It's monday morning. You're bright eyed and bushy tailed. (Oh, no, that's the squirrel outside my window.) You're barely mobile, slowing shuffling every square inch of the sole of your shoes evenly on the ground...(extreme cooperation with gravity.) Monday...Monday....(think Mamas and Papas)..catchy tune, or Munday, Munday...( still 1/2 in Sunday, if you know what I mean). What's a person to do?
Wherever you are, take note. Are you sporting a fixed mindset, or a growth mindset? Are things already predetermined, or are you willing to look at them in a fresh way, to grow and learn from whatever is coming up? This is a key component of living up to your potential. In her research, Carol Dwecke examines the fixed mindset and the growth mindsets, and looks at how they create different paradigms for creating success.
The fixed mindset is focused on proving the self. Situations are judged, will I succeed or fail? Efforts on focused on succeeding (and also avoiding failure.) The growth mindset shifts the idea of failures to learning opportunities. The basic belief is that through application and experience, you can cultivate qualities.
It may sound simple and obvious to you, common sense so to speak. But when examined in everyday life, how many things are we held back from by our predetermined beliefs? So as you go into this monday morning are you willing to experiment with the belief that your true potential is unknown, and a willingness to explore it? Pay attention today to how many judgments come up for you, about both yourself and others? Observe this week, and you may unexpectedly find some learning opportunities just waiting for you.
Wherever you are, take note. Are you sporting a fixed mindset, or a growth mindset? Are things already predetermined, or are you willing to look at them in a fresh way, to grow and learn from whatever is coming up? This is a key component of living up to your potential. In her research, Carol Dwecke examines the fixed mindset and the growth mindsets, and looks at how they create different paradigms for creating success.
The fixed mindset is focused on proving the self. Situations are judged, will I succeed or fail? Efforts on focused on succeeding (and also avoiding failure.) The growth mindset shifts the idea of failures to learning opportunities. The basic belief is that through application and experience, you can cultivate qualities.
It may sound simple and obvious to you, common sense so to speak. But when examined in everyday life, how many things are we held back from by our predetermined beliefs? So as you go into this monday morning are you willing to experiment with the belief that your true potential is unknown, and a willingness to explore it? Pay attention today to how many judgments come up for you, about both yourself and others? Observe this week, and you may unexpectedly find some learning opportunities just waiting for you.
Now, back to the squirrels, the ones humming Monday Monday.....
