When speaking to facing the future, Winston Churchill famously said, “It’s always wise to look ahead… but difficult to look further than you can see.” Most coaches know how important your mindset is. And it is not only for your business growth, but for your personal growth as well.
Mindset is where business and the personal collide. It is where they grow, where YOU grow, into something bigger, something better, something much more powerful. Mindset is key to your future and to your success.
Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
A growth mindset is essential to your ongoing journey of success. It involves possitive attitude, expression of gratitude, strategic thinking, strong belief in yourself, and a take-action response.
If you do not have a growth mindset, you have a fixed mindset. With a fixed mindset you probably do not believe in yourself. You will find yourself questioning every decision you have ever made.
A growth mindset starts with asking the right questions; questions like:
- In what ways could the future unfold?
- Which forces are actually in our control?
- What is the full range of choices we have?
But how do you teach mindset, especially when it comes to adults? Is their mindset not already fixed in place after years of stagnation and what my friend calls, stinking thinking?
How Do You Teach Mmindset?
You cannot just say to your students, "Stop questioning yourself," and expect things will change. Well, sure, you can say that, but it is not actionable advice. You are not mentoring someone to understand their problem, or to create the solution.
One of the mindset tools you can use as a coach, guide, or mentor, is "reframing".
Reframing is where you put a different spin on something that is weighing on your mind.
Imagine for a moment that you have, for example, failed your driving test. Instead of thinking of it as the end of the world, and of course blinders on your freedom, think of it as a small roadblock to your future success. Find the detour.
You know that a few more lessons will ensure you are a safer driver and, therefore, safer to yourself and others on the road. Passing your driving test is not a lucky break, or a fluke, but a hard won right. It will be something you have earned it. Try again!
Reframing is not the only tool you can use to teach mindset to your students or clients, either.
Reflection is an important action that is often passed over. When you reflect upon something with a growth mindset, you find the hidden opportunities. In fact, when you reflect on anything with anyone who has the top 5 strategic mindset elements in play, you will always find new opportunities.
Understanding the top 5 strategic mindset elements is the first step in being able to nurture and adopt a growth mindset. These elements are:
- Taking the long view – While it is true the past offers critical lessons and the present is where actions are taken and decisions get made, having a long-term future orientation opens up choices and possibilities because it is unimpeded by any and all of the limitations of the present reality.
In making decisions, do you start from the unconstrained opportunities the future offers and work backward to determine your current choices or begin with a more confined and “realistic” set of options? Get outside your comfort zone, outside the box. In fact, have no box at all!
- Starting from the No Box At All context – Outside-in thinkers look for opportunities and threats in the contextual environment (social, technological, political, economical, and increasingly epidemiological forces), before narrowing in on reality and the decisions they do control.
Do you systematically consider the impact of forces you do not control or focus more directly on those forces you do control? Start with a broader, unconstrained, reach and work backwards.
- Challenging the conventional wisdom – Long-established, familiar ideas and routines breed predictability, certainty and, often times, unrivaled rigidity. They are the enemy of innovation and disruption unless they are challenged by multiple competing plausible scenarios.
Do you depend on an implicit understanding of your core business assumptions or do you explicitly surface and interrogate the assumptions to determine which ones are based on habits and which are well-grounded? The latter is the right choice.
- Making sense through synthesis – There is generally more data, information, and insight to process than time available to interpret or act on it. This creates a need to separate the signal from the noise in order to rapidly infuse a broad range of information without ignoring the key information.
Do you rely on a small set of credible and dependable sources to inform your view or do you systematically scan, synthesize, and process information from a broad array of inputs? You know the right answer here!
- Being purposefully optimistic – Positivity and an optimistic outlook transform challenges into opportunities and victims into responsible leaders. This is the foundation, the corner stone, of a solution orientation, offering a wide range of viable and attractive choices.
Are you generally focused on risks, concerns, and the threat of loss or do opportunities, the upside, and potential wins catch your attention? Got it!
Teaching Mindset Is Not Easy!
Often, when learning, students and clients want to hide their patterns of thinking. This is due to being stuck in a pattern of fixed mindset. They do not want to feel shame, saddness, or frustration, for decisions they have made in the past. And just telling them to stop being a victim, or to take responsibility, will not change this.
The way you help your students or clients change is by taking small, but powerful actions.
The first transformation to make is to change their mindset on learning. When you focus on what is learned rather than output or ROI, your student or clients start to feel empowered. That is one small change.
Of course, you do not ignore the results, but the hard focus and emphasis shifts from what you get to what you learn. It is a subtle yet powerful action.
You will see this in action on all of Content Sparks' white label course pages. You will notice they focus heavily on the modules, and what you learn from each section. The outcomes appear naturally.
Content Sparks does not avoid the expected results, and all of their course content contains learning objectives so your students' expectations are managed properly.
Combined with this mindset shift around learning, you will find Content Sparks' white label courses easier to teach and your students will find them easy to get results from!
Embrace Your Mistakes.
This is an important part of a growth mindset. You cannot avoid either making mistakes or not talking about the ones you have made. This keeps you out of the growth mindset zone and stuck in the fixed mindset realm.
Sharing your mistakes after you have reflected upon, and reframed, them builds an amazing connection with your audience. They find you relatable.
When you teach mindset to your students, you will see their epiphanies expressed on their faces! One small change to their mindset and they can connect with their audience in ways that have eluded them in the past!
Having read this far, I am sure you are thinking about what you can do to create a mindset course to teach your students.
Look no further, Content Sparks have just the thing for you!
But, before I show it to you how you can teach mindset, you need some mindset shifts of your own around the whole idea of Private Label Rights (PLR - also called White Label) content.
Here Is What The Fixed Mindset Thinks About White Label Courses
- Everyone has the same content. Someone will know I have purchased mine.
- Everyone has the same content so no one will learn anything new.
- Aren't white label courses for those who do not really know the content and cannot create a course for themselves?
Here Is What The Growth Mindset Thinks About White Label Courses
- Teachers use the same content to teach in schools, but they put their own unique spin on it. I am doing the same.
- I love that I save hours by using white label content to deliver properly structured course that not only reduces refunds, but also helps my students get better results.
- White label courses enable me to save hours of valuable time so I can focus on my own growth mindset.
If you are more aligned with the growth mindset, you will love this Mindset Mastery white label course from Content Sparks.
Mindset changes happen really quickly and easily when you teach mindset the right way. Content Sparks has made things easier for you with their Mindset Mastery course. Take a look and see how you can boost your own mindset, then get ready to transform the lives of your students!
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