This week I thought I’ll share my 7 mindset flips to enter a mindset of possibilities and access your full potential. If you want to dig deeper into the content, check out my free ebook!
Time for some more flippin’!
Flip 5: Excuses >> Results
This flip might be a little uncomfortable at first. But to create your ideal professional life it’s a necessity. The truth is that either you have excuses or you have results. And you want results, right? That means you’ll have to pick up the baton and run. It’s your professional life and you are the one that will make it happen.
No time, no money, not the right competence, not the right network… We’re very creative when it comes to finding out excuses for not taking action. To create your ideal professional life, you need to be aware of your most common excuses. Once you know it’s an excuse, you can make a choice whether you want that excuse or if you rather want the result.
As a former engineer, I have to say something about Newton here 🙂 Newton’s laws of motion states that an object in motion stays in motion. Means the tricky part is to get started. Once you’re moving it gets much easier. To get past you excuses: start with a step almost ridiculously small – and take action.
To quote a famous sports brand: Just Do It.
50 Results I’m Proud Of This Year (So Far).
inspirationWhen creating your ideal professional life – or making any change – retaining your energy is crucial to keep going. One of the best ways to boost your energy is through acknowledging what you’ve already accomplished. I’ve written about this before but worth repeating. When you acknowledge what you’ve already accomplished you will build your confidence. When you build your confidence you will take action and accomplish even more. See the brilliant loop here? 🙂
List 50 results you are proud of having accomplished so far this year (to make this really powerful I suggest you write it down).
First 10, or even 20, results are easy. But then it gets harder. Perfectly natural, hang in there! Don’t forget about the super small – but still so important – things: Have you started to take different ways home to boost your creativity? Have you bought a nice copybook to journal your ideas? Don’t forget about the inside: Have you changed your view on something? Have you discovered a new talent? Or decided on an existing talent that you want to expand? Have you got a new insight on what’s important in your professional life? A new idea you will explore?
Still hard to come up with results? Go out and create some new!
Here’s my list, hope it will serve as inspiration. So far this year I’m very proud of that I have:
When I read my list I feel both proud of myself and SO grateful for all amazing people giving me the opportunity to do what I love. I really recommend you give it a try!
What are you proud of that you’ve accomplished so far this year? Can you list 50 results? I know you can.
Reinvent, Become, Allow.
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupHow do you make sure your professional life keeps inspiring you? Read an interview with Marc Jacobs the other day and think he pretty much sums it up when he says: “Reinvent yourself, become who you want to be and allow your dreams to come true.” (my translation)
Key words here: Reinvent, Become, Allow. Creating your ideal professional life is an ongoing adventure and you decide where it will take you from here.
Agree?
Own Your Uniqueness.
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupIt’s said magic happens outside your comfort zone. I say magic happens when you look beyond your own limitations. I think we far too often let our own, and others’, limiting beliefs stop us from doing what we want in our professional lives.
But I also know that it is possible to look beyond those limitations. By exploring your unique combination of talents, your non-negotiable values and how your ideal professional life will look you learn to own your uniqueness. And as Goethe said “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
Start believing in your ability. Start owning your uniqueness. Why let your own or anyone else’s limitations stop you from creating magic?
If You Have Ideas Why It’s Impossible, You Also Have Ideas How To Make It Possible.
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupSometimes when I speak to people about creating their ideal professional lives they look at me and say ”Well, that’s possible for you. But for me…” and then a whole bunch of reasons why it’s impossible for them. Some of these reasons are really creative and I mean, if you can come up with that creative ideas why it’s impossible I’m totally sure you can also come up with ideas how to make it possible. I’m convinced you can create the professional life you want. Yes, you have to make an effort. Yes, you have to challenge your comfort zone and look beyond your limitations. But you’ve got exactly what it takes. It’s time to make all the hours we spend at work count!
Make Your Work Hard To Copy.
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupWe all know that everything that can be digitalized will be digitalized. And what’s digital can easily be copied. Therefore, to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s professional life you need to grow your uniqueness. It’s not about the facts you know, anyone with some Googling skills can find out anything nowadays. It’s about the qualities and strengths that makes you unique. What’s your unique combination of talents? How will you use them to create you ideal professional life? The more YOU you become, the harder it will be for anyone to copy your work.
Why A Plan B Might Be A Curse.
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupWhen we’re about to make a change in our professional lives and free our inner entrepreneur it’s easy to start looking for both belt and braces. We would very much like a plan B just in case. But sometimes that plan B might actually be a curse. Because you spend a whole lot of time crafting your plan B instead of investing your time and effort into making plan A work.
Commit to plan A, invest your time and energy in making plan A come true. Plan B might just as well wait in your drawer.
Flip 7: Follow >> Lead
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupThis week I thought I’ll share my 7 mindset flips to enter a mindset of possibilities and access your full potential. If you want to dig deeper into the content, check out my free ebook!
Ready for the last and final flip? 🙂
Flip 7: Follow >> Lead
To create your professional future you’ll have to put yourself in the front seat, grab the steering-wheel and decide where you want to go. Enough following. Time to take the lead.
As a leader creating your ideal professional life you have to communicate what you want. Because you know what? If you don’t tell anyone, no one will know. Sounds obvious but this is actually where many of us fail. It’s not enough to think or even write down what you want to do. Until we invent mind-reading, you must tell the world. Scary the first time but gets easier and easier.
There’s power in the words ”I WANT…”. When you say them out loud you will automatically start moving in that direction. When you tell the world ”I want…”, opportunities you could never ever dream of will show up.
Repeat after me: I want…
Flip 6: Experience >> Potential
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupThis week I thought I’ll share my 7 mindset flips to enter a mindset of possibilities and access your full potential. If you want to dig deeper into the content, check out my free ebook!
Time for some more flippin’!
Flip 6: Experience >> Potential
The future is the future, not the past. So why are we so obsessed with our past when marketing ourselves or our businesses? Think about it, what do you promote when applying for a new job or approaching a prospective client? For most, the answer is the past. We send in our resumes, we talk about successful cases from the past. And all this despite the fact that research shows that potential outshines experience when deciding whom to hire.
I’m not suggesting your experience is unimportant. I’m just saying it’s not THE thing. And most of all I like to stress this:
Don’t let your past experiences dictate your future.
Because the future is about the future, not the past.
Flip 5: Excuses >> Results
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupThis week I thought I’ll share my 7 mindset flips to enter a mindset of possibilities and access your full potential. If you want to dig deeper into the content, check out my free ebook!
Time for some more flippin’!
Flip 5: Excuses >> Results
This flip might be a little uncomfortable at first. But to create your ideal professional life it’s a necessity. The truth is that either you have excuses or you have results. And you want results, right? That means you’ll have to pick up the baton and run. It’s your professional life and you are the one that will make it happen.
No time, no money, not the right competence, not the right network… We’re very creative when it comes to finding out excuses for not taking action. To create your ideal professional life, you need to be aware of your most common excuses. Once you know it’s an excuse, you can make a choice whether you want that excuse or if you rather want the result.
As a former engineer, I have to say something about Newton here 🙂 Newton’s laws of motion states that an object in motion stays in motion. Means the tricky part is to get started. Once you’re moving it gets much easier. To get past you excuses: start with a step almost ridiculously small – and take action.
To quote a famous sports brand: Just Do It.
Flip 4: Perfection >> Progress
entrepreneur, inspiration, next big thing, startupThis week I thought I’ll share my 7 mindset flips to enter a mindset of possibilities and access your full potential. If you want to dig deeper into the content, check out my free ebook!
Ready for some more flippin’?
Flip 4: Perfection >> Progress
Ever faced perfection paralysis? You know when you’re so overwhelmed by the idea of perfection you end up doing nothing. I certainly have. Today, everything changes so fast there’s no time for extensive planning and strategizing. If you wait until you know everything you’ll want forever. We all act in information-poor, resource-constrained and time-compressed surroundings. No one “knows it all”. In all honesty, could it even be you sometimes use planning and strategizing as an excuse for not taking action? (more about that in this LinkedIn post I wrote some time ago)
There is no such thing as a right time, right place or right conditions. Stop being paralyzed by perfection. Commit to constant progress.