How to Fine Tune Your Mind for Growth and Success: Scale Your Mindset, Scale Your Business

The continued exploration for a mindset made of positive sum and abundance perspective

As I have begun a journey building a business from zero in an untapped region for an established company, it has me consistently coming back to the principles, concepts, and ideas that support having an abundant growth mindset.

Why is this important? As you train yourself to become more self-aware, you realize how much you shut yourself down. You say no, you limit, you lose before you start. I have found I do it all the time and I constantly battle the limiting beliefs that we naturally place on ours. But if you do recognize it, you can beat it more often than not, and live beyond the limitations of that comfort zone or safe space you like to create in your head.

A few thoughts on allowing yourself room for success

Thinking Big

• Various philosophy and research concepts make it clear, you will unconsciously limit yourself to the extent of your objectives and aspirations

• Think bigger, achieve better, grow, and become better

• Eliminate limits, think bigger, and at worst you have increased your odds of success at achieving what you see as your lowest level of success

BHAG

• Finding and committing to your” Big Hairy Audacious Goal”

Abundance

• There is a difference between wasting and spending vs. thinking beyond the smallest possible units, and believing there is enough for all of us

• Positive Sum Mentality = Positive Outcomes

Possibilities are endless

• Consider this - is anyone directly limiting you?

• Are you really being held back?

• Who is in your way?

• Unless someone is directly holding you back, it’s you…You’re finding reasons (excuses) on why you don’t have time, it won’t work, you can’t

Vision

• Have a view of what you want to do and where you want to go

• Execution delivering that vision

Simplicity at macro view

• Simple scales, complex fails

• Big picture long term, strategic, with tactical execution mindset in short term

• Exponential growth will come through commitment to the work and presence with the right business opportunities are targeted

Putting out signals

• The more you put out your work, building trust and reputation, the better chances you have to find those who value and appreciate your work, pay you for your work and tell others

• This is not about social media or an online presence, this is about relationships, whether 1:1 or one to many, how you do it can vary

• This about finding your tribe or like-minded people

Explore and learn with endless curiosity

• Study or execute professional research with a genuine love or curiosity for those topics or area of interest

Be in the room where it happens

• You have to put yourself amongst those who can impact your thoughts, resources, or your work

• Surround yourself in situations that help you grow, learn, and push you to elevate, not stagnate

Increasing your surface area for luck

• Another way to look at above, from a different lens

• If you believe in luck, that’s fine, but increasing your chances for luck by positioning yourself

• The more you’re in the arena, the better chance you have to win, meet those who can help or that you can learn from, or at worst, you’ll die trying

• Become a magnet for opportunity

Relationships

• There is nothing more fundamental than human connection

• Relationships are what drives business and success

• 1:1, or one to many

• Take care of people

• Use the we pronoun - It’s the team and people

Value

• Value is determined by each individual, company or group

• The market determines value in one or another

• Value is the measure of what you create or what you deliver to others

Listening

• Understanding your audience

• Taking time to hear opportunities

• Willing to consider things that aren’t typical for you

A genuine joy for life

• Seeing the good in things and people

• Blocks out negativity

Who not how

• identify the best way to get work done, don’t just hire a person or buy software

Stories not lectures

• Telling is great, showing is better

• Showing how you got there

• What makes you successful

• Paint vivid pictures of the past, present, and future

• What are you all about

Implementation, not information = action over planning

• Preparation is important, but procrastination is deadly

• Your secret sauce is your people and your ability to execute or operate

• Rarely does tech stay as the secret over time, tech secrets are temporary

Intentional and purposeful action

• It’s about doing work that matters, not just work

• Urgency without haste

• Focused work and thought on what we want to create, build, grow, or do

Reassurance

• No guarantees anything will be a success or will pay dividends

• The key is finding the work and doing that work that you want to do and can share with others who need it, regardless of the outcomes

• Outcomes will come from faith in the process over a long enough period of time

Not just deals, hires, fires, news, but meaningful business. Never allow someone else’s agenda to get in the way of your principles.

These principles, while many are quite simple, transform your perspective in your ability to handle day-to-day business. These concepts are at the route for so many great companies and philosophies of great leaders, and have been tested by time over and over again. This is and introduction to these concepts, and learning them deeply requires further research. Professional research in these areas would be well worth your time in growing your business or growing yourself.

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