We all have a filter in which we color the events of the world as they unfold. Do you know what color your filter is? In a previous post I waxed about the distinction of the eagle and the chicken. Today I will add another character: Eeyore the donkey.
Events will always be unfolding and how we color that event will continue to enhance the theme we have for our business and or life. With my clients I enforce a principle: “You are the sun and whatever you shall shine upon shall grow.”
An Eagle mindset will use the filter that the world is unfolding exactly as it should and whatever unfolds will serve me. For example a client leaves: the Eagle will interpret this event as a good thing that will create the space for profitable clients to appear.
A chicken mindset uses the filter of fear that what is unfolding is scary and we must always exercise caution and fear because the hawk is always circling. For example a client leaves: the Chicken will interpret this as the beginning of a mass exodus and panic with a massive explosion of desperate sales activity.
An Eeyore mindset is everything that unfolds as a continuation of his sentence: “this always happens to me” For example a client leaves: Eeyore will see this as proof that he is not very good at what he does and question why he is in the business in the first place and go into a depression.
Now the funny thing about mindset is that it’s made up but does it serve you? Think about it if you believe that everything that unfolds serves you it will! If you believe that things unfold to suppress you,the suppression will continue! Mindset is made up ultimately by you and no your mother did not permanently scar you by making you wear your sweater.
How do you change Mindset? Attention. Ask yourself what are you making the event unfolding mean? And does that meaning serve you? Are you thinking like an eagle? A chicken? Or Eeyore?
The choice is always yours.
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