🍀 CREATING A WINNING MINDSET - Issue 190
Hi, I am JOE and I write on "Mindful Productivity & Cerebral Happiness". My endeavour is to share life lessons, some thoughts, quotes & links to articles/podcasts/books, I discover during the week.
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Hello Friends, I particularly like the month of ‘March’ as it sets pace for the change of seasons in my part of the world and also act as a reference month to define the trajectory of the year ahead. Incidentally in this very month, I have won a prestigious Golf Event of 2024 which is played in a match-play format. This winning happened to be my 4th ( one time as Runner- Up) in my previous 5 attempts and gave myself, 80 % of winning probability. Just to give you a little perspective, match-play fomat is most dynamic and has a potential to give inconceivable outcomes and upsets.
I have been asked by my friends in the community - ‘ Joe, How do you make it happen ?? ‘. And during the week, this is the precise questions, I was thinking deeply to put my thoughts in a structured way.
Let me start by revealing my true belief - ‘A winning mentality is born out of intense personal motivation. You can relate this to just about anything on the human scale – from sheer survival to sporting success, personal happiness to professional peaks, and almost anything in between. Golf is akin to life where you are all alone in your battle of excellence and achievements.
For me ‘developing a winning mindset’ is like being a great baker: it's part science, part self-confidence and part ingenuity and this is how it works 👇⬇️ :-
The science is in the plans you make, the confidence is in the belief in yourself, visualizations and your perspective, and the ingenuity is in finding ways to get things done.
I often find myself in agreement with author Geoff Colvin’s quote from his famous work ‘Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else’, wherein he says - “The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome”.
I take my journey(s) as destination(s). You never arrive in real sense. You work hard to succeed, and then you work twice as hard to maintain your success. It’s a slow grind, and it starts with your winning mindset.
A winning mindset is like building any successful business. It can not be done overnight, you have to build it over time with consistent work ethics and honest feedback looping. Here’s how to do it:
Build your Grit :- Start working on your grit would be the first step. Unlike other things grit is not talent or luck, rather it is a combination of passion and perseverance for high level of achievement. Grit help you to develop an ability to rebound from adversity and maintain focus which eventually act as a greatest contributor in your success. Interestingly enough, unlike IQ and other innate gifts, you can actually measure your grit and then improve it.
Generate momentum with small steps :- Give credit to your small wins, as you go along and fuel your momentum. Momentum building provide a positive framework to the mind for realisation of your immediate goal. I prefer to live by this motto: First build your momentum like a wave and then ride on it.
Trust your process :- Everybody has to find their own stroke but the commonality that underlies all winning mentalities is the optimism that there is gold at the end of the rainbow. You have to stay with it and truly believe in the prize and reinforcing that belief all along the way.
Take action :- Ultimately, you can't think your way to a goal unless you take actual steps in doing so. Many people spend so much time analyzing their strategy and so little in actually doing it. In this process, they become stagnant and risk-adverse. As a result, you miss out on opportunities to fail and learn from your mistakes as much as you do from your successes.
Take good care & enjoy reading this week's dose of ‘Mindful Productivity & Cerebral Happiness’.
Joe
❤️ 🧠 Few things in which I stayed invested during the week🧤🧤
ARTICLE/BLOG POST - It’s important to Develop Life Skills early on which can help you set the pace right to find success in any field of your choice.
📚MY ABSORPTION FOR THE MONTH:-⬇️
Talent Code __By Daniel Coyle
The Girl Who Touched the Stars _ By Bonnie Hancock
🧠Book/Work, I’m Currently Reading:-📖⬇️
Thesis on EUROPEAN UNION’S RESPONSE TO THE
UKRAINE CRISIS”_By Lipika Kharb
( It’s the amazing work of a young expert on “ International relations’ and Public Policy ” who could predict the Conflict exactly as it began later. )
Why Bharat Matters_ By Dr S Jaishankar
🧠BOOKS ON MY MIND FOR ABSORPTION:-📖📚⬇️
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions_ By John C Maxwell
The Snakes in Ganga_By Rajiv Malhotra
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Congratulations on your achievement sir 🎉.
Inspiring blog.