I’ve talked about a range of different success mindsets – scarcity or abundance and fixed or growth. They’re two pairs – one undesirable mindset and one you want to adopt because it’ll help you grow. 

And I’ve talked about some mindsets that tradies and builders often have and need to change around pricing, money and business.

This final part of the series will talk about creative visualisation and tenacity and some guidance from our psychologist, Michelle, on how you can shift a mindset (like I’m telling you you need to do).

Tenacity

There have been a good number of studies on successful businesses and successful businesspeople – and a consistent theme is ‘Tenacity’ or ‘GRIT’.

We all look around and see successful businesses or business owners that are more successful than us and we can tend to imagine that their journey to success was somehow easy and smooth unlike ours which feels like it’s characterised by failures and f#$k-ups and disappointments.

BUT.. 

…The studies say that all those successful business journeys were characterised by problems, mistakes and dead-ends as well and that the people running them kept going. They kept trying.

You need to do the same.

Be tenacious, have GRIT.

Expect failures and when they happen, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep going.

Repetition

Michelle tells us that we learn (we change our brains) through repetition. 

I don’t think it’s the only way we learn but it’s effective.

So, if you want to change a mindset, repeating to yourself the one you want to adopt is pretty effective.

Now, if you’re anything like me, the thought of walking around saying, “It’s okay for me to make a few quid,” feels a bit lame.

However, it will help.

So you should probably do it.

Schedule it in and repeat it daily, like a little meditation or a mantra 

Creative Visualisation

In a similar way, Creative Visualisation seems to train your brain that the future you’re visualising is realistic and doable (where previously, with your negative mindsets, your brain might have thought that the future was unrealistic and not doable – and therefore steered you to not do the work to get there).

It helps you do the work if you kind of believe the future is doable and you can talk yourself into it a bit with creative visualisation.

This is how you do it:

• Formulate your goal. We do this in our coaching, of course, but if you’re not working with me, you’ll have to do it on your own. Think about what you want your business to be like, say, 3 years from now.
• Think about what it will look like when you’ve achieved that goal. What will you be doing? What will work look like, your office, your vehicle, your team? Visualise it. 
• Close your eyes and see this image a couple of times a day.
• Remember to enjoy how it feels while you’re looking.
• Do it every day (repetition, remember?)

Last One – A Vision Board

Have you ever made a vision board?

You brainstorm the things you want for your future (business or that the business gives you) and you put pictures representing those things on a paper or a board and you stick it on the wall where you can see it all the time (repetition, remember?).

Cut pictures out of magazines if you’re old-school or print them off the internet if your printer is not too s#!tty.

Do it.

I know it sounds like something you’d do in primary school but the psychologists say it helps.

I know it sounds a bit Tony Robbins or a bit the ‘The Secret’ but they got it from somewhere.

You won’t magically change the universe or manifest what you want but you’ll more easily do the things you need to do to succeed.

And that’s what counts.
Get business coaching. Mindset that.