Tony Dovale The REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE- CLEARx RightMindset www.lifemasters.co.za The MOST Important Change WE Must Make to ENSURE Long-Term Success? Mindset First! Your mindset has a total and profound impact on every aspect of your life. It determines how we react, interact, behave, perceive and engage with the world around us. Your mindset shift is vital to ensure a truly successful life. MINDSET IS THE FOUNDATION OF EVERYTHING. Our mindset is our invisible, all powerful, totally controlling, internal guiding compass of assumptions and beliefs. It controls whether we use our skills, talents, and tools like EQ, AQ, IQ, or leadership. It directly controls our SWIFT Action-Taking abilities. It makes you potentially up to 7x More Valuable in Business. A GO-Mindset, in addition to much else, opens the door to developing greater psychological Capital; Perseverance and resilience, self-efficacy and hope. In the words of the Chinese proverb; “Fall down 7 times, stand up 8”. The character strengths of persistence and resilience (bouncing back from adversity) have also become increasingly compelling in our challenging times if we are to build agile, thriving people & teams. People with a GO-Mindset tend to be more successful, effective, flexible, agile and responsive in life, challenges and relationships. Fixed mindsets tend to be more arrogant, defensive, evading, inflexible, and don’t have as much success, and are often immobilized by challenges and fear failing or not knowing. It’s important to know that the GO-Mindset has been receiving scientific confirmation from cognitive psychology and from neuroscience. MINDSET is now considered more important than skillset and toolset in ENSURING ongoing and sustainable successful achievement. Your GO-Mindset ensures your success. People with a GO-Mindset are more willing to tackle challenges. They believe that effort, perseverance and action lead to achievement and success. Growth mindset people have the belief is that a person’s qualities and abilities can grow and develop with effort, experience, discipline and engagement. Their focus is on learning mastery and competence. Results and outcomes do not determine who they are, nor affect their self-esteem, or what their potential is; Results are an indication of the amount of effort applied. People with a fixed-mindset, assume accomplishments or ability to contribute, are limited by their attributes. This thinking makes them more averse to challenge, less resilient, and ultimately, less successful. Their goal outcomes require constant validation from others. They live and work though a fear-based perspective. Perceptions of not being able to achieve an outcome, due to lack of capability, translates into not putting in the required effort, as they believe success is uncertain. This occurs even if they have the EQ, IQ, Sales, Leadership or whatever SKILLSET. Failure also lowers self-esteem, self-confidence, and creates greater levels of learned-helplessness in fixed mindset people, teams and companies. This leads to avoidance, aggression, dis-engagement and learned-helplessness. Mindsets Predict Motivation and Achievement By fostering a courageous, growth-mindset, through positive recognizing and effective praising actions, behaviors, effort, or process, rather than personal ‘attributes’ (e.g. intelligence, creativity, patience, helps others develop a growth-oriented vs a fixed-mindset. Management style and leadership impact have a strong impact on organisational & team mindsets. GO Mindsets are the new frontiers for high performers. Mindset clearly affects our ability to achieve goals and performances. Our mindset type hinders or helps us. This also determines which strategies we will apply to solve problems and challenges. Mindset controls how we respond to setbacks, the amount of energy, the level of commitment, and effort we use to tackle situations. This all impacts potential for successful goal attainment. Statistics show that a growth mindset reaches success more often and is able to maintain that level more consistently. For Leadership Talks and coaching see www.tonydovalespeaks.com

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