Developing a Personal Growth Mindset

 

Developing a personal growth mindset is all about your attitude and how you approach your life during the easy times and the challenging times. As a person with a growth mindset, you simply know that you can develop skills and intelligence throughout your life. While people have inherited traits, true success comes from developing and growing. You can develop your personal growth mindset by taking the following actions. 

• Define Your Vision – Your vision defines your purpose in life. Your purpose is why you choose to exist and do what you do. Your vision is how you will express that purpose to the world and yourself. 

• Know Your Passions – One way to figure out what you're truly enthusiastic about is to experience more things in life if you don't know. Read more books. Go on more trips. Expose yourself to more things that might spark something inside you that you didn't know about before. 

• Embrace Imperfection – It's more than likely that anything you believe is an imperfection also has a positive side to someone. However, this is more about the idea that perfection does not exist, so you shouldn't seek it. Instead of focusing on perfection, just accept it does not exist, and doing your best is enough. 

• Focus On Authenticity – When you are authentic, you make decisions that align with your principles, morals, and values in the open and behind closed doors. You accept yourself warts and all, and you accept others where they are too.

• Cultivate a Sense of Purpose – Knowing your principles, morals, and values will assist you with finding your purpose. In addition, knowing the big picture of what you believe in and how you support those beliefs will make you feel as if you have a sense of purpose. 

• Focus On Your Strengths – If you have any natural talents, it's imperative that you focus on them and explore them further. Whatever you are naturally good at is where your passions should lie to make it easier to achieve results. 
  

• Acknowledge Your Weaknesses – While you do not want to focus on your weaknesses, being honest about them will help you compensate and overcome them. For example, if you are often late, figuring out why can help you overcome it. Likewise, if you're not naturally a good singer, you can take voice lessons, but if you're tone-deaf, you'll have to accept that you'll never be a singer. That doesn't mean you can't be in the music business, though.

• Be Precise About What You Want – As you consider your desires in life, be specific as you describe your goals. You really do need to know in your mind when, why, what, and how of it all in order to achieve it. 

• Work On Your Thoughts and Beliefs – Take time each day to journal your thoughts and explore your beliefs and how they make you feel. Challenge yourself to prove yourself wrong so that you can become more open-minded. 

• Face Challenges – The more you experience facing and overcoming challenges, the more you'll begin to accept that you can grow, change, and learn. In addition, the experience of succeeding will overshadow previously held limiting belief systems that stopped you from success. 

• Avoid Approval-Seeking – Caring about what other people think is part of being a human, but the truth is, the person who matters more in this equation is you. What you think about your own actions matter more than what anyone else thinks. Doing things for approval will almost always result in disappointment.

• Keep Learning – The more you know, the more you realize you don't know. Valuing lifelong learning will allow you to ask better questions as you grow and learn. One thing builds upon the other until your experience, education, and effort cumulate into results. 

• Reward Effort – While the impact you make toward your goals is important, the truth is, the more you focus on that and avoid effort and the process of doing it, the less likely you are ever to see the impact you want to make. 

If you are struggling, want to give up, and feel like you just cannot do something, try changing the sentence you tell yourself from, "I can't right now," to "I can't, yet." Adding this small three-letter word to an “I can't,” statement will open possibilities by allowing you to consider the facts and ask yourself what you need to do or know.