Your mindset can either hold you back or help you progress in life and career. A fixed mindset believes abilities are innate and unchanging, while a growth mindset sees potential for development. Adopting a growth mindset through learning, adapting, and taking action enables one to realize their full potential and achieve more through dedicated effort. Changing one's mindset begins with accepting the need for change in how one thinks and does things.

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Mindset - Is Yours
Holding You Back?
WORDS I DONALD MACNAUGHTON
“It all depends on
how we look at
things, and not on
how they are
themselves.”
– Carl Jung
YOUR mindset can mean the difference work life and career, this means you will Take Action
between staying where you are in life – both always see the potential to achieve more. If you want things to change, change the
your personal life and your work life – or Even with “natural” abilities, you’ll believe way you do things.
moving onwards and upwards on your that with dedicated effort, you can continue
journey towards realising your true to grow and develop your skills further, and Learn
potential. In short, your mindset can hold any skills you don’t currently have are skills Make a study of those who have already
you back, so with that said, what’s yours? that you have the potential to acquire. achieved the success you aspire to. What do
In a nutshell, your mindset is the way you Clearly, it takes a growth mindset to be they routinely do and how do they routinely
view yourself, your circumstances and the able to realise your full potential in all areas think?
world around you; it’s the way you see of life. In ‘The 12 Hidden Laws of
things and, crucially, the way you think Performance: How to use your mind to win Adapt
about things. in sport and life,’ the importance of Apply what you learn to your life and career
developing a growth mindset to achieve a and embrace the changes you must make to
Fixed Mindset top level performance in sport is journey towards your full potential. n
With a fixed mindset, you believe that you highlighted and summed up by the phrase,
are as you are and things are as they are and “you get out what you put in.” Exactly the
that’s it! In terms of your work life, this same principle applies to all professions, not Pick up your copy of the 12 Laws at
means you will believe that any skills or just elite sport. If you want more out of your www.the12lawsofperformance.co or e-mail
talents you have are just “natural” abilities career, you have to be prepared to put more donald@zonedinperformance.com
you happen to have been born with, and the in, and that means being prepared to accept
same goes for skills and talents you don’t that change is possible.
have; you believe you’re stuck with your lot
Donald MacNaughton is available for
and nothing is going to change that. Changing Your Mindset
consultation, coaching and workshops for
The good news is that mindset can be
individuals and organisations.
Growth Mindset changed. To begin the process of change,
email: donald@zonedinperformance.com
With a growth mindset, you believe that you must first accept that if you continue to
www.zonedinperformance.com
who you are now and the way things are do things in the same way and think about
now are not fixed and that everything has things in the same way, you will continue to
the potential to change. In terms of your get the same results. blog www.donmacnaughton.org
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