7 Mindsets

Empowering Minds- A Family Guide to the 7 Mindsets- Passion First

1. Focus on Strengths
Everyone has things he or she does well. When you do the things you are good at, you perform better and get better results. And better results mean greater benefits, both to yourself and to those around you. It is critical to play to your strengths in life, and to spend time doing the things you’re best at in order to create the most value for yourself. It is also important to know that your strengths are much more than just things you do well (e.g., math, sports, music); they also involve situations in which you thrive and the people with whom you are at your best. You must understand all these strengths to multiply your successes. 

2. Explore Your Interests
We all have things we enjoy doing. When you like doing something, you do more of it, even in your free time. When you’re doing things that energize and engage you, your focus is greater, and you perform better and improve faster. Doing these things more often, with a greater degree of intensity, allows you to become great at them. And when you’re great at something, the world notices, and your value to others increases. When this happens, more wonderful things flow into your life.

3. Take a Stand
It is very important that you play to your strengths and interests whenever possible. It is equally important that what you do is important to you and your life. What you do must matter to you. No matter what dream you choose, there will be challenges to attaining it, and some of what you will have to undertake along the way may not be something you’re necessarily good at or enjoy. So you must understand what your core values are and always have them in mind. You will always be your strongest when you are acting from your values. You will act with your greatest power, and you will be able to overcome all obstacles and challenges.

4. Be Authentic
Great dreams must start from within. To do something extraordinary, the dream must leverage your strengths and interests, align with who you are (your core values), and matter greatly to you. When all of this is in place, you are your most capable and will perform at your best. The combination of performance and persistence is the core ingredient to the fulfillment of all great dreams.

Empowering Minds- A Family Guide to the 7 Mindsets- We are Connected

1. Embrace Everyone
Every person who comes into your life has the potential to help you, hurt you, or have no impact on you at all. It makes sense to figure out how that person may be able to help you, because the other options mean that you aren’t getting closer to your dreams. People who live great lives embrace everyone, and constantly seek ways to serve and be served by the people with whom they come into contact.

2. Maximize Positive Relationships
There are people in your life who lift you up and make you better. Unfortunately, there are also those people who can bring you down. Work to spend more time with people who empower you, and less with those who don’t. Seek ways to get more out of and put more into the great relationships in your life.

3. Build Your Dream Team
Identify and build your Dream Team. These are the people who will help you live your dreams. Perhaps they have experience you can draw from, access to resources you will need, or can provide you with valuable support as you start living your dreams. The important step is to recognize the critical role others will play in your life, and deliberately begin developing relationships that will help you.

4. Lead with Value
When you find people who can help you in life, you want to start building those relationships quickly so the cycle of giving can begin. A lesson many have learned is that if you offer help before you ask for help, you will ultimately get much more out of the relationship. Look for ways to lead with value to supercharge the relationship.

Empowering Minds- A Family Guide to the 7 Mindsets- 100% Accountable

1. Own Your Life
If you give away your ultimate freedom, the freedom to act and think for yourself, you become a victim. It happens when you allow the opinions and actions of others to matter more than your own. Begin the process of owning all aspects of your life and actions, taking responsibility for your situation and every moment of your life from now on. If you do, you will be in control, rather than allowing others to control your life.

2. Overcome Limiting Beliefs
The greatest limitations in life are those you place on yourself. They come in the form of fears, excuses, and the counter mindsets. It is these limiting beliefs that inhibit
confidence and drive ineffective or destructive behaviors. You can and must reprogram your thinking to overcome limiting beliefs.

3. Focus Your Energy
There are 24 hours in a day. People who get the most out of life do the most with the time they have. They spend more time doing things that give them energy and use their energy to learn and accomplish what is important to them. You must constantly restructure your time so that you get the most out of all the moments you have. When you do this each day, you’ll be taking larger and more powerful steps toward living your dreams.

4. Grow Through Life
Life is a process of continual growth. Recognize this and seek to learn from all experiences, good and bad. When you do so, you will constantly get better. You must also proactively develop your strengths and build new skills. Once you do this, you will have truly become 100% accountable and capable of creating the life of your dreams.

Empowering Minds- A Family Guide to the 7 Mindsets- Attitude of Gratitude

1. Treasure Yourself
Create the fantastic life you want by cultivating the great things within yourself. We all have things we don’t like about ourselves, but we must recognize that we’re made of more wonderful things than not. Recognize the treasure that is you, cherish and develop it, and let it shine so that you can live the extraordinary life you’re meant to.

2. Be More Grateful
You have the choice in life to focus on the good or the bad. If you focus on what you enjoy and are privileged to have, these things will multiply, and you’ll be on the path to your dreams. If your attention is on regret, jealously, anger, and resentment, these elements will replicate, and you’ll continue to experience more and more negative circumstances. Simply be more grateful. As often as you can, think about the good things in your life, as well as those that may be coming to you.

3. Thank It Forward 
One guaranteed way to feel better and become happier is to do something for someone else. And one of the most powerful things you can do for someone is express gratitude for who they are and what they have done for you. Thanking someone provides two wonderful gifts: it makes the other person feel good and gives you good feelings in the process.

4. Elevate Your Perspective
People who have lived great lives point to moments of adversity and challenge as the times when they learned critical lessons or built essential skills that allowed them to be successful. Knowing that, you can understand why it is important to seek the positives in all situations, even those that seem completely negative. When you do this, you get better, learn, and grow in essential ways that let you live a richer and fuller life.

Empowering Minds- A Family Guide to the 7 Mindsets- Live to Give

1. Stretch Yourself
Live to Give can sound a little bit selfish. While the best way to get what you want is to give what you can, the real point is to give because it is the right thing to do. When you live your best life, you do the things you are great at, and get the best results. These results benefit you, but they also benefit others and the world around you, and that is the reason to do it. Oprah Winfrey gives millions of dollars to charity, but none of that will likely impact the world as much as the inspiration her talk show has provided to millions of viewers.  Great teachers have an enormous impact simply by being great teachers. And you will give the most simply by being
your very best and by living your ultimate life.

2. Make a Difference
The easiest and quickest way to feel better and become happier is to help someone. Amazingly, we have also learned that the best way to get things you want into your life is to start giving. When you do this, you create value with your life and get good things in return. To start or expand the flow of abundance into your life, simply start making a difference every day in every little way you can.

3. Receive Gracefully
One of the hardest things for people to deal with when they start living their dreams is that they are uncomfortable receiving the new and wonderful things that come into their lives. They may not feel worthy, or it may just be uncomfortable for them. So, when opportunity knocks or people want to help them, they shut the door and don’t let the good things in. These gifts will give you new energy and power to do more and help more in your own life. By not receiving gracefully, you cut off the cycle of giving and limit your own potential.

4. Create a Legacy
The only thing of significance any of us leave behind is the impact we had on others and the world. The true meaning of your life happens when it transcends and becomes greater than you as a person. To leave a legacy, find your passion, then orient your life around the legacy you want to leave. Make your life transcend you.

Empowering Minds- A Family Guide to the 7 Mindsets- The Time is Now

1. Embrace Every Moment
One measure of your life is how you feel in each moment. To what degree do you experience positive emotions like joy, love, gratitude, and empathy? When you embrace every moment, you squeeze the most out of your experiences and live a life of greater joy and happiness. Seek circumstances and moments that create joy and memories. Even in tough times, like the loss of someone close to you, you experience love, and while sad, it can be a rich and positive emotion for your life.

2. Get in the Zone
When we act out of anger, jealously, or confusion, we often get something wrong, and cause more harm than good. Try to recognize when you are out of sorts, stop what you’re doing, and figure out a way to get in a better state of mind. When you can do this, you’ll get into your zone, and the actions you take will be much more effective and result in a far more positive outcome. This is not to say that acting out of anger should never happen. Justified anger is real, like when you see others bullying or discriminating against someone. The key is to be sure you are acting appropriately and out of necessity. But in any situation, it is vital to think before you act.

3. Let Yourself Be Vulnerable
When you are vulnerable, you are in a heightened state of emotion or energy. Whether you are attacking a fear, taking a risk, or expressing a deep feeling, your senses come alive, and you really are at your best. Many people don’t allow themselves to be vulnerable, believing it is a sign of weakness. In fact, allowing yourself to be vulnerable is one of the strongest of human traits. Some of the greatest moments in life happen when you’re at your most vulnerable: applying for a job, proposing to your life partner, or confronting a family member after an offense. To become great, you must put yourself in positions of vulnerability.

4. Act with Purpose
While all action is powerful, the actions you take that align with your dreams are even more powerful. First, they resonate with who you are and matter to you, motivating you to try harder and work to overcome more. Second, this ensures you’re taking steps directly toward reaching your dreams, which makes your actions more meaningful to the overall quality of your life. Ask yourself about the actions you take. Is this action moving me toward the life I want? Or is it distracting me from my dreams?