Tips for developing a personal growth mindset
The following tips will help you to adopt a personal growth mindset:1. Stop justifying everything
You do not need to justify everything
that you do. When you adopt a new behaviour or hobby, your friends and
family will ask you why you have done it. Remember that you do not need
to offer any justification other than ‘because I want to!’
2. Engage new people
Seek out and have conversations with
people, and groups, whom you might not have spent time with previously.
Approach these conversations with an open mind and you will learn new
things and have your own views challenged. This will help to freshen up
your life and stimulate your creativity and sense of adventure.
3. Allow yourself to dream
Every new adventure, or achievement,
begins with a dream. Allow yourself to dream. Do not place limitations
on these dreams. Your dreams are part of your creative self. If you
embrace them, you will identify new opportunities for growth. When you
identify these opportunities, try them out.
4. Understand that you will never do your best
No matter what you do, there will always be opportunity for improvement. There are always opportunities to learn from your experiences
and use the feedback to improve. Therefore, you can never do your best
but you can do the best that you can at any given moment, with the
knowledge and skill you possess at that time. When you understand and
accept this, you realise that the judgements of others are irrelevant.
You can take comfort that you did the best you could at that time and
resolve to learn from the experience so that you may do better next
time.
5. Focus on the experience rather than the end result
There may be activities which you have avoided because you don’t feel that you would be any good at them. Ask yourself ‘Does it really matter if I am not very good at it?’ The answer is ‘No’.
You don’t need to be good at it, if you enjoy it. You are not looking
for a record deal, a museum exhibition or a professional sports
contract. You are simply looking for fun.
If you focus on the experience rather than the end result, you will
have a lot more fun and you might, unwittingly, find something which you
are actually good at.
6. Try one new thing everyday
If you commit to trying one new thing
every day, you will have tried 365 new things in one year. The chances
of finding something you like, enjoy or are good at are much higher.
More importantly, you will quickly develop a personal growth mindset
where you see challenges rather than problems, and you are unafraid to
try new things.
Effective goal setting lies at the heart of a personal growth mindset. You can learn to set effective goals with the Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting.
A personal growth mindset allows you take on new challenges, seeing
only opportunities for fun and learning. There may still be tough times
but when you have the right mindset, you are more resilient. You accept
that things will go wrong but you focus on identifying a solution,
implementing it and moving on. You know that you might fail at a task
but that doesn’t make you a failure. In fact, it affords you a valuable
opportunity to learn and improve. With a personal growth mindset, you
are happier, healthier and you have a zest for life. You become emotionally mature. Setbacks rarely faze you because you know that new opportunities lie just around the corner.
