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What Kind of Mindset Do You Have?

October 19, 2020 John Uncategorized No comments

Your mindset can take you to great heights. Or, it can keep you mired in the depths.

Today GenuLines steers you around the negative mindsets and on the path to genuine living.

(You can listen to this article by clicking on here)

What Kind of Mindset Do You Have?

Your mindset is what compels you to take a certain action or leads you back off from acting on something. It influences how you see yourself and those around you.

Different types of mindsets can mean different things to each of us. And they can say a lot about how and why you think like you do.

Each has benefits and drawbacks.

A numbers game

The number of mindsets that exist is dependent on how much you generalize them. Finding your type is key to understanding how you operate in every area of your life.

There are two main types of mindsets, Fixed and Growth. Each has benefits and downsides.

If you have a fixed mindset, you tend to believe your skills or qualities are set and you resist changing them. These include your intelligence level, and your personality or character.

This can cause you to limit yourself and focus on proving yourself to others.

Some of the sub-mindsets of a fixed mindset include these tendencies:

· Fear

· Laziness

· Envy

· Greed

· Short-term thinking

· Anger

· Tendency to follow

Characteristics include:

1. Blaming others for things that are wrong

2. Lazy habits

3. Relying on addictions

4. Insatiable and always want more

5. Self-absorbed, with little thought of others

6. Limited initiative to achieve

7. Obsessed with what others are, do or say

8. Waste time

9. Come across in a negative way

With a growth mindset, you tend to believe in a basic set of qualities. You feel you can cultivate and develop them through effort, strategy, and help from others.

Some of the sub-mindsets of a growth mindset include:

· Social

· Business

· Dreamer

· Gratitude

· Confident

· Creative

Characteristics include:

· Willing to help others

· Solve problems

· Think big and know what you want

· Feel gratitude for what you have

· Eager to learn

· Dedication to achieve and grow

· Able to change and develop skills

· Embrace challenges

· Learn from failures

What type of mindset is the basis of your thoughts and actions? Do you believe that this is how you are and can’t change?

Do you believe you can change, and things can be different for you? The good news is you can change your mindset to one of growth and abundance.

JohnK 10-19-2020

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Overheard: “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance”

~Samuel Johnson

Is True Happiness Possible?

December 26, 2019 John Uncategorized No comments

Happiness has a reputation for being elusive. Some would say it’s not even possible.

GenuLines offers you some points to consider as you do your own evaluation.

Is True Happiness Possible?

When your struggles get to be too much it’s easy to think that happiness is not even possible. The truth is there are different levels of happiness that you can experience in your life.

The process doesn’t move in a straight line. Your attitude is the difference maker.

Look Around You

It’s one thing to say that people can’t be happy unless they have their basic needs met. But there are people all around you who don’t have their needs met yet are very happy.

Studies of affluent people tend to show find they’re not happier than poor people in general.

It’s Not About Stuff

If you look at a list of the happiest countries in the world, you tend to find that being happy isn’t about owning things. Often the happiest people live in the poorest countries.

It’s common to find that the USA ranks in the teens on these lists. Stuff doesn’t guarantee happiness.

It’s Not Even About Goals

You may insist that it’s all about about reaching your goals. If you often say things like “I’ll be happy when…” then happiness may elude you.

You can be happy now, before you reach your goals.

It’s Not About Your Circumstances

Now, of course, some things in life can really get you down. But a happy disposition can serve you well.

You’ll be better able to navigate the murky water.

*Dr. Gillian Mandich is a well known name in this area. She believes that our circumstances account for only 10 percent of our happiness.

Happiness is about accepting that you can experience it and understanding it’s meaning. A happy person isn’t going to be the same level of happy 24/7, 365 days a year.

Think about cancer sufferers who manage to have a happy attitude. Or children around the world who don’t get enough to eat.

Be in that state of mind and you can be happy, too.

JohnK 12-26-2019

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Overheard: “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

~Lucille Ball

*Dr. Gillian Mandich

Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace: My Kind of Business Model (plus a look at this week’s Chi For Yourself)

May 7, 2014 John Uncategorized No comments

Plan to be with us on Thursday May 8th as Chi For Yourself welcomes Melonie Dodaro. Melonie was named Canada’s #1 LinkedIn expert and social media strategist! She’ll be talking about social media marketing and about the launch of her new book The LinkedIn Code: Unlock The Largest Online Business Social Network to Get Leads, Prospects & Clients for B2B, Professional Services and Sales & Marketing Pros. The interview gets underway at 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern time.

You’ll be able to hear it on chiforyourself.com. I’m sure you’ll what you hear!

Melonie Dodaro

Article: Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace: My Kind of Business Model

In the brave new world of business, mindfulness is not often the normal state of consciousness when we go to work every day. We compete with our co-workers, and tune out customers in a bid to get ahead.

Business ethics that lean toward the quest for the almighty dollar at any cost displace humanity, but we can change that. Kindness to our colleagues in the form of cooperation can end workplace disagreements. Listening to what the customer says, instead of tuning them out and giving the standard, ‘I can’t help you’ answers can bring the human element of caring back to business.

The corporate culture is so often driven by an ego-based mindset that works on the old “dog-eat-dog” mentality dominated by fear, greed, power, and control- all fertile ground for scarcity, separateness, limitation, and the need to be combative in order to succeed. Both individuals and the workplace itself (and the work getting done) benefit from cultivating a healthy workplace environment.

Automation may be a preferable business approach but it allows us to forget human values. Next time your coworker is stressed and trying to make a deadline, ask her if you can assist. Next time a customer needs a hand, listen and really try to help him toward a solution. Even in an impersonal environment of automation, we still need humanity to survive.

JohnK 5-7-2014

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