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A target of reaching mastery is an exceptional task to achieve. Reaching mastery in the mind is the ticket to success and wellbeing in your life. In today’s article, 4 ways to master your mindset for success and wellbeing. You will understand how and why mastering the mindset is the very foundation for anyone’s success and mental wellbeing.

At the end of the article, you should come away with greater clarity of what to do next to master your own mindset.

What Is Mindset Mastery?

4 Ways To Master Your Mindset For Success And Wellbeing

Mastery is when the mind and body reach autonomy. A state of flow and skill matched together to create a winning formula. Examples in real life are. A surgeon doing open-heart surgery effortlessly or a Michelin star chef creating food masterpieces.

These people are at the very top of their game and their mind has fully mastered the basics of what they do. Mindset mastery however is not fixed it’s an ever-growing process. The foundations are strong which allows for creative growth to unfold to get better and better at what they do.

Mindset Mastery

The decade of the ’90s. Michael Jordan achieved mindset mastery. During his youth, he mastered the fundamental basics of basketball. The unseen work and hours of practice that goes into becoming a master at anything.

What made Michael Jordan the worlds best basketball player though wasn’t just his mastery of playing basketball which he was undoubtedly a master of. It was his mindset that he mastered to make him the best of all time. His competitiveness, attention to detail, his standards of others, how he got himself focussed on cue over anything he desired. His relentlessness was like no other. He mastered the athlete’s mindset needed for success.

When it comes to mindset mastery of a healthy mindset. It’s very much attainable for everyone to achieve compared to being a master musician or a master neuroscientist.

The 3 Laws Of Mastery

David Pink from the bestselling book Drive discusses the three laws of mastery. Following these 3 laws, we make mastery inevitable.

1. Mastery Is A Mindset

David Pink discusses that mastery can only come by mastering the mind. He points to work done by Dr Carol Dweck where she focuses on developing a growth mindset in life. She states having a growth mindset where learning and growth are infinite vs a fixed mindset which is finite of growth.

Furthermore, to reach mindset mastery first you have to realise it’s something based on learning, not performance. The reason for this is that learning is never-ending and focussing on a performance goal is a set target. So having an incremental theory mindset based on growth is inevitable in the attainment of mastery.

2. Mastery Is Pain

Achieving any form of mastery is going to push someone’s mind in a challenging way. Learning to have GRIT is one of the most important qualities someone can have when achieving mindset mastery. Not being sidetracked by failure, not giving up when the mind and body want to. Understanding that mastery hurts not for one day but over multiple years in your pursuit of mastery. It’s also progressing where you have long periods of time with little improvement on the eye which can be painful to watch.

3. Mastery Is An Asymptote

In simple terms, this means that mastery can never be touched. It’s an ever-evolving process you have to keep striving for. Lewis Hamilton is the master of Formula 1 driving but when he’s completing his qualifying lap and reaches pole position. There’s always a way he can go faster. Understanding that you can always get better will help keep you a master of the mind. Just like any garden. When you stop taking care of it, the weeds will come and your garden will be overwhelmed. The never-ending road of mastery is the very attraction for mastery.

Why Mindset Mastery Is Vital To Your Success & Wellbeing

Attaining mindset mastery should be everyone’s goal. When it comes to success it’s what sets you apart from everyone else. When the skills we possess are similar. The one thing that really separates the best from the rest is the mind.

There’s been plenty of people you know in your own life or have seen in the sporting world who are super talented. But for some reason, they never reach their true potential. The reason is the mind has not been mastered. This is why it’s important to follow the principles below. To help you master your mindset as well as learning from people who have.

The same principle applies to your wellbeing too. Anyone who is stressed, anxious or can’t focus. Have not mastered the mindset. Compared to people who have.

Their lives based on wellbeing are completely different. Success and wellbeing together are the ultimate partnerships and need different parts within the mind to make them work. By taking time to make this a priority. Working your way to mindset mastery will literally change your life in many ways.

4 Ways To Master Your Mindset For Success And Wellbeing

1. Let Go Of All Negative Feelings For Success And Wellbeing

When developing mindset mastery. The mind needs to be at peace to be at its ultimate best. Letting go through forgiveness is the path to freeing yourself from negative feelings. Making it a mainstay as part of your weekly routine. You can rid yourself of unwanted feelings that can linger on for a long time. Depending on how long you have held on to a negative feeling. Don’t be surprised if it’s difficult to let go. Showing emotion during the process is normal and shows it’s working. Once the habit is in place. Mindset mastery is one step closer.

2. Create Habits To Fulfil Your Progress To Mindset Mastery

Mindset mastery can only be realised by the habits you have in your life. The consistent routines of habits bring you success and wellbeing. It will lead to autonomy and allow the mind to focus on challenges that could affect the mind daily. Within the mind, you should treat the habits you form as bricks on a wall. Each habit will fortify the wall and allow you to tackle bigger and bigger problems. That will help better your life.

3. Mindset Mastery Comes From Engagement

Engagement comes from enjoyment in what you’re doing. That’s even if it’s challenging. Being engaged is how mindset mastery is formed. You can’t expect to get better at anything that betters the mind if you’re not engaged. Finding that engagement is imperative for overall wellbeing and success for your future.

4. Having A Growth Mindset Forms Mindset Mastery

C. S. Dweck coined the phrase growth and fixed mindset. On your journey to mindset mastery. You can’t have a fixed mindset. As it will stop all growth to wellbeing and success. The journey to mindset mastery comes from finding solutions to challenges.

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 4 ways to master your mindset for success and wellbeing

If you’re struggling with dealing with mastering your own mindset. Don’t worry you’re not alone. Millions of people go through the same experience every day. I hope the article has helped in some way. If you need extra help or any questions answered. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

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Do you ever dwell on your failures? In today’s article, 5 ways to overcome the mind when it dwells on failure. Is to help anyone who deals with failure which is in fact, everyone. Learn how to control it with simple techniques anyone can do. Failure is a part of life and when we accept this, then the mind can overcome the failure by learning from it and fighting back to win again. Building mental strength in this area is so important for future growth.

Finding It Hard To Overcome Failure In The Mind?

Don’t worry your not the only one. Of course, no one likes failure. It’s a painful experience especially when you have put in so much effort to come up short. Everyone’s failures are unique to them but there is a difference between people who are successful and people who are not and it’s how they deal with failure. How we deal with failure says a lot about our character and whether or not we are overcoming our failures.

I have found it hard to deal with failures. When it’s a failure I can immediately try again straightway like a sales rejection or a loss on a FIFA 21 I can take that in my stride. But when it’s a failure I have to wait to try again or it takes a long time to achieve I found it much more difficult to deal with until I learned how to.

Dealing with failure badly can come from the social pressure we face. No one wants to look bad in front of people. But unfortunately, we live in a society that pounces on failure and makes you relive it again and again. This is something that we all need to give up. Caring about what people think about our failures.

For the mind to be strong we need to make our failures our own. Owning the battle scars of battle, the epic story we have to tell others or the opportunity to be a real-life superhero for a chance to rise up again.

How we think about something is important, how we think about our failures is near the top of that list. This will be the difference between whether we fight back or stay knocked down. What would you rather do?

What Happens If Failure Controls Your Life?

When we can’t deal with failure it will start to ruin our mental health, relationships and progression in life. The negative effects are huge if you live in your failure. You will become sick, your body we start to have less energy and your mind will feel heavy. This is from personal experience and it’s not a place you want to be.

Dealing with failure is a skill that anyone can learn. But we are not taught this in school. We only learn this if we are lucky from parents and coaches or the hard way. Too many people who have failed think such negative thoughts, that they’re a loser, they’re not good enough etc. But if you could teach yourself to always find the positive in difficult moments you would be able to deal with any failure that comes your way.

By changing how you talk to yourself. Words are powerful, it can move people into action for good or bad. The words you speak to yourself are just as important if not more. When you fail tell yourself instead I’m going to win next time, I am good enough to solve this problem. This will send your brain on a different path. A path that’s good for all parts of your life.

How To Overcome Failure And Achieve Success

We have to treat failure like a message. A message we receive to let us know this isn’t the right way to do it. A message that lets us know there’s a better way we have to pursue to gain our success. I’ve watched Manchester City a football club in England attempt to reach the champions league final.

For 10 years they have tried. First getting knocked out at the group stages for two years. Then the last 16 and quarter-finals. Now the final. By learning and adapting from our failures whether that be in the mind, our skillset or our strategy. This is when we can achieve success on a consistent basis.

5 Ways To Overcome The Mind When It Dwells On Failure

1. Find Inner Peace

Finding your inner peace is crucial to helping the mind when dealing with failure. When failure hits it can be a crushing feeling, you know how it feels yourself. Letting that foster only leads to more chaos but finding a way to deal with failure inwardly is a necessary step to move forward from failure.

A technique that has helped when I fail is to forgive myself and others who are part of the failure. This is great for letting go of all the negative emotions that come with failure. By taking time to sit with your thoughts and put them on paper not only release the negative energy but also contributes to solutions to move forward.

2. Look At The Big Picture

The emotion of failure is unique to everyone. What means something to you might not mean something to someone else.

I have had failures in my life where now I look upon them and laugh at how I reacted at that moment as it wasn’t that big of a problem looking in on the experience. As the saying goes if won’t affect you in 5 years time, it’s something we shouldn’t worry about in the present.

Time will always pass and what is now will not always be. Having this mindset allows me not to dwell in my present failures but look from the perspective of the photographer or video director on your failure and you will get a completely different outlook on failure.

3. Have A Pre- Emptive Habit

What I have learned through experience is to be prepared for failure. Understanding it will come allows the mind to be prepared for the eventuality of failure. I understand when parenting I’m going to mess up sometimes or when I start a business one of them might fail.

This mindset has helped when failure has occurred and has become less of a shock when it does. Expecting to win and succeed is great but understanding winning and success is like war, some battles will be lost along the way. This mentality will help with inner peace and thinking big picture about your failures.

4. Block Out The External Noise

Failure can be even deadlier when others look down upon your failure. This can hurt a lot for the mind. What truly makes you mentally strong and take every failure in your stride is blocking out all external negativity or having a wall so strong that it does not get through. Your failures are yours. Yours alone. Taking responsibility for your failures. Will go a long way for you not to fear failure and take it on the chin when it comes along.

By training your internal voice to be a positive one by creating an alter ego of a coach you admire. To delegate the task of helping you recover from failure in your stride. Will help you be in full control.

5. Learn From Your Failures

The most important of all is learning from your failures. Making the same failures, again and again, can be a painful reminder of not learning from your failures. Having time to sit down to analyse what went right and what went wrong will help to find solutions.

By networking with your findings it will help you to understand better what to do next. Having a toddler brain for learning is crucial. When a toddler falls down, or can’t say the right words, they find solutions, they persist and through learning from their failure they always overcome the challenge that’s in front of them.

Learning from your failures is how you will deal with your failures and this is what keeps the mind from dwelling on failure.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 ways to overcome the mind when it dwells on failure. Knowing that failure is not permanent but it’s a part of life can help you overcome any failure that comes your way. Practice the techniques above and I’m sure you will able to move on from failure much faster than before.

Hi I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.