Ep:6 Mindset Reset 2023: Strategies to Get You Unstuck in Life & Business

Hi, and welcome to the Brave Pivot Podcast. I'm your host, Cindy Marie Ferguson. I'm a former corporate girl turned entrepreneur, business educator, and mentor here to help you build a profitable and successful business. After the kids' corporate and chaos. On the podcast, we'll have honesty, meaningful conversations around becoming an entrepreneur, starting a business, building a brand, and my favorite. Systems and processes and so much more. If this sounds like your thing, stick around each Wednesday through guest interviews and solo episodes. I'll be providing insights, tools, business strategies, and actionable support to help you along the way on your entrepreneurial journey. Get ready for some candid conversations, inspirations and invaluable insights. I'm so delighted you're. Let's dive in and get started. Hello and welcome to the Brave Pivot Podcast. Are you feeling stuck in life and in business? Are you feeling like you're not meeting your goals and objectives that you set out to achieve? I think we can all relate to a time where we've allowed our mindset and the lack of action to get in the way and prevent us from moving from a place to where we are to where we wanna be. Being stuck can be frustrating and disheartening, but the good news is, is that a mindset reset can help you get unstuck and start making progress again. In today's podcast, I'll be talking about mindset reset, the benefit of a mindset reset and providing useful and practical strategies that you can begin implementing to help you get unstuck in life and in business, so that you can begin moving towards a path of achieving your goals and finding. Let's start by taking a closer look at mindset. Mindsets are a mental framework, a habitual way of thinking and feeling about something that informs how someone perceives inner steps. Mindsets are a mental framework, a habitual way of thinking and feeling about something that informs how someone perceives, interprets. Research develops and test information and knowledge claims. Your mindset is basically how you see. your mindset controls a lot of what you do and how you act and the choices you make, and as a result, at times we get stuck and not sure how to move forward. For example, maybe you're contemplating your next pivot. You're considering maybe leaving your nine to five and starting your new side hustle. Another example, perhaps maybe in your business you're thinking of what might be your next right business decision, such as should you hire a CEO or. Another example could be something in your personal life like you're trying to decide if you're gonna stay in a relationship, whatever you're struggling with, and keeping you from prog progress. A mindset reset can help. So what is a mindset reset. A mindset reset is a process of shifting our mindset in order to break patterns of behavior and get unstuck from our current situation. In other words, it's the process of changing your mental attitude or approach to something. It's an important tool for success as it helps you to develop a new perspective and gain clarity. It's an important tool for success as, it helps you to develop a new perspective and gain clarity so you can achieve your goals. A mindset reset. It's about shifting your perspective and letting gold of old habits and beliefs that may be holding you back by doing a reset. This enables you to make better decisions, take action, and helps transform your life. So why is it I. A mindset reset is important because it allows you to break free from limiting beliefs and behaviors and embrace new ways of thinking and acting. It can help you overcome obstacles, pursue your dreams, achieve your goals and objectives, and ultimately live a more fulfilling life. Your mindset plays a huge role in shaping your reality. If you have a fixed mindset, for example, You may believe that your abilities and your limitations are fixed and cannot be changed. This can lead you to give up easily when faced with challenges and possibly limit your potential. Now, on the other hand, if you have a growth mindset, you believe that you can learn and grow through effort and persistence. This can help you embrace challenges and opportunities for growth and move you towards reaching your. The ability to reset your mind is an important tool for personal and professional growth. It allows you to take a step back from the situation and look at it from a different perspective. The next thing I'll be talking about are the benefits from doing a mindset. There are many benefits to doing a mindset, but I'll be sharing four with you today. The first benefit is greater flexibility and adaptability. By resetting your mind, you can become more open to new ideas and perspectives, which can help you to adapt to changing circumstances more easily. The second benefit is increased resilience with the mindset reset. You can learn to see setbacks and failures as opportunities to learn and grow rather than as personal failures. This can help you bounce back more quickly from challenges and setbacks. The third benefit is increased confidence by letting go of limiting beliefs and adapting a growth mindset. You can develop a greater sense of confidence and belief in your own abilities, and the last benefit, greater success. By resetting your mindset and adapting a growth mindset, you can set better goals for yourself and be more likely to achieve them. This can lead to greater success in both life and in your business. The last thing I'll be sharing with you are five strategies for Mindset Reset. First one is practice gratitude. Focusing on what you're thankful for can help shift your mindset from a negative to a positive perspective. Try starting each day by writing down three things you're grateful for, or take a few minutes each day to reflect on the good things in your life. That's something I do every evening before I go to bed. The next is to find a role model. Look for someone who embodies the mindset you wanna adopt and use them as inspiration. What qualities do they have that you admire? How do they approach challenges and setbacks? How can you adopt these qualities in your own life? Number three, try something new. I like this one. Doing new things can help break you out of your comfort zone and give you a fresh perspective. It could be something small, like maybe you can try a new recipe or do something bigger like taking up a new hobby. Number four, reframe your thoughts. Pay attention to your internal dialogue and look for negative thought patterns. When you catch yourself thinking negatively, try to reframe your thoughts in a more positive light. For example, instead of thinking, I'll never be able to do this, try thinking this is a challenge, but I can figure it out if I work at it. And the final strategy is to get outside help. I've shared this with you before. Sometimes it can be helpful to work with a coach, therapist, or mentor to help you reset your mindset. They can help you identify limiting beliefs and provide support and guidance as you work to shift your mindset. As I close with this final thought, a mindset reset is an important step towards achieving personal growth, success, and happiness. By resetting your mindset, you can identify the areas in which you need to focus on making improvements in develop strategies for overcoming any obstacles that may stand in your way. With the mindset reset, you can create new ways of thinking that will help you reach greater heights of success in life and in business. I hope the tips and strategies I shared are helpful to you. If you're thinking about doing your own mindset reset in this new year, I invite you to try one or all of the strategies that I shared with you today. You don't have to do them all at once. Perhaps you can start with the first one and try the rest of the strategies at your own pace. If you found this helpful, please let me know. Or if you know someone who this might help, please share this episode with them. Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you enjoyed our conversation. If something I shared today resonated with you, please tag me@cindymarie.co on Instagram. If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave an honest five star review. When you do, it helps us to grow the podcast and helps others to find us as well. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you know when the new episodes are being. 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