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Why The Story You Tell Yourself Determines Your Success

Do you ever feel the story you tell yourself holds you back from achieving your life goals? Do you feel trapped by the story created for you by others?

If you say yes to both of these questions or are curious to find out more. We are here to help you shape a new story.

But first.

Welcome to mindset shift where we hope after this 5-minute read. You can take away nuggets of gold that can shift your life’s direction for the better.

The Story We Tell Ourself

We all have a story.

As a society, we are engaged with the stories of others whether they’re adventures from the past to modern-day celebrities.

When the feeling arises of I want that life for me or I want that story to be my story. Two choices arrises either yes I can do that or no that’s just not for me.

Countless times people undervalue themselves based on the stories they tell themselves. This is the major difference between someone succeeding at the life they want deep down. People have business ideas but talk themself out of them through the story they tell. A lot of people tell themselves they have to work hard all the time which has its positives but stops them from enjoying life.

The story we give to others and the story we hold for ourselves is too powerful to ignore. As this shapes our life’s fortunes.

Below are two mindset shift techniques to help you with your story. The change can be instant in the mind but the weeks that pass will be the hardest to follow through. Think about it every day and be kind to yourself when you make mistakes. You do this and I promise your story will change your life.

Two Mindset Shifts Techniques To Help You Remake Your Story

1. Evaluate your story

Your story has to come from somewhere. Either it’s forced upon you by parents, teachers and society or you have created it by the influences you have been drawn to. Sit down and ask yourself are these my stories or stories others have put on me?

Some stories will be very helpful like your parents teaching you to face your fears in life and to seek discomfort. But some stories will not be, like a career advisor telling you what you can’t do in life or society telling you the position you have to be based on race, gender or class.

Challenging these stories is how we make positive change. You just have to look back in history to see this from women’s right to vote to the end of the rule of monarchies across Europe. So find out today if your story is pushing you forward or holding you back from the story you want.

2. Examine your habits

After evaluating your story, you should next examine your habits. Here you will find a lot of the problems that stop you from growing.

Is your habit of staying up late stopping you from being energised every day or making you late for work, that stops you from progressing in your career? By examining your habits you will quickly see what’s holding you back.

Your habits are mostly subconscious on autopilot. Formed many moons ago. Challenging your habits to see if they hold up for the story you want is vitally important. A habit of eating at night isn’t going to help to change your story to the body image you desire. Blaming others for everything that goes wrong in your life isn’t going to help you be the person who finds solutions to grow in your life.

Today sit down and write down all the habits you can think of, good or bad. Then examine them one by one then shift the habits into positive change.

If a habit of picking up groceries after work leads to impulse buying. Instead, do a weekly shop on a full stomach every Sunday. These little changes can change your bank balance, mindset and how you achieve your life goals.

We At Future Mindset Expect Great Things From You

If you don’t think that anyone expects great things from you, then I’m here to tell you that I do.

I want nothing more than for our community to be filled with people who are setting their sights on goals that matter, battling to raise the bar, and enjoying the life that they are creating for themselves.

We don’t care where you’re starting from. We don’t care how far you think you are from the unreasonable goals you have for yourself.

If you’re a member of this community, then it doesn’t matter where you’re coming from because you’re not staying there. You’re becoming something better.

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Why Starting Your Day The Hard Way Slingshots Your Day For Success

Why Starting Your Day The Hard Way Slingshots Your Day For Success
sport woman running on a road. Fitness woman training at sunrise

The end of the year is very celebratory where you spend precious time with family and friends. It can also be a time to reflect and plan for the new year. What also can happen is the loss of important habits.

Habits and routines are built upon foundations that take time and effort to create. When you miss a habit for one day the foundation crumbles. Eventually if repeated over a long period continuously. The foundation of a habit is destroyed.

To make sure your foundations remain strong you have to continue to the habit no matter the effort.

This article will help you know how to manage your habits when you’re in R &R mode and also how to get your mindset back to kickstart your important habits by starting your day in a challenging way.

Why It’s Important Not To Stop A Healthy Habit

Before New Year I decided to take 2 weeks for myself and my family to go on holiday to relax after a challenging year. I changed my routine, my schedule to do whatever I wanted when I felt like it.

Some days were productive but most days were pure relaxing which was definitely needed.

Then the day came when it’s time to get back to my old routine.

The 1st week didn’t go very well. It was a battle to be productive. On reflection, I was in waiting mode. I was expecting my habits to just reappear and take care of themselves. Without realising I had formed new habits of a sleep routine, doing no exercise and eating whatever I want to name a few.

I had become very comfortable but unproductive.

I wanted to get back to the old habits I had formed that help in all parts of my life. Deep down I knew I had to do it the hard way.

At the start of the second week, I decided to go all-in on the morning routine and make it simple and easy to accomplish.

  1. Wake up before at 6 am before everyone is awake
  2. Focus solely on my health

I knew starting your day with something challenging and hard first thing in the morning it will be the foundation to build upon for the rest of my habits and routines for the day ahead.

Top Tips For Being Productive After A Rest

1. Level down

Whenever you take a break or a rest period never ever stop doing what you were doing completely. A habit is much quicker to lose than to rebuild. What you should do is level down. For example, if you work out 3 times a week bring it down to 1 or 2. If you wake up at 6 am move it to 7 am not 9 am.

Levelling down will make it easy to level up when you need to rather than scrapping it all together to rebuild it all again.

2. Make it easy to start

Research has told us that when something is easy to do. It’s a lot easier to be motivated to do it. When preparing to kickstart your habits make sure

  • Everything is laid out
  • Your environment is primed for productivity
  • Set an alarm away from arms reach
  • Practice late night visualisation of the day ahead

James Clear writes a great article on this.

3. Make it challenging

Starting your day snoozing your alarm for the 20th time, you finally drag yourself out of bed, you forget to make your bed and you know how this story will go. When it comes to doing anything challenging as the day unfolds it will be super easy to say no. Your mind and body are not primed to go to battle. It’s primed to do nothing productive.

At some point, we have all been there. That’s why your morning is so important. Starting your day with something challenging and hard to do. this could be a cold plunge in the water, a morning 5k run or simply something that you find you have put a lot of effort into. It need not last anything longer than 30 minutes but you have now just awoken your mind and body. The chemicals released have increased your energy, clarity of thoughts and mood. You are ready for more challenges and a productive day is soon followed.

I have experienced both these days one is fulfilling and the other is filled with regret over a period of time.

You are the key to the ignition of the mind and body

Start your day the hard way and make the rest of your day, week and year easier to accomplish.

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