Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
November 9th, 2018 Tags: Dexter Montgomery, leadership, mindset, Pamela Montgomery, transformation
Posted in Mindset
Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
Shifting your mindset for prosperity and success may sound daunting. However, by practicing a few habits you can begin transforming your life.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a prosperous and successful entrepreneur? Do you wonder what prosperous and successful entrepreneurs do or know that makes them so different from everyone else?
As you know, entrepreneurs are different from everyone else because we get to make the rules we live by. The trouble is, however, that many entrepreneurs still live by rules that others make. These rules often do not work well and keep them from prosperity and success.
Today I want to share with you what I have learned from being in business for several years and from talking to dozens of my colleagues. To become a prosperous and successful entrepreneur I had to learn to enlarge my capacity and change the habits that no longer worked for me. My colleagues had to make the same changes. We had to begin shifting our mindset for prosperity and success.
Here are 7 mindset practices that Dexter and I, and other successful entrepreneurs use to replace those old habits that kept us stuck. Once you begin to practice these new habits, you find yourself shifting your mindset for prosperity and success.
1. Use Affirmations Effectively
To begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success, learn to use affirmations effectively.
If affirmations have not worked for you in the past, consider the fact that you may be investing your energy and hope into (1) unrealistic ones you do not really believe in or (2) generic affirmations that are too vague and broad-ranging.
The key to making affirmations effective is two-fold:
• Be specific. Take your affirmation from pie-in-the-sky platitude to something you can achieve.
• Make sure you believe in the message.
Anyone can say: “I am a millionaire right now.” But that is not really an affirmation. That is wishful thinking.
On the other hand, telling yourself daily, “I have a millionaire mindset” can be a powerful boost to your confidence and outlook, if you pair it with a plan of action.
2. Change your Perspective
The next habit to develop as you begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success is to change your perspective.
Are you a “glass-half-empty” person? If so, call yourself on these negative, doom-and-gloom self-messages. Say,“Oops, that’s a glass-half-empty thought. Let’s turn this around and transform this thought into glass-half-full.”
It may feel contrived and your heart may not be in this little exercise at first, if you have been undergoing stress or challenges in your business or personal life. But if you persevere, you will soon discover that deliberately changing glass-half-empty thoughts to glass-half-full ones increases:
• Gratitude
• Empowerment
• Optimism
• Proactivity
Ultimately you will achieve prosperity and success as you develop the habit of changing your perspective!
Reframe Your Negative Thoughts
3. Reframe Negative Thoughts
Shifting your mindset for prosperity and success, involves learning to reframe negative thoughts.
The damage may be done. A negative family environment or significant relationship may have left you with poor self-esteem or poor processing habits. Or perhaps the damage was caused by that toxic company you worked at for twenty years.
But no matter what caused you to adopt an “I’m doomed, I may as well give up” attitude. You can make the decision to change that thinking today.
You can begin to making a mindset shift for prosperity and success.
One successful technique that psychologists use is called “re-framing”. This is how it works:
• Take a negative, habitual thought
• Filter it in an objective manner through the light of reality
• Replace your negative thought with a positive but realistic, corrected version.
You can do this with any type of thought,business or personal. For example, change “I always fail” with, “I am successful. Sometimes I may make mistakes, but I learn from them.”
4. Avoid “All-or-Nothing” Thinking
One highly destructive self-talk is known in psychological circles as “all-or-nothing thinking”. To ensure you do not do it, watch out particularly for the words “always” or “never” in self-talk: For example, “I always fail at everything I do” or “I’ll never learn how to do write sales copy”.
All-or-nothing thinking is just another way of beating yourself up, and strips away both personal power and confidence.
If you catch yourself making an all-or-nothing statement, reframe it instantly to a more realistic, empowering thought.
For example, change your “all-or nothing” thinking to, “Lots of people learn how to write sales copy effectively. I can choose to outsource this. Or say to yourself, “I can just take my time, read instructions more carefully, and keep doing it until I get it right.”
Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
5. Avoid Making Every Setback a Catastrophe
Do you see every setback as a catastrophe? Is every setback that happens the end of the world? Do you say things like “my business is FINISHED” if your computer dies, instead of simply buying another one?
Yes, this is just another form of beating yourself up. Even if you do experience a disaster—for example, a power outage occurs, and you lose a graphics file you’ve been working on for hours—realize that in the large scheme of things, this is frustrating but not really the end of your world. Treat it as a learning experience. Example: “Next time I’ll remember to save that graphic at every step.”
6. Ask Yourself: “Will This Matter in Five Years?”
One of the best ways to train yourself out of doom-oriented thinking is to get into the habit of asking yourself, after each disaster, “Will this matter in five years?”
If the answer is “no, I won’t even remember it”, it’s not worth worrying about.
7. Focus On Serving Others
One of the best ways to begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success is to start focusing on serving others.
Our worst worries, fear and paralysis behaviors and mindsets occur when we are focused inward, thinking about ourselves.
Instead, focus on serving others. Think about how you are going to help the person who reads your next book. Or focus on how much it will help not just your client but other members of his team when you finish your project on time.
When you are focused on serving others, there is no room for worry.
Conclusion
As you begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success, you will begin to transform yourself and your business.
Remember that any transformation begins in your mind. See it. Believe it. Then you can achieve it.
Begin to practice these 7 mindset habits to experience prosperity and success in your life.
1. Use Affirmations Effectively
2. Change Your Perspective
3. Re-frame Negative Thoughts
4. Avoid “All or Nothing” Thinking
5. Avoid Making Every Set Back a Catastrophe
6. Ask Yourself: “Will it Matter in Five Years?”
7. Focus on Serving Others
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Pamela Montgomery
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