What’s your mindset?

“Briefly, your mindset is the combination of your experiences, values, beliefs, self-image, attitudes and habits that are lodged in your unconscious mind. They determine every action and every result you have in your life.”
— James Arthur Ray

Your mindset is completely unconscious, and yet it is what drives all your actions and results in your life. As James Arthur Ray points out, there has been much talk about mindsets in the last ten years, however, very few people know what they are and even less know how to address and change them.

Success in change comes by dealing with the foundational cause in your mindset. This means that even if you have the knowledge or the skills to live a better or more successful life, if the underlying mindset doesn’t support that knowledge, change will not occur.

I am not suggesting that skills and knowledge are not important because they are. But you can only utilize them if they are laid upon a firm foundation of winning thought. This is much more than just motivation, affirmations, or “positive thinking.” If you want to change or improve your results, you must change and improve yourself at the root or causal level — your mindset! Long-term success is not just about acquiring new skills … it’s about shifting your mindset.