Your life can change when you change your mindset. But it’s not always easy to see how this is so.
Today GenuLines opens your eyes to some of the indicators.
Signs It’s Time to Change Your Mindset
“The key to abundance is to stop needing more, and to start appreciating what you already have.” – Anonymous
Everyone is talking about changing your mindset to attract what you desire. How do you know when it’s time to change your mindset?
After all, you’ve been thinking the same way for as long as you can remember.
Or maybe you’ve had a rough patch and your attitude has gotten out of whack.
The Good and The Bad
When you start having more bad days than good ones, then it’s time to change your mindset. These are some of the reasons you may want to change your mindset.
Our mindset is what produces the thoughts we have. It shapes our thinking, which controls our actions and how we process things.
If you have a negative attitude, then you start blaming and thinking the worst. Positive or healthy thoughts create a better environment.
For you and those around you.
Six Signs It’s Time to Change Your Mindset
1. You’re always focused on failure
You get angry and disappointed over every failure without celebrating your success. You see yourself as a failure.
This sends messages to your mind that you’ll fail at whatever you try to do. Instead: Keep a success diary.
Acknowledge every success every day, no matter how small.
2. You have a victim mentality
You’ve had bad experiences or others you love hurt you. It could be an event that traumatized you and you’re still holding onto those moments.
Instead: Forgive and let go of the past.
3. You have social media envy
You’re see glamorous lifestyles of people online, and it makes you feel worse about yourself. You devalue what you have.
You focus on what you don’t have or aren’t doing.
Instead: Think about what you do have and show gratitude for it.
There are billions of people on this planet and at least a billion would love to have your life.
4. You see work as a chore
You dread going to work, complain about doing the work, or think it’s a burden. Instead, see your job as a way of providing value to others and having an impact on you and others around you.
Being able to work gives you the opportunity to contribute to society.
5. You obsess about things you can’t control or change
You complain about what you can’t control. Things like the weather, government, traffic and other people.
Your mind fills with everything you don’t like, rather than what you can control, which is yourself. Identify ways to change and control your own actions and thoughts.
You’ll make your experiences more positive.
Stop complaining. Start taking action that will bring you a greater sense of accomplishment and plenty.
6. You lack gratitude for what you have
You focus on what is wrong with things or the world, or the inadequacies in yourself and others. Instead, acknowledge that no one is perfect, and everyone learns lessons as they go.
Focus on identifying the positive things you’re grateful for every day.
Know that the reason you rarely feel happy and content is because of a negative mindset.
Know that it’s time to change your mindset to feel better about yourself.
Then be ready to attract more of the good stuff into your life.
JohnK 4-24-2023
~Leo Tolstoy
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