8 Mindset Shifts for Personal Growth
Maximizing your personal growth is a worthy pursuit. In fact, many people make personal development their primary purpose in life. But even if you just want to overcome social anxiety or change limiting behaviors, having an effective mindset for personal growth will make the process more enjoyable and your efforts more rewarding.
Your mindset can make all the difference!
Consider adopting these changes to skyrocket your growth
1. Be Unbiased. When you are open to different possibilities your growth is limitless. In order to grow we need to be open to new perspectives, ideas, habits, and beliefs. If you’re dead set on approaching the world in a particular way, you limit your growth.
"A mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size" - Albert Einstein
Consider this, if you already know everything, you’d already have everything you want. You may be mistaken about multiple things. Are you willing to put in the work to learn?
As you begin to discover and learn new things are you open to the idea that your original stance needs to change in order to grow?
2. Be a lifelong learner. Are you willing to learn about goal setting? Embracing change? Mindset? Emotional skills? Reading about new ideas? You don’t know a lot that you need to know if you’re going to become everything that you’re capable of being.
3. Accepting failure as a part of success. Do you know anyone who tries something new and never experiences hiccups along the way? Learning to ride a bike for the first time involves many failures. Trying to keep the bike balanced while trying to get your feet on the pedals can be a challenge but with a little bit of practice you will master it. Just like any new adventure in your life; starting a business, a new career, becoming new parents you make mistakes and learn along the way. With every failure comes growth.
Failure provides the opportunity to learn so you gain the wisdom you need to overcome such challenges in future scenarios.
4. Be adventurous. Should you start an online business? A home business? A freelance gig? Try them all and see what works for you. You can’t be certain what you want to have, do, or be until you’ve experimented and found the best answer for yourself. Being open to experimenting helps us realize what we like and what we’re passionate about in our lives. 5. Be humble. Your humility is crucial when it comes to maximizing your personal growth. Your ego makes you more likely to be certain you’re right when you’re wrong. It leads you to blame others when the fault is your own. It also makes you afraid to fail.
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” - C. S. Lewis
6. Progress over Perfection. Making progress everyday is powerful. When you can embrace the little progressions in your life and enjoy the feeling of being 1% better at something your mindset is geared towards personal growth.
7. Be Patient. Great things don’t happen overnight. It may take days, months, years or even decades to become the best possible version of yourself. Even figuring out the ideal workout plan requires several years of trial and error. Are you socially anxious like me? It takes time to improve, patience is an important factor!
8. Be determined. Changing and growing isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes commitment and determination to make big changes in your life. Especially after experiencing many failures. J.K Rowling had her first Harry Potter novel rejected 12 times!
Determination is a valuable asset to have in many facets of life. The sooner you quit the sooner you obliterate your potential.
A mindset that supports your desire to grow will be a key tool to your success in things you choose to pursue. Real, sustainable growth happens with time.
Your mindset can be your shortcut to fantastic personal growth. Be unbiased, a lifelong learner, accept failure, have adventures, embrace humility, strive for progress, be patient and be determined. Be honest about your mindset and strive to optimize your mind to accelerate your personal growth.
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