3 Daily Habits to Grow a Positive Mindset
Without a doubt having the right mindset is crucial to getting what you want from life. In fact, I would say that it is a huge determining factor between success and failure.
It’s been said that success is 80% mindset and 20% strategy.
This means that you have to BELIEVE that you have the power to create the life you want BEFORE you can go about getting it.
Mindset influences your emotional, mental and physical happiness.
I’ve definitely found this to be true in my own business. Working on and expanding my mindset on a daily basis is one of the main contributors to me changing my beliefs as to what is possible for me. It’s become a non negotiable and something I feel the absence of if I happen to miss a day.
Here are some of my daily practices around mindset to help with inspiration and direction if you are struggling to create your own practice.
1. Journaling
I use my journal in several ways. Each morning, I take the time to write in my journal what I want to create for myself in my life. I write my goals as they have already been completed and with the outcome I desire already having taken place.
I then explore my belief systems around making those goals happen.
What do I believe about this goal and my ability to achieve it?
What limitations do I have around it?
What’s stopping me?
What do I believe about my ability to create success?
This is focused on identifying and understanding the negative beliefs I hold that might get in the way.
Once I’ve done this, I reframe the old belief into a new belief that supports my goal and I create an affirmation around that and commit to making this my NEW belief in that area.
At the beginning, when I first got started with journaling I used this mostly as a brain dumping exercise and to get my thoughts on paper to help me with clarity and declutter my mind.
This was great for getting into the practice of writing daily but was nowhere near as effective for actively changing my belief systems.
Asking yourself powerful questions using journaling prompts on the other hand works brilliantly for unlocking and shifting negative beliefs.
2. Gratitude
Daily gratitude is one of my most powerful practices that I use. Writing down what you are grateful for has such a bigger impact as compared to just thinking about it and I find that this works best for me.
When I first got started with gratitude, I could barely find 5 things to write down (not because there weren’t any but because my mind just wasn’t programmed that way).
Nowadays, it’s second nature for me to do this practice and I can easily fill pages and pages of things that I am grateful for. I write gratitude for EVERYTHING. Big, small and in between.
I focus on the feelings and get really specific about why I’m grateful for the specific thing e.g. So instead of just “I’m grateful for the view” this becomes I am so grateful because of how calm it makes me feel, how the strong breeze feels fresh and makes me feel re-energised and ready to tackle the rest of the day, this bench I’m sat on, put here in memory of a loved one makes me feel glad to be alive and also appreciate the gesture of love.”.
Going deeper in this way really internalises and magnifies the feelings of gratitude.
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. ”
3. Meditation
Meditation is one of my favourite practices. It is fantastic for quieting a busy mind. After many years in the corporate world and as a recovering perfectionist A type personality, most of my life has been lived with a very busy mind which is on constant go.
Quieting the mind was not something I did and for many years I saw this as “wasted” time. But embracing meditation has been transformational in quietening the mind.
If you are just getting started with meditation, I recommend a guided meditation so that you can focus on the words and your breath and take the focus away from the mind chatter.
You don’t need to worry about your mind being blank or not allowing thoughts in or overthinking the whole thing. Keep it as simple as focusing on the breath.
For me personally, I can’t get enough of meditation now, I fit it in when I can for however long I can Everything from 5 minutes to 50 minutes. And the big difference from now and the corporate world is that I no longer see it as wasted time but as time essential for my best productivity.
I love Gandhi’s quote
““I have so much to accomplish today, that I must meditate for 2 hours instead of 1””
Reading
Continuous personal development is a big part of my job and growth is one of my highest values and reading is something that satisfies both of those areas.
It’s been said that the average CEO reads 60 books a year whilst the average person reads 1. I can relate to this and when I was in my corporate job I read very little despite always having been a book lover.
I read a lot of books around mindset, beliefs, money mindset and spirituality and personal development and some of my favourites on these subjects I have re-read multiple times.
Check out this post for the full list of my favourites.
Whilst I can’t say, I do these practices rigidly every single day, I usually fit as much as I can most days even if some days I do an “express” version of my routine which is simply just 5 minutes of each.
I can definitely say that I notice the difference in myself on the days when I don’t do something. I feel less in flow, more out of tune with the vibrational energy of the universe and generally out of sync and that manifests in how things play out in my life and business. It’s almost like I feel a pause in the momentum.
Conversely, when I’m consistent with my practices, they are the catalyst for incredible things happening.
If you don’t have a consistent mindset practice, then I would encourage you to get started with one today. Start small, with whatever feels easiest (maybe reading 5 minutes a day or getting started with journaling) and add things as you go. Pretty soon you will notice a huge difference in how things manifest in your life.
If you’re ready to create a success mindset and want to incorporate a daily mindset routine then I have two meditations you can get started with. The Success Mindset Visualisation is a great one for moving into a more confident mindset and the Financial Abundance visualisation is great for shifting beliefs around money.
Hey, I'm Tasmin! I'm a Mindset & Business Confidence Coach for new and aspiring female entrepreneurs. I help overcome their fears and ramp up their confidence so that they can escape the corporate drudgery and create a life and business on their terms.
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