New Mindset New Results

Mindset and Results Coach, Sam Mills, explains the importance of having a positive mindset and how it can affect every aspect of our life and gives our readers some tips on how to change your mindset to achieve your goals.

What do successful people all have in common? They don’t allow challenges and setbacks to hold them back; instead they use them as opportunities to learn and propel themselves forward. In other words they have a positive mindset which makes them resilient and determined.

Your mindset filters how you see the world and affects everything you say and do, having an amazing impact on your entire life. Your mindset creates hope and hopelessness, success and failure and enables you to live at peace or war with circumstances beyond your control. It is the software your brain uses to create attitude, experience and achievement. Your mindset is critical, impacting whether you are positive or negative and can even be an indicator of how successful you will be or how much money you will earn in your career.

The challenge is that our brains are built for worry and caution. It is easier and more natural to think negatively than positively, this worked well and is how we survived as hunter gatherers living in a world with sabre-toothed tigers and the like. Despite the world having moved on, our brains continue to try to protect us and are still programmed to look for the problems. Changing this will change the results you achieve.

Our mindset is a result of our beliefs which affect our attitudes and actions, changing our beliefs starts the process of changing our mindset. There are many different mindsets and beliefs

that either hold us back or propel us forward, for example:

• Victim Mindset – It always happens to me, the world is against me

• Agile Mindset – embrace and see the opportunity in change

• Perfectionist Mindset – causes procrastination, giving up or never getting started

• Dreamer Mindset – visionary, believes anything is possible

Carol Dweck wrote about Fixed and Growth Mindsets in her book Mindset: How we can learn to fulfil our potential. People with Fixed Mindsets believe their abilities and opportunities are limited. Growth Mindset people see limitless potential and any setback as a learning opportunity. Research has shown that those with a result focused, growth mindset keep the end result in mind and stay positive when setbacks occur, they also tend to make more money and are happier than those who choose to limit themselves. Those with a fixed mindset make excuses for setbacks instead of learning from mistakes and blame others for not making progress.

Observing and being aware of your mindset is the first step to making change:

• When you experience something difficult and painful, do you bounce back and continue your journey or do you dwell on it and let it affect your mood?

• How do you start your day? Do you get on with your workout or avoid it? Do you wake feeling grateful or imagining everything that can go wrong?

• How do you approach work or meetings? With energy and anticipation or nervousness and apprehension?

• Is your attitude positive and uplifting or always looking for problems and blaming others?

The way we view life is through the lens of perspective, deleting and filtering things all day every day. Our mindset is one the most pervasive lenses across all our perceptions. When you embrace a new belief your mind will find evidence to support you. As author, coach and speaker Anthony Robbins states ‘What’s wrong is always available, but so is what’s right’.

How do you change your mindset?

For many people the biggest impediment to success is themselves. The beauty of mindset is that it can be a choice, the more frequently you access a positive, growth mindset, the easier it will be to maintain it. Below are other steps that you can take to improve your mindset and consequently the results you achieve:

1 Challenge your limiting beliefs

Limiting beliefs are the stories we tell ourselves about who we really are e.g. undeserving of love or success. Hanging onto limiting beliefs causes people to continue to live in negative patterns. Replacing limiting beliefs with empowering beliefs and positive habits will enable you to reach new levels of success.

2 Face your fears

Many people operate from a place of fear, such as fear of failure, which prevents them from seeing massive opportunities. Fear is a destructive emotion which you don’t have to accept. Overcoming your fears is a major step towards changing your mindset for success.

3 Change your self-talk

Starting the process of changing your mindset can seem overwhelming, but it needn’t be. The smallest changes to the language you use and the thoughts you have can make a huge difference, for example, begin with how you start your day. If you put positive language in your head when you wake up, your day will have a positive flow.

4 Keep taking action

Successful people are not smarter or luckier, they are more likely to take action to get the result they want. Do more than talk about the result you want, take action and create it for yourself.

5 Invest in your development

Successful people not only believe they can be better, they take action to get there. If you want to change the results you are having and give yourself the best opportunity for growth, sign up for a programme, work with a coach or read more. The best part of investing in your development is the positive results you will see in your business and relationships

Sam Mills, is a mindset and results coach supporting women to rediscover their inner confidence, achieve their goals and go from just surviving to thriving. Sam delivers a number of different services including 1-1 coaching, group coaching and workshops for individuals and organisations on the inner critic and imposter syndrome. Sam can be contacted at sammillscoaching@

Sam Mills