Mindset, our most powerful tool we have
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about mindset — the power of it, how we harness it, how it allows us to trust ourselves and inadvertently how others trust us too when we have that ‘energy’ and ‘confidence’ about ourselves.
(There truly is a certain ‘energy’ or ‘confidence’ of someone who you can tell is operating with/from the right mindset)
I feel like I could write a novel about mindset even though I’m relatively ‘newer’ to the mindset curriculum. If you had of asked me 3 years ago what mindset was, I wouldn’t have had a clue.
But one simple social media post from a friend at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, at a time where I oh so needed the mindset reverberation, helped me discover Peak Performance Coach, Coach Hina — and simply put, her work has changed my life.
I may be thinking a lot this week about mindset, because I finally had the chance to attend an in-person event in Toronto where Coach Hina’s community got to meet and hear her speak. My first time feeling her energy raw, in-person since getting to know her 2.5 years ago.
Her talk left me feeling on top of the world — like I could accomplish anything I set my mind too.. because there, those are the powerful words where everything lies… “anything I set my mind too.”
It’s all up to me.
How liberating yet scary as hell at the same time. Our mindset either unleashes the best in us, or holds us back from what we’re truly capable of. How powerful?!
Again, I could write a novel. And I truly only wish that every person had the opportunity to pursue mindset training. Because I really do believe our workplace and society as a whole, would be better off for it. It’s why I think so many of our organizations would greatly benefit from mindset training with their executive teams, leaders, Boards of Directors, and staff.
I’d love to see our Canadian food + agriculture sector embody mindset training, because as I’ve talked about before in webinars and presentations, our greatest challenge ahead in our sector is our very own mindset of how we see ourselves and the relationship that mindset allows us to have with Canadian consumers.
I obviously took notes from listening to Hina on Tuesday, and I thought I’d share some of the gems from her talk. These may just land for you at the right time when you need to hear them too, personally or professionally:
What if we tried to do things with ease? We’re addicted to chaos, comfortable with the drama, we feel ‘needed’ and alive in it. Why do we feel we have to hustle? To kill ourselves trying to prove/achieve success, like we have to work ourselves to the bone to achieve what we want, yet what if we could have it all and more.. and let it be easy doing so?
If something wasn’t available to you, you wouldn’t be able to think it, it wouldn’t have come to you and landed with you — the idea/thought was looking for ‘fertile mental soil.’ There’s a reason it landed with you. Act from this place.
How comfortable are we when someone gives us something? When we’re asked to receive? The greatest gift we can give our children is our happiness and well-being. We must get comfortable with receiving.. and receiving the good. Catching your own thoughts and asking yourself, ‘would I be saying this to my partner or my best friend?’ is the best way to begin.
If you know you need to do something big, receive something in some big way, do you have the mental bandwidth to take on what you know you need to do, even if it’s going to be messy?
We can be grateful… and want more. We’re allowed to have that.
Just over here planting, watering and growing the seeds I’ve mentally planted in my ‘fertile mental soil’ as Coach Hina says. This farm girl can’t resist any time she uses a farming analogy or refers to something growing from soil 😉
… and so the work continues 🧠
