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Growth Mindset - The Choice is Yours

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” Seneca

A lot of what I write about here is summed up in that quote above, it’s also focused highly around driving a “growth mindset” in life.

Creating harmony in your life so that you can achieve great things that others may deem outside your reach, and finding that drive to move beyond the regularity of life to accomplish something outstanding..... or many outstanding things, choice is yours. 

You’ve likely heard about the term “growth mindset”.

Growth mindset is constantly being in a state of learning and growing with the notion that your hard work, your persistence, and your grit is the only thing standing in the way of your ability to achieve great things in life. Those that achieve amazing things are not simply born more talented or skilled, they work hard for it. You have to truly love learning and become resilient in the face of what the world throws at you. 

It’s very important to understand what this means. Not necessarily because you will run out and entirely change how you think, act, and what you accomplish, it is important in order to understand your opportunities in life to really drive this thought process in yourself. It is essentially that, a thought process on how you respond in life and ultimately what you end up accomplishing.

Do you view challenges as opportunities for learning, developing, or growing? Do you face your weaknesses with the thought of exposing them, making them less weak, and ultimately mastering them?  Do you live in a state of vulnerability, really putting yourself out there to show your weakness cards in order to play a better hand going forward? Do you dare to venture to the unknown, to move it beyond difficult to a state of natural comfort?

You don’t have to change everything, simply understand this notion and start incorporating it into your life. Start thinking differently about your own abilities. Think you can’t live a life of harmony or balance, think you can’t run a marathon, think you can’t get that next career opportunity, think certain doors are shut for you..... well I’m sorry but you’re wrong. 

For the marathon, I did this full on. Whether you frequently run marathons, you’ve only done one, or never tried one before, it takes a lot of grit, determination, resilience, and the thought that you can accomplish this great feat in the face of what’s to come in kilometres 30 to 42.2. From the time I signed up, actually from the thought of even signing up to run a marathon on 11 weeks of training, I needed to have a growth mindset in there somewhere. I needed to face the challenge as an opportunity to get in better shape, complete something epic, and safely get across that finish line. You don’t simply decide to sign up without believing you can do it, but believing and being positive is not enough. I needed to believe I had it in me to put in the hard work required and that I’d face the difficulties along the way, put in more hard work if needed.

Your mindset plays the biggest part whether or not you can/will achieve great things in life. Constantly seeking to grow by exposing what is uncomfortable and forcing yourself to lean in for your own greater good. Facing the facts that you have weaknesses, we all do, and that you can change them will make for a really great story to tell, or you’ll end of moving onto the next challenge and forget about this one all together.

The choice is all yours for what your accomplishments look like.


DadBud

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