Change Your Words And You Will Change Your Mindset

Hello, you. I would like to take this moment to zoom in on the power of your thoughts – your inner speech – the engine of how you feel and act.

But, before we engage, picture yourself on a chess board, with pawns ready to move at your mental command – the inner talk holding the true belief and power to change the position of each of them – to move to the right track of success, victory, high self esteem, improved mental health, and a positive mindset, causing a life changing, profound effect on the way you see yourself and where you move in life.

The Power of Words

Words change your mindset. It is your inner talking that is a leading factor whether you’re heading to the direction of a fixed mindset, or a growth mindset.

To put yourself onto the path of realising your dreams and not just chasing them, it is necessary and crucial to make the shift towards a growth mindset; to rid yourself of negative self talk, negative words and then making a negative mindset something from the past you are only taking lessons from and making it a source of wisdom.

Then, you’re utilising the past to move forward, instead of having it reminding you – in the worst case over and over – of all that you had been doing wrong, and making it almost inevitable to not feel (and feed!) the fear when you encounter a similar situation.

While, my dearest friend, the past is unchangeable, and all we have is this moment, the second that we lose in just one wink.

So, why don’t you spend your moments in positive thinking, in inspiring mental images, in nurturing self talk, in stimulating and positive words and among (successful) people that thrive when you thrive, for you to climb the musical notes every time you get present with yourself, and become the best version of yourself?

A Growth Mindset

Developing and sustaining a growth mindset is the solution to a low self esteem, to negative thoughts, to negative self talk, to fear of failure and making mistakes, to not believing in possibilities and chances, to avoiding adventure and stepping out of your comfort zone, and to summarise the above: to a fixed mindset.

Leaving a fixed mindset would also mean leaving behind the victim mindset. The transition gets you from the feeling of having no power to you feeling powerful, mentally resilient and unlimited.

Climbing the Mental Ladder of Becoming Truly Powerful

Here is the stairway from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.

Becoming Aware

Every step towards a change in your mental health starts with becoming aware of things that hold you back from moving into that growth mindset.

What are you telling yourself that sustain a low self esteem?

Are there perhaps people in your (close) environment triggering you to engage in negative self talk and negative thoughts?

What are your beliefs about failure and your idea of success?

What is it that you actually want for yourself? Who is the person that you want to be?

Blame & Judgment

I see people withholding themselves from becoming aware, as they feel confrontation coming their way and then rather avoid the discomfort of change than to sit in the process of freeing themselves from mental torture and forever sitting in the face of grieving past mistakes.

After becoming aware, it’s fairly normal to experience self blame and judgment towards how you’ve been handling your mental struggles.

After all, who hasn’t said to themselves: I should’ve done this differently, and way before realising this now!

Now then, allow these feelings coming to you, don’t resist, and make them the urgency drivers for to be making the change.

Because: learning about yourself shouldn’t be a rabbit hole of pain and suffering, but a road of lessons (yes, and also the hard ones) with true enjoyment coming along. So, make it rewarding by rewarding yourself. You deserve it.

Making Excuses

On the road of a growth mindset and coming from a fixed mindset, you will face your mind isn’t entirely up for change. And this makes sense, as your old thinking is still more comfortable to sit in.

But, this is the exact place where you shouldn’t give in to excuses to not do something; it’s where it’s necessary to not back down when a situation triggers you into making the same decision you would go for in the past.

Again, you can’t create from the past, it is in the now you will have to live and be who you desire to be, right in this generous, present moment.

Use your awareness to revert around the waves of making excuses to do something wonderful for your mindset. Is it the fear of failure? Is it the Imposter Syndrome you’re falling into (‘Am I good enough? Am I actually up for this?’)? What am I telling myself that is disserving and unhelpful?

Here’s some triggering questions you can ask yourself:

What am I in need of to mentally flourish?

How would I feel, was I to stop my negative self talk?

What should I be doing to optimally increase my happiness?

Am I now doing my best to engage in making the desired change?

How would I best pursue to make progress towards goal achievement?

Where would I be, was I not doing what is desirable for my mental health?

What would it take to get the truest alignment with the desired goals and the person I want to be?

It is both heaven and hell that you can create with your thoughts and positive affirmations from within to move your mindset towards a growth mindset.

By procrastinating and self-sabotaging yourself, by means of limiting beliefs you may have, you would be blocking the passageway to make that core shift in your mindset.

Hopeful Thinking

With your awareness around, blame and judgment utilised and embraced lovingly and excuses no longer playing the game as your enemy, but more like the foot on the gas pedal, hope joins in on the chess board.

Not only are you now aware of limiting beliefs, you have come to embrace them as they’re a source of wisdom and the excuses are now reminders for you to re-evaluate your thoughts.

It is this moment, with the eyes opened, that you’re experiencing you actually can mentally lead yourself to wherever you want to when you put your mind to it. It is carefully hoping, but with a growing confidence into believing.

Signs you’re in the hopeful thinking:

You had some experiences that made you start realising you weren’t being led by negative thoughts.

You’re thinking less in doom scenarios and you seem less afraid of (fearing) failure.

You’re more positive towards making the change in your mental health.

You’re looking forward to putting the effort into yourself.

Positive affirmations carry more confidence.

Acknowledgement & Believing

The positive inner talking is now making a serious impact on your mindset. You are acknowledging your potential that you have what it takes to find yourself in a growth mindset.

With your heightened awareness, you’re not only catching possible pitfalls while on the ever-going journey, it is now easier to pick up on signs that your words change your mindset.

This is where acknowledgement comes in: hope has been fuelled by the act of mentally investing and acting upon the desire to make the mental shifts, to the point where it turns into not only feeling you can do it, you believe and know you can. With every fibre of your being.

The positive affirmations you’re lovingly (re-)conditioning yourself with, you ordering and organising the words and beliefs in a positive way – perhaps by expressing this on a mindset bulletin board – are making you live to the core values you have mentally established for becoming the true you.

Becoming Inspired

Acknowledgement and genuinely believing in your potential allows you to become inspired; to make you want to search for new things to get your hands on, like books that are filled with knowledge, for you to move further and beyond.

Inspired people are not afraid to be confronted with obstacles and lessons they realise they yet have to face, they rather embrace the fact there’s greater sources out there; them being the invitation, and the example for that anyone can make a change in themselves, no matter from what starting point.

Inspiration carries a high frequency, meaning you will attract finding sources to improve and enhance the growth mindset you’re now in.

You will find yourself encountering likeminded people, you will find yourself finding books that fit your new way of thinking and that provoke you to expand it even more and you will find yourself on the move to create a world and reality some people can only hear about.

The people you surround yourself with play a part in how you change your words. Success is promised when you can exchange value with other people who can inspire you in return.

As Tony Robbins would tell you:

“Proximity is power! If you want to have an extraordinary life, surround yourself with people who make you better.”

Persisting & Owning It

This is where you find your connection and alignment with your core values, with a self esteem that is resilient whenever you encounter something that would trigger the old way of thinking.

And now, you’re not triggered to lean into that old thinking.

On this step of the ladder, you have an urge to persist in staying on the path of mental innovation. There is a fire ignited within you and you know it can only keep on burning if you feed the fire.

To evolve your Being is to evolve your Inner Words.

In other words: to grow as a person, you need to start thinking accordingly as to how you would like to perceive yourself.

The persistence comes with confidence, with joy, and with patience that your efforts will pay off, as well as that you are owning possible setbacks by embracing them as lessons, because you know they make you an authentic, whole human being.

You are no longer afraid to open doors, as you’ve come to experience life in possibilities, rather than mere chances based on luck or experiencing a reality in which you can only see how you should be questioning yourself.

It is now that you dare to step forward, to see that things are not happening to you, but happening for and through you.

Life is in your hands and you know it’s your words that change reality.

The Endnote.

There I have the stairway to a growth mindset put into words. But I must remind you of the fundamental ingredient, and that is your conscious, your awareness and your growth in authenticity. This is the greatest secret and most effortless means to make a core shift and, therefore, profound changes.

And to give you something to ponder on:

If there is self doubt I can create with my thoughts, wouldn’t I then also be able to create the opposite?

While thinking about it, remember this:

Change your words, change your mindset.

And it’s actually interesting how you can reverse it, that it’s also the mindset that changes your words in return. Quite a win-win situation, right?

Anyways…

Much love,

Anne