Unbreakable Mindset: Effort and Attitude measure success
Writer: Cole Dale
Having the right mindset in life is the only way to succeed or make it anywhere you want to in this world. The physical world we live in is brought about by the power of each individual's mind power. That mind power has given us all the wonderful things we all have in our lives today. But, is a powerful mindset just given to a person or can someone actually work on it? The only real posible way is to believe that we can all have a positive mindset in whatever were trying to achieve in life, whether that is through school, sports or entrepreneurship. If people who weren’t born into success can change their situation and make a better life for themselves, that is clear evidence that your mindset is a powerful tool. That also means it can be manipulated and molded for usage in each person’s life.
In the home page of this website, I have set up the stepping stone of becoming the ideal version of yourself, which starts with having a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset. A growth mindset means that you believe in your mind that you have the ability to grow in any way possible to achieve what you want. This means that any failure you have along your journey, you understand and realize that it is a learning lesson rather than “failure”. In business described by author Christian Harrison, “Failure isn’t pleasant but it is inevitable. And often, it is a stepping stone on the way to success. This is especially true in entrepreneurship. Given the considerable degree of uncertainty and ambiguity associated with starting and running a business, failure is a common phenomenon.” In business and in life, failure is going to happen, it is how you respond to the adversity that gets you to the success you want.
It’s not easy to have a positive mindset all the time especially when things aren’t going your way. How is it possible that we have some of the greatest athletes and businesspeople in this world, and it seems like they got lucky? It is because they have an itching desire to be the best there ever was and that all starts in their head. If you really think about it, just like I said in the first paragraph, everything that has been brought about the physical world once started as a thought and a dream in a human being’s head. Knowing this, there is a possibility for everyone, no matter how smart, how skillful, no matter how young, how naive, anyone can achieve their dream if they have a relentlessly strong mindset. One of my favorite books I’ve ever read was David Goggins's book, Can’t hurt me. In this book, he explains his life story of how he went from 300 pounds, a father who beat him and his mother, to someone who went through BUDs Navy Seal training 3 times in one year and also ran multiple 100 mile races and iron mans. I mean that man has an unbreakable mindset built from the struggle and pain he went through. He didn’t sit in his room feeling sad or sorry for himself, he got up at 4am went on runs, and biked to work every day. What I love about his story is his relentless ability to have unhuman-like self-discipline and push himself to the edge every time he sets his mind for something. One of the quotes from the book that I love is, “It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.” If you put yourself into uncomfortable situations you will be more equipt to face the hard situations that come about in your life. David Goggins has made me realize that you are a lot more powerful than you think, you can always push yourself more than your body can take, and you can always go that extra mile.
There are not a lot of things you can’t control in this world, luck and risk are one in the same, meaning they can come about and affect every person each way. The only way to really score your success in anything you do, rather than measuring by results, is by measuring your effort and attitude towards whatever you’re trying to achieve. Having a good mindset won’t guarantee success but what it does do, is let you bounce back after something that didn’t go your way and help you to stay on course. I’ll leave this with one of my favorite quotes from a book I read last year called Old School Grit: Times may change, but the rules for success never do, “It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, those who achieve greatness are those who decide to achieve greatness”
Sources
Cant hurt me David Goggins
https://theconversation.com/entrepreneurs-know-that-failure-is-sometimes-necessary-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-them-192438
Old School Grit: Times may change, but the rules for success never do
