Episode #204 Master Your Mindset

Five Problems

• We will never achieve mastery in something we practice merely a handful of times.
• A negative mindset is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
• We cannot achieve our full potential if we fail to prepare our mental game.
• Most of us quit most of what we start.
• We often give up just before rounding the corner to success.

Seven Principles

• Our most meaningful successes are often preceded by our greatest failures.
• Mindset is the difference between completing and competing.
• If we desire to change our behavior, we should first focus on changing our beliefs.
• Failure today does not reliably predict failure tomorrow.
• The only thing we can ever control in life is our very next choice.
• Mindset doesn’t only matter during the race but during the training as well.
• The achievement of small goals builds our confidence to tackle larger goals.

Three Practices

• When a negative thought doesn’t serve you well, replace it with two positive thoughts.
• When your wishes and dreams for the future feel overwhelming, identify a single choice you can make today.
• Practice a three-tiered approach to setting goals so you don’t feel like a failure when achieving Goal B instead of Goal A or Goal C instead of Goal B.