Overcoming My Fixed Mindset for Learning New Skills
Fixed mindsets aren’t always that obvious. Recently, I enrolled in a new course and struggled to make progress. After some reflection, I discovered I was getting in my own way of learning.
Fixed mindsets aren’t always that obvious. Recently, I enrolled in a new course and struggled to make progress. After some reflection, I discovered I was getting in my own way of learning.
Every morning since moving to a seaside town in Ireland, I take a walk by the seaside and ask myself one question that unlocks breakthrough thinking.
Good habits were always a nice-to-have for me. Then I realized they could lay the groundwork for exponential growth if I set them with greater intention and desired outcomes.
For 20 years I have been chasing the perfect morning routine. Then I realized that I shouldn’t be working for my morning routine. Instead my morning routine should be working for me.
Just when you think you know all there is to know, it turns out there is so much more to discover and learn. Last year, I discovered the artisan world of champagne and there’s no turning back.
Sometimes I think back to all of the things I should have started or done earlier in life. It makes me wonder if it’s too late to start now. A walk by the seaside helped me have a breakthrough shift in my thinking about this.
Stepping into new roles with no experience is scary. One switch I made after 20 years taught me that reinvention was possible and exciting!
Small decisions, minor changes, little tweaks. These may just be powerful enough to change our lives. If you want to change your life, you have to consider doing one thing differently today. You may be one decision away from breakthrough and success. Do not miss this opportunity.
I recently started reading The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle, a book about unlocking the neurological secrets of developing skills in sports, art, music, math, and just about anything. In this blog post I discuss the insights I have learned so far and how I tested them with my own personal experiment.
I’ve learned something over and over again. It seems no matter how much I plan for success, it never quite happens how I planned. In fact, my success turns out better than I planned. To be honest, some things went according to plan, however, with reflection I realized that I never planned things quite as […]