How to Have the Proper Mindset for Success

by John Pitlick on September 23, 2009

Success with anything is a product of not only dedicated effort but having the proper mindset.

Without the proper mindset it is easy for you to get distracted.

Now more than ever is the time to start building your mindset towards a focus for success. The most important aspect of mindset focus is do not allow EMOTIONS to rule you!

In any business if you let emotion rule your every move you will be more likely to quit when the times get tough. If you quit then there is no way for you to achieve what you wanted to get out of the business in the first place.

I don’t care what your motivation is, whether that is putting your kids through school, being able to spend more time with your family, or just not having to wake up at a certain time every day stuck in the rat race, you will not win if you let your emotions drive you .

The High Emotional State

Being in a high emotional state makes it more difficult to share with someone your great opportunity. Think about this that if every time you get rejected you allow emotion to latch on to the rejection.

I’m willing to bet that everyone has had a similar string of rejection that I received when I first started in my business career. Rejection made me feel like maybe I made a bad decision getting started with my opportunity or even doubt if I could succeed in the industry I was in.

The key for me is I don’t internalize that rejection. I don’t look at it emotionally.

Any sales book worth its merit hammers this fact into you. You can’t be emotionally attached to your outcome. The top sales people in any field will tell you that often times you will hear yes for every 10 no’s you hear.

Now that’s not an excuse to go out there and start taking a running tally of your no’s, then when you get to 9 expect a sale. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that, in fact you might have 100 No’s before you have 10 sales.

The Factor

Having the proper mindset is one of the most critical factors of whether or not you are going to make it. Mindset decides whether or not you can not get discouraged or lose focus.

Remember most business success is ALL IN YOUR MIND.

Decide now to have success and decide now that you will have the mindset that will create this foundation for success.

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The Mind Set of Success

-In the Beginning, there was a Thought-

Thoughts are the starting point to all that we do, both good and bad, either success or failure. People underestimate the power of thought. Thoughts are things. They are energy. Every thought leaves its trace upon our minds.

What we let into our minds and hold onto governs what our circumstances and our actions are.

Each individual has the seeds of success within him. The seeds of success are the thoughts that they carry around with them. We are all the product of our own thinking and beliefs.

Every thought seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstances.

James Allen – “As a Man Thinketh”

Sustained mind control is one of the most difficult endeavors one may undertake but it is also one of the most rewarding.

Create and control your thoughts and you can become what you want to become. A person can live the way they want to live when they learn to think what they want to think.

You are what you think about most of the time. A person who is seeking success and a higher life, strives to keep their mind on the positive and the constructive. We gradually grow into what we are holding in our minds.

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. And with our thoughts, we make our world.

Buddha

If you want to make positive changes in your life, you need to begin with what is in your mind. Our thoughts are the tools with which we build our lives.

The key is to keep your mind on the big picture and the goals leading to it. Think only of what you want, not on what you don’t want.

Replace negative thinking, unproductive worrying, and thoughts of fear with positive, imaginative, and constructive thinking.

“Your life is controlled by your thoughts. Your thoughts are controlled by your goals.”

Earl Nightingale

A great way to keep your mind on what you want is to carry a goal card with you. The goal card lists the top goals you are working on. Just thinking of your goal, particularly, the end result, keeps your mind productive and under your control.

Keeping your mind busy with productive matters will prevent negative thoughts from creeping in.

“If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.”

Napoleon Hill

“Mind control is a result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you.”

Napoleon Hill

A controlled, focused mind pays attention to thoughts, words, actions, and plans. A person who lets their mind wander aimlessly around will never achieve lasting success.

Hold your ideal in your mind until it becomes a mental habit. Focus on it to the exclusion of all other things until it becomes a reality.

Slowly but surely, sustained positive thinking creates an irresistible momentum. People begin to notice a change in you. More opportunities come your way. You feel more confident. Gradually your outer environment begins to grow in the likeness of your inner environment.

Richard Kimball is a successful entrepreneur, artist, and teacher. His latest project is to share the universal principles of success so that others can achieve prosperity and the fulfillment of their dreams.

Website: Building A Successful Life [http://www.buildingasuccessfullife.com]

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Mind Set

A mindset, in decision theory and general systems theory, refers to a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or tools. This phenomenon of cognitive bias is also sometimes described as mental inertia, "groupthink", or a "paradigm", and it is often difficult to counteract its effects upon analysis and decision making processes.

On the positive sides a mindset can also be seen as incident of a persons Weltanschauung or philosophy of life. For example there has been quite some interest in the typical mindset of an entrepreneur.

Mindsets in politics

A well-known example is the "Cold War mindset" prevalent in both the U.S. and USSR, which included absolute trust in two-player game theory, in the integrity of command chain, in control of nuclear materials, and in the mutual assured destruction of both in the case of war. Although most consider that this mindset usefully served to prevent an attack by either country, the assumptions underlying deterrence theory have made assessments of the efficacy of the Cold War mindset a matter of some controversy.

Most theorists consider that the key responsibility of an embedded power group is to challenge the assumptions which comprise the group's own mindset. According to these commentators, power groups which fail to review or revise their mindsets with sufficient regularity cannot hold power indefinitely, as a single mindset is unlikely to possess the flexibility and adaptability needed to address all future events. For example, the variations in mindset between Democratic Party and Republican Party Presidents in the US may have made that country more able to challenge assumptions than the Kremlin with its more static bureaucracy.

Modern military theory attempts to challenge entrenched mindsets in dealing with asymmetric warfare, terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In combination, these threats represent "a revolution in military affairs" and require very rapid adaptation to new threats and circumstances. In this context, the cost of not implementing adaptive mindsets cannot be afforded.

Collective mindsets

Naturally, the question regarding the embodiment of a collective mindset comes to mind. Erikson’s (1974) analysis of group-identities and what he calls a life-plan seems relevant here. He recounts the example of American Indians, who were meant to undergo a reeducation process meant to imbue a modern ‘life-plan’ which aimed for a house and a richness expressed by filled bank account. Erikson writes that the Indians’ collective historic identity as buffalo hunters was oriented around such fundamentally different reasons/goals that even communication about the divergent ‘life plans’ was itself difficult.

There is a double relation between the institution embodying for example an entrepreneurial mindset and its entrepreneurial performance. Firstly, an institution with an entrepreneurial philosophy will set entrepreneurial goals and strategies as a whole, but maybe even more importantly, it will foster an entrepreneurial milieu, allowing each entity to pursue emergent opportunities. In short, philosophical stance codified in the mind hence as mindset lead to a climate which in turn causes values which lead to practice.

Collective mindsets in this sense are described in such works as Hutchin’s “Cognition in the wild” (1995), who analyzes a whole team of naval navigators as the cognitive unit or as computational system, or Senges' Knowledge entrepreneurship in universities (2007). There are also parallels to the emerging field of ‘collective intelligence’ (e.g. (Zara, 2004)) and exploiting the ‘Wisdom of the crowds’ (Surowiecki, 2005) of stakeholders. Zara notes that since collective reflection is more explicit, discursive and conversational it therefore needs a good gestell – especially when it comes to information and communication technology.

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