Re-start from your mindset

I often interact with people who desire to restart their lives, chase their dreams, pursue their vision, and achieve higher spiritual, physical and financial heights. They have been stuck for so long that they have unconsciously developed a mindset that perpetuates itself like a vicious circle.

Sometimes, these people understand their situation and may have attempted to get out of the same, but all external efforts have proved abortive either because they were the wrong efforts, or they were not sufficient to drive a change.

There is also the case of impatience when a carrier of such a mindset expects a sedimented mindset to change in one day. At other times, these people do not understand the problem, so their attempt to escape yields no results.

The fact is, no matter the changes you make on the external, if you retain a wrong mindset, you will hardly take five steps before you are drawn back to your old self. What follows will be a loss of confidence in yourself and a loss of faith in your ability to get out of the quagmire.

I must admit, however, that mindset change can be long, tortuous and many times wavelike, with its crests and troughs. But it is also true that once you have achieved a new mindset, you will realise how much time you wasted in your old mindset and how many opportunities for growth and advancement lie before your eyes.

To help you with this change of mindset, I would recommend the following:

1. Reading

Read books and articles that challenge how you currently think about and view yourself. Only a few things are as powerful as what we say to ourselves. When you say the wrong things to yourself, they fuel your mindset. So, read things that give you new perspectives that you have been hesitant to explore. Let other voices speak to you to the point where they become your voice.

2. Hold transformative conversations

Entertain conversations that challenge your perspective about life and times. We are social beings. Excluding yourself from others only perpetuates your mindset, but opening yourself up to other views refines your mindset. One good thing is that you desire a change, so it is easy to influence your thought pattern.

3. Change environment

Visit places you know would improve you, even where you are too scared or too shy to visit. As beautiful as your room is, it preaches a certain message to you all the time consciously or unconsciously. Changing your mindset would require visiting other rooms that preach other types of messages that challenge the message of your room. Those messages can shock you to the point where you make great life-transforming decisions instantly.

4. Attack your fears

Confront your fears headlong before they become monsters. Fears are like droplets that eventually form a flood. So, handle your old fears and do not allow your heart soil to absorb new droplets. Do this one at a time, and do not hesitate.

5. Renewal of Mind

Renew your mind with God’s Word, the Bible. There is an innate power in the Holy Scriptures that transforms whosoever is given to reading and meditating on its speaking. I have found this to be true, and I highly recommend it. Daily and consistently read verses of the Bible and meditate on the same.

6. Focus on the new

Don’t struggle with the old mindset as it will usually win in the beginning. Your focus should be on the new thing you are building. When the new mindset is strong enough, dislodging the old would occur without notification to you. You will simply see that your thought pattern and actions have changed; yes, it is that subtle yet tangible.