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MINDSET OF THE ENTREPRENEURDEVELOP A SUCCESS MINDSET

"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."

– Entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus

•Every business owner is looking to grow their business

An Entrepreneur tries to grow their businessusing external methods like marketing or advertising

They might try out new marketing tactics or sales strategies

•We often forget about internal factors

•Internal factors might include:•Beliefs•Attitudes•Opinions•Thinking Habits

WHAT IS ‘MINDSET’• The concept of mindset was first formulated and popularized by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck

• Factors like intelligence & ability do not guarantee success as an Entrepreneur

All of us know someone who is incredibly intelligent or gifted but somehow never realized their potential. Think of a valedictorian who ends up working a dead-end job or a gifted athlete who gives up a sports scholarship in order to stay closer to home. These people seem stunted somehow and it's a great shock that they don't pursue their potential.

Your mindset is a collection of beliefs

•Your Mindset is beliefs about your basic qualities like your

•intelligence, •talents, and •personality.

You may believe that you aren't ‘smart’

•  Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.

According to: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ 

•Isaac Newton was undoubtedly a genius when it came to math, but he had some failings early on. He never did particularly well in school and when put in charge of running the family farm, he failed miserably, so poorly in fact that an uncle took charge and sent him off to Cambridge where he finally blossomed into the scholar we know today.

• http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/

•Others tell you , you aren’t smart or you fail at exams written by others

• Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein did not absorb the negative mindset of others.

•This negative thinking ignores the fact that intelligence means so much more than just school performance, and that many who did poorly in school went on to be great successes in their field.

You may have a negative mindset about your talents

You may think you are not a good public speaker due to an incident in your past . You may think, "I'm not a good public speaker. When I presented my thesis in college, I choked. I couldn't remember words and I was too nervous to perform well. I'm just not a public speaker.“

However, Public Speaking is a talent that can be learned with practice.

YOUR NEGATIVE MINDSET is preventing you from the opportunity to spread your message through public speaking

I was told by everyone that “ I am shy”

I am an introvert which I define as someone who is more sensitive to the environment around me in terms of stimuli I believe I was born that way.

HOWEVER, because I’ve been told I am shy, which is negative, I avoid those situations which cause me stress when my body reacts with red face or stuttering.

Negative mindset can make you avoid situations you need to do in your business!

To get over the negativity of being “Shy”

I go “on camera now” to give my message

And there are other things I should do ….one step at a time

HOWEVER, I don’t call myself the negative “Shy” , I call myself “an INTROVERT” which is the way I was born and I know what I can do to keep a POSITIVE MINDSET that I useto be able to be an INTROVERT in an EXTROVERT world.

•Whether conscious or unconscious, negative mindsets can impact success

•A positive mindset can help activate potential

NEXT

•We will look at your “INNER CRITIC”

•and how to get rid of him or her

•To develop a success mindset, get my e-book “Develop your Success Mindset” at http://jgtips.com/smindset.

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