What is "mindset" and how do you change yours? 🧵
A person's mindset is made up of their unique set of viewpoints, beliefs & filters that they have developed since childhood. Think of it like prescription glasses that you view the world through. (1/8)
@nate_postlethwt Toxic workplaces have built systems to try and ensure employees gaslight themselves into not speaking out. Healing from this takes extra reminders that we deserve better.
@DrDoyleSays Legal jargon is notorious for this. Everything from workplace harassment to testifying in court, victims are told to use the words "in my experience" otherwise risk more negative potential consequences. The entire system retraumatizes victims.
I prefer reading a book, but I became a fan of audiobooks at a previous job when I was doing manual labour and it was a great way to pass the time while working.
A close friend of mine has developed vision issues due to her desk job & has found audiobooks a great way to keep reading without irritating her eyes.
Responsibility is power.
When you decide someone else is responsible for your life—be it a person, a job, a government—you give them power over you.
When you decide you are responsible for your life, you empower yourself.
“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.” ― John Dewey
A failure to reflect will eventually manifest as a failure to grow.
Experience + Reflection = Growth
Life Hack: Embrace the embarrassment of being a beginner.
The only way to accomplish something meaningful is to endure days, weeks, months, or even years of embarrassing failure.
Every expert started out as a beginner.
Those who embrace the embarrassment will eventually win.
Self care looks like no longer expecting ourselves to be perfect, because the perfect person doesn't exist.
When we allow ourselves to simply just be, without judgement, without shame, that is when healing happens & we step into our power.
I have always wanted to travel the world, but you know what stopped me until I was almost 30?
My mindset.
I told myself I was too poor, I had no time, I could never save up enough, I was too busy, I had school, etc.
I had a LOT of excuses.
What changed?
When we begin to view our lives as chapters that we write, we become empowered to shift our narrative.
It is far more exciting to consider all of the changes *we* can make, than to feel stuck in our lives as observers.