not apparent, you need to change the frequency of your thinking.

Website design By BotEap.comIn the final analysis, by adopting a growth mindset, the opportunities for more learning and success will be more visible, available, and ultimately more rewarding.

Website design By BotEap.comWhile it may not be completely natural at first, anyone can begin to adopt a growth mindset and create a meaningful and fulfilling life by taking consistent action.

Website design By BotEap.comYou can make the decision to start living a life of healthy growth today, as you begin to expand your consciousness and notice any fixed mindsets and/or scarcity mindsets that may arise.

Website design By BotEap.comUsing the actions mentioned above, you will be on a continuous journey towards success.