Learn from Your Mistakes
Your natural inclination might be to run away from your mistakes or bury your head in the sand to hide from failures but the best thing you can do is to learn from your mistakes. Identify what went well and what contributed to the failure and look for opportunities to establish best practices for what not to do next time.
Know Your Strengths
People often talk about knowing your weaknesses and looking for ways to improve them but knowing and owning your strengths and how to leverage them for success will support your growth mindset and trigger positive energy.
Set Goals and Achieve Results
To achieve a growth mindset, you should establish measurable goals. Next, take the necessary steps to complete them. Talking is easy but taking action will go a long way to steer you in the direction of success.
Solicit Feedback
Soliciting feedback may generate negative thoughts, but it should not generate negative energy. You will want to don your armor or Teflon vest and get ready to receive input and look forward to improving performance.
This particular action can be especially potent in the workplace when you solicit feedback from a leader in your organization. You can use the input to seek growth opportunities at your company and for the entrepreneur to improve quality of service and profitability of your business.
This is actually a continuation of Lesson 5. I placed it separately because of it’s length and the need to possibly spend quite some time digesting and putting the information into practice.
Isolate Yourself From Negative People
You might have heard how negativity is a bad thing when it comes to having the right mindset for success. It’s true. Negativity is one of the biggest things that can derail any attempt at success.
The reason that negativity can keep you stuck, holding you back from obtaining goals and changing any part of your life, is because negativity wipes out motivation.
It’s hard to feel motivated about anything when your head is full of negative messages. What happens is that you’re fired up, ready to charge ahead with reaching success, when along comes someone who says that you don’t have the talent, the knowledge, the money, the support or the courage to make it happen.
Before you know it, that negativity has seeped all the way into your inner mind and you find the self-doubts are multiplying. You begin to believe they’re right.
You don’t have the talent. You don’t have the knowledge and the next thing you know; you’re not even trying to move forward anymore. When negativity destroys your motivation, it destroys your confidence.
It’s not a matter of whether or not you’re going to encounter this negative response, but when. Because many people just have a damaging outlook and they spread that negativity.
It’s second nature to them, but it doesn’t have to be accepted by you. You can reject their negativity. Who’s destructive in your life? First, it’s usually always going to be family.
Under the well-meaning guise of trying to be helpful and not wanting to see you get hurt or fail, they’re going to try to persuade you that what you’re trying to do can’t be done.
Next, it will be your friends. Many of your friends probably have their lives already mapped out right through their retirement years and you can bet it doesn’t involve stepping out and running their own business.
Trial and Error Will Come
Friends often play it safe and so they want you to do the same. It’s true that being an entrepreneur means there will be some risk. There will be long hours. There will be trial and error.
But that’s not a bad thing. It’s just part of the process and you can’t let friends influence you to give up. You’ll find on your entrepreneurial journey that there are even some fellow marketers who are negative.
These people whine about how difficult it is. They point out the pitfalls, they talk about the downside and it seems like they do nothing but discourage others and themselves.
They’re almost constantly griping about stuff and comparing themselves and you to success stories. They’ll even point out how they and you will never reach that same level of success.
If you really want to be a success, you have to isolate yourself from negativity. If you don’t, eventually, you will start to believe this negative feedback. As a result, your motivation will either suffer or disappear altogether and eventually, you’ll give up.
What you need to do is to surround yourself with people who are positive. People who look forward to challenges and see setbacks as opportunities to learn from rather than as signs to give up.
Being around positive people will be a support team for you and help you keep your motivation high when you do reach places that are hard as you try to build your career.
Surround Yourself With Others With A Positive Mindset
It may seem cliché, but there is value in choosing to be around others who have similar goals and a growth mindset. These people will be there to offer positive affirmations and to encourage you to challenge yourself in life.
They will seem like a breath of fresh air and ultimately contribute to your successes. Meanwhile, your goal should be to replace the negative people in your life as they may hold you back from changing your way of thinking
Side Note From My Experience
It took me awhile before I realized I could surround myself with positive people without actually being in their presence. So, just in case you are a little hard headed, like me, I thought I should through this in for you.
There are several ways to surround yourself with positive people. You can start by reading books by people who have been successful in the area of business you want to succeed in. You can read blog posts and newsletters by these same people and even get on their mailing list. Receiving a marketing email a few times each week is a small price to pay for the information you can glean from what they have to say, even their marketing messages.
One of the last things I did was also one of the most helpful. I started building a relationship with some of these people. Not by sending them questions everyday but by replying to their messages and asking a question related directly to the message I replied to. Some of these people think they are above the rest of us and it doesn’t take long to figure out who those are. You need to unsubscribe from their lists and get away from them because they are only out for themselves.
You Need a Coach
The next thing I found was that if I truly wanted to make it in the Internet Marketing Arena, or any other area, I needed a coach. I could not afford one of those $1k per month coaches’ heck, I couldn’t even afford a $1k per year coach.
I started asking the people I had been trying to develop a relationship with a few more questions. However, please remember I am not talking about a different question every day or even a question every week but an occasional question outside of the replies I had already been sending. It appeared to me, a couple of these people, men in my case but there are some good female coaches out there as well, saw something in me and were willing to invest some time in me. These are the 2 men I still follow until this day.
Send me a message and if you will promise, written in blood, you will not make a pest out of yourself I will send you their names and how to subscribe to their mailing list. They may not help you the same way they helped me but the information you will get just by being on their list will be priceless.
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