Regular readers of this blog will understand that how you approach your business on a psychological level can make a huge difference in how successful it is likely to be, as well as how much you will enjoy running it.
Unfortunately, there are a few common and outdated ways of thinking that are both very likely to make things more challenging for any entrepreneur.
It is beneficial to identify these harmful thinking habits and to upgrade them in some way or another to create healthier internal dialogues, in effect creating more peace and abundance in your life and business.
Here are a few examples of the kinds of changes in thinking you might want to aim for and adopt to achieve this.
No. 1
Cultivate More Positivity
It can be all too easy to get overwhelmed by our thinking that there is a limit to what we feel we can accomplish. However, the truth is that if you would like to cultivate a better mindset, one of the elements that you will want to consider is to aim for creating more positivity in your thinking.
This is not something that you should force, but rather intentionally develop gently over time. It is quite essential and will prove to be very useful when it comes to growing your business, so ensure that you are developing this skill daily if you want your business to consistently succeed.
Our thoughts become tangible, so when we focus on positive outcomes and higher-frequency emotions, we are creating more of those very things in our life. The more intentional you become with your thoughts, the better you will get at creating more of the things you want to see manifest and come to reality in your life and business versus the ones you want to avoid.
No. 2
Avoiding All-Or-Nothing Thinking
Another very common way of thinking falls in classifying goals in terms of all-or-nothing results. For example, this is likely when you think that you must achieve a certain ideal number of sales results in any given timeframe, otherwise, you are feeling unaccomplished or that your business is going nowhere.
In this thought process, all you are accomplishing is putting a huge amount of pressure on yourself and setting yourself up for immediate failure in your mind. Over time this will have a profoundly damaging effect on you and your business itself simply because you are focused more on an exact outcome in determining your self-worth.
Instead of focusing on the how, you are focused on the when, and this creates stress and uncertainty that you will try to rectify regardless of how much productive effort you put out. You will feel burnt out and miss the opportunity to enjoy the process.
If you would like to learn more about this debilitating thought process, Joshua Shuman Psychologist understands this concept and can help you uproot some of these ideas if you do find yourself thinking in this way.
No. 3
Focus On Providing Value
Instead of focusing all of your energy on profit and loss, instead, try switching that around and focusing more on providing value to customers. This, in many ways, takes the pressure off of you to reach the numbers, and you will find that ironically, it will naturally lead to more profit simply as an effect of your providing value.
In fact, you will find that the profit and loss obsession is quite an outdated way of thinking which does not really serve your greater need to fulfill your purpose. We are learning that there are universal laws that govern our lives, and by being in tune with them, you can see the results flow rather than coming at the expense of something else.
By tuning into more of how you can provide unquestionable value to others that will in turn bless you and further drive you, you will naturally become more in alignment within a healthier heart space of giving. You will nurture that need and desire of wanting to give something to others, and you will naturally be rewarded for it—not having to force results that do not align with your output.
No. 4
Experimentation Above All
Finally, consider what it could be like if you approach your business–and each day working within it–in a mode of experimentation to discover and learn new things. This is the kind of approach that you might want to think about, something that can help you to really unlock the greater potential of your business, while also providing an enjoyable way to run it with less pressure and more grace.
After all, the process of running a business is all about learning, growing, and being open to all of the ups and downs that come with that process. If you detach yourself from the need to be perfect and to have everything all figured out, you can achieve a greater amount of freedom. In this newfound space, the answers will come to you naturally and without force.
By opening yourself up to the unlimited possibilities that exist and leaving the need to control everything behind, you will find that so much more opportunity opens up to you. It is in this place of the unknown where all new things are created and birthed.
This is something you might want to consider trying out at the very least, as it can help you get in tune with an abundant source that is unlimited and not bound by our often limited human constraints and understanding.
Takeaways
As we as a society learn more and more about the power of mindset and perspective, there is a greater urge to apply these concepts to begin to see the changes that take place in our lives for the greater good.
The old way of thinking in terms of capitalist and corporatist limitations will no longer work in the coming, more evolved world where we are in tune with our innate abilities, which make all things possible.
We no longer need to exist in a state of stress or illusion, and by simply changing our thinking, we can begin to walk in our purpose more authentically and aligned with our greater selves and natural gifts.
