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here’s some weird shit circulating around the
word “mindset” and I’d really like to blow that
stuff out of the water for you today. “Mindset” is not a new thing. It is not woo-woo. It is not
weird, or cultural, or religious. It simply exists. Your
mindset is how you feel about things, how you
perceive them, and how you process them. Today,
I’d like to address the common epidemic of just
letting your mindset be.
First of all, in order to effectively get things done
and accomplish our goals, we have to have a killer
mindset. “But why can’t we just have a to-do list,
Allie?” Well, you can. If you want. In fact, I encourage it since I’m super into lists too. However,
without an epic mindset that says “I can do anything I freaking set my mind to”, you won’t get very
far. You might knock out a day or two of things here
and there and feel accomplished, but your life’s
path demands the ultimate shift: the mindset shift.
Mindset: The Basics
Shifting your mindset is all about thought replacement. We highly recommend training tools, such
as a rubber band around your wrist, to assist in
shifting your thoughts from one direction to another.
In the Shield Sisters Initiative Coaching Club, we’re
all about mindset. We teach that mindset is the key
to every kind of success you desire, and that, unlike
the popular “if you build it, they will come” concept, mindset heavily relies on action.
a house twice as big as that one.”
Shifting Toward Success
In order to achieve true success, it’s important
that you know what success looks like to you. It
is different for every person. When I sat down to
write out my own definition, it looked a lot less like
“lots of money” than I thought it would, and more
“notoriety” and “community.”
Interesting, right?
Training tools can assist in the department of action. When I was shifting my mindset about money, each time I had a “poor me” moment (ex: “I’ll
never achieve enough to be able to buy a house
like that”), I would lightly snap the rubber band on
my wrist. This is not a self-deprecating motion.
Like I said: for every person, “success” means
something different. Before you can really move
onto the next step, take a few hours out of your
day to sit down with a piece of paper and jot out all
the thoughts that come to your head when someone says the word “success” to you.
This is a retraining of the mind. After I’d snapped
my wrist with the rubber band, I’d replace the
thought I’d just had with a verbal affirmation, such
as, “I will be so successful that I will be able to buy
After you’ve defined what you want and what your
future will consist of, you can start moving forward
into progress.
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