What is a Goal Mindset?
Written By: Meshach Ambrose
Mental Health Check: Take a deep breath and Imagine a breezy Sunday, where the sun is shining, the green tree leaves are swinging side to side greeting you with a wave the water glistens with a beautiful glow as it performs an affirming wink of a wave and you're sitting quietly content with satisfaction of understanding your past, where you are in your present and where you are headed in your future. Hold on to this feeling, sit in this feeling. How does it feel? So, you made peace with the three stumbling pieces that most people question about. What happened in your past, Where you are in your present and the vision you have for your future. These are the three battles some of us struggle more than others to come to an understanding of and the feeling of restlessness is not easy. Yes "the past is the past" This idea is true, but sometimes the past lingers in our present because we become really good at practicing how to bring our past into our future. In Research has shown, having a goal mindset "which was found in a recent study, published in the journal Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. " Are you ready to make a change? Here are some steps on how to develop a goal mindset.
How to have a Goal Mindset
1. Accept the Presence of Change
To live a different life, we have to accept the presence of change so that our new mindset becomes permanent and in return our life becomes transformed. We have to practice nurturing rituals that are positive, to be present in life in making promising decisions, and to practice maintaining our environment in a new way that fosters healing
2. Practice Journaling
If you have some thoughts write it down. Journaling is the first step to having a vision of where you would like to go in your career path, in your relationships, in your business and in a big life transition. Keeping a journal also provides a record of you ideas and thoughts. This is helpful when you are not use to using writing or planning as a tool when navigating your future. It can declutter your thoughts, bring light to something new you never thought of before or even provide clarity.
3. Create Your Goals
After you have practiced journaling and have more clarity on what has been on your mind or wrote a vision of what you would like to create for your future, create a list of goals on how to achieve them. This could look like SMART Goals which stand for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time Based.
Specific-
Be Specific. learn exactly what you want to accomplish in you goal,
measure what tasks are you going to perform to reach this goal,
Measurable-
Achieveable-
Consists of the attitude, tools and skills you may need to accomplish this goal,
Relevant-
Are you engaging in activities that relevant to your overall goal,
Set a time frame of when would like to reach this goal.
Time Based-
4. Practice Your Goal Mindset!
Now it is time to practice your goal mindset! Someone once told me practice does not make perfect but practice makes permanent. Your patterns, your rituals, your behaviors, your decisions, your environment, the company you keep, the outcomes, and the way you feel, our pain becomes permanent in our lives. To live a different life, we have to accept the presence of change, practice our new mindset so that it becomes permanent and in return our life becomes transformed.
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