Your mindset does not lie. It dictates how you experience your life and what you do with your life.
Most people treat mindset like a feeling — something you either have on a good day or don't. But mindset is not a mood. It is a programmed system. And like any system, it is made up of parts. Understand the parts, and you can build the whole thing on purpose.
There are 7 keys that make up your mindset. Each one plays a role in how you think, what you believe, and what you allow yourself to become.
1. Belief
Belief is what you accept as true. Not what you say you believe — what your mind actually believes. If you believe it's hard to do, then it will be. If you believe it's easy, then it is. Both are true.
Practical step: Write one belief down. Ask honestly — does this belief help me live the life I want to live? If it doesn't, then it's time for a change. Ex. I make money working my job. Change it up: I make money with my online business. Look up businesses making money online and realize the truth: there is money to be made online even for you.
You don't have beliefs, beliefs have you.
2. Conviction
Conviction is not hope. It is knowing before you see it. When you have conviction, you move with confidence.
Practical step: Take 10 minutes a day to visualize yourself accomplishing your goal or task. This is the same method top-tier athletes use — visualization of making their shots, catching the football, or scoring a goal. If you have conviction, then you move with confidence on the path you decide to take.
3. Perception
Perception is how you see what happens to you. The same situation can build one person and break another. The difference is never the situation — it's how the mind interprets it.
Practical step: Awareness is the first step, then take 3 minutes to let the emotion subside, then respond. Perception will dictate if you react or respond to what life brings your way.
How you see the world is how the world sees you.
4. Emotionally Charged Thoughts
Not all thoughts are created equal. The ones loaded with emotion — fear, worry, desire — are the ones that drive your behavior most. Your mind moves in the direction of its most emotionally charged thoughts.
Practical step: When a strong emotion hits, don't react or suppress it. Sit with it until it subsides, because it will. Then ask: how do I want to use this energy? Redirect it toward a goal.
Emotion is energy in motion. Choose how you want to use that energy.
5. Focus
Focus is where you keep your attention. Where attention goes, energy flows. If you don't focus yourself on the life you want, then the world will distract you toward the life it wants you to have.
Practical step: Take 30 minutes to meditate in silence first thing in the morning. Meditation helps you focus your attention inward on just you. Relax and just breathe — allow all thoughts to pass as you focus on inhaling and exhaling. It's about redirecting attention back to what matters, every time it drifts.
Focus can help you build or help you get lost. It is all a choice.
6. Reactions
How you react to what happens around you reinforces your current programming. Every time you react, you feed your old programming. Every time you pause and respond with intention, you starve the programming.
Practical step: Before reacting, pause. Take one breath. Ask: does this reaction make me stronger or weaker? Then respond from clarity. The pause is the practice.
Reacting feeds your old programming. Responding starves it.
7. Expectations
Expectations are what you consider normal — and your normal becomes your life. If you expect average, average feels comfortable and your mind will keep you there.
Practical step: Spend 10 minutes a day visualizing what you want to be normal — with emotion, with detail — until it stops feeling far away and starts feeling like your new normal.
Your expectations can build you or keep you exactly where you are. Be aware of what you choose to make normal.
Closing
Seven keys. One system. You are not missing motivation — you have a mindset that was built by your experiences, family, and friends. That means it can be rebuilt, by you, on purpose, one key at a time.
Start with the one most relevant to where you are right now. Build it small. Build it consistently. The rest follows.
All things begin within.
— Dreams On Kanvas
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