Did you ever have a moment where you got a brilliant flash of insight? A spark that had your mind running 500 miles an hour with an idea that seem to come out of nowhere? That happened to me April 2017, nine years ago. I actually posted my thoughts on Facebook that day. I found the post recently thanks to searching the hashtags I used (#mindsetting) and it re-ignited the train of thought I had.
The MIND is key to everything. It’s that simple and yet not so simple.
Your thoughts build the structure for who you are, the framework of how you act, and what you believe you can do. It can limit you or set you free. Picture a simple claw hammer. It can hammer a nail in or it can pull a nail out depending on HOW you use it. My goal, was and still is, make the best use of my mind by setting it to any task I wanted to accomplish.
The idea is simple, yes. The execution is the hard part. Hard but not impossible. It has been NINE years from that thought to this e-book launch! NINE. YEARS. I started something, got distracted and forgot about it for a long time. The idea was still in my mind like an ant on an eight lane highway. It was there and moving but everything was so big and fast, it went unnoticed until now.
Fast forward to 2024, I was frustrated. It was the usual suspects: money, career, health. The job was changing in way that seemed to undermine years of connections and development. Inflation had outpaced earnings quickly but quietly and I incorrectly thought I had screwed up. I couldn’t seem to catch a break. I wasn’t satisfied with where I was. Notice the wording here “couldn’t”, “wasn’t”. I had a realization that a lot of my thinking centered on “not”. I was aware but focusing on the wrong part. I began consciously shift my thinking to what I wanted, what I could, what I would. In the beginning, it was difficult to maintain. Why? Because the easiest person to lie to is yourself! It is easy to believe you! I told myself to be honest with me.
And in that very moment another spark of insight hit me. It was all in my mind. I was set on survival mode, not living, not growing, just surviving. SET. IN MY MIND. I started working on changing my mindset. It became more about what can I do next rather than what is going to happen next. Changing my mindset, I ramped up my research on entrepreneurship. I asked questions and curated the answers. I manually scraped Facebook and Instagram for information and ideas. The Windows Snipping Tool became my number one utility.
2025 rolls around. I got distracted again. But this distraction was different. It checked all the right boxes for business, entrepreneurship, and development. So what was the problem? It was pulling me away from MY table, the one I had been building from scratch. I had to step back and evaluate my direction. I got quiet. I went internal. I took a serious look at what I was building versus the thing someone else had built. I had one powerful thought: BET ON YOURSELF!
That was it. “Okay. Let’s run it” is what I said to myself. And the right resources appeared just when I needed them.
I found my old Facebook post and I began to develop it. I finished it. Shared it with a select group I knew would give me real feedback, not just what I wanted to hear. This is not just a book. It’s what I have been living. Changing the way I think, what I think, and putting it into action.
It is The Growth Mindset e-book… and this is just the beginning. I have much more to share in the future.
Join me on this journey. Let’s Learn, Grow, Adapt, and Evolve!