Achieving A Growth Mindset For The Entrepreneur ✔
Steps to Achieve Growth Mindset - There is never an end to our own self-improvement.
Getting ahead in life and business seems to take more than a good idea and a bit of tenacity. You need to believe you can succeed and strive to improve yourself to improve your chances continuously.
You won’t do it overnight, and you won’t do it alone. But you can do it. Developing and honing your growth mindset is the belief that you can always build on and improve your abilities.
Change Your Inner Voice
We all have fears, whether in our personal lives or careers, especially when it comes to the unknown. But never trying means, you will never know. Understand that failing is an actual failure. It's merely an attempt.
Too often, we talk ourselves out of doing something because we are afraid we won't do it well. You won't know until you do, so tell yourself to do it anyhow.
Learn From Your Failures
When you try something, and it doesn't go as expected, make a point of understanding why. Don't take it as a failure, just another step to finding a better way. If we aren't afraid, we are stuck in our safety zone, and that's all that is. You will never grow from behind that safety net.
The only failure is not trying at all. One of the greatest assets to your growth is not being afraid to fail. Because trying is not falling. It's an opportunity to find a better way.
Never Stop Learning
There is always something new to learn, whether it is directly related to your business or not. Never stop reading and expanding your knowledge, especially when it comes to your business.
Be the expert at what you do, even if other's are doing it differently. The more you know the better you will be. You can't improve without keeping up with what is coming up.
Don't Compare Yourself to Others
Whether it is in business or life, focus on your way. Don't worry if someone else doesn't like it or does it differently. It's not up to them. You will never be able to move forward if you are too concerned about what others think of you.
Social media is a perfect example of that. People post pictures because they want you to think they have the best life, but mostly, they are not. They are simply trying to project it.
Accept Help
No man is an island and all that. Don't turn down good or bad advice, never say no if someone offers to help you, and never be afraid to ask for help. You never know what gems you will discover.
Finding a mentor is also a great idea. Find someone who can guide you, keep you on a path, and always keep an open mind. Be willing to hear people out, and you will learn how to weed your way through the good advice from the bad.
Accept help, but don't forget that it is also okay for people not to understand you and for you to kindly decline their help if it truly does not support where you want to be.
Put in the Work
You must put in the time. People often look at someone and think, wow, how nice to be that talented. But very few prodigies exist. Oscar Peterson practiced piano every day right up until his death at age 82.
Becoming an expert requires you to keep at it every day, trying new things, showing up, accepting the good with the bad, and never crying 'uncle.' There is no overnight success.
There is No Perfect
Accept that, and you will accept things that are not exactly what they could be, but they are what they are. People, things, ideas, everything has a flaw.
If you spend too much time trying to perfect one particular thing, you will do it to everything, and you will never move forward. We all have that day where everything goes right. Accept that for what it is, but don't expect it to happen tomorrow.
Be Good to You
Allow yourself to have bad days but don't let them define you. How are we meant to learn if we never make mistakes? Don't let others bring you down, either. Get rid of the naysayers and keep those who prop you up and believe in you.
