Never Allow Self-Doubt to Guide Your Mindset

Your mindset is composed of habits that formed in your brain after previous experiences. These habits are constantly being filtered by your attitude or mental state. Never allow a self-stereotype to creep in when building theories about yourself. Having the right growth mindset about what you want to do is often the biggest factor to overcome on your road to success. Now is the time to increase your performance and fix your personal inadequacies. One of Oprah Winfrey's favorite quotes is "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his or her future by merely changing their attitude."

Since your mindset is one thing you have 100% control over, here are some tips on how to change your thinking to handle the challenges you face:

• Identify Your Counter Mindsets - Following someone else's successful approach is the art of taking something that works and getting the inspiration you need.
• Vision a New You - If you haven't already, it is time to stop comparing your life with other people's lives. Subconsciously, there is a natural tendency to compare the lowest points of your life to someone else's highs.
• Don't Waste Time - You have to develop a skill for identifying advice that can really help you develop the right mindset and avoid getting stuck in someone else's mediocrity.
• Believe Change is Possible - Recent advances in neuroscience have shown the brain is far more malleable (brain plasticity) than originally thought and people can accelerate neural growth by the actions that they choose to take.
• Focus on Real Results - Even if you started life with less than, stop complaining and accept that it will make your rise to the top more rewarding.
• Change Your Mindset Today - Hanging out in a doubting social circle of people with fixed-mindsets will act as an echo chamber for discussing bad ideas.
• Follow Your Pace - Set each day's goals as the minimum that you plan accomplish. Then, allow yourself to feel great by overachieving in smaller steps.

Immediately following a decision to change your life around, it is easy to get stuck on "GO". Even though you might not know where to start, it is critical that you don't procrastinate. Remember that your attitude and beliefs are directly linked to things you do on a daily basis and age doesn't matter when it comes to changing your mindset. However, changing the circumstances of your life requires you to examine your life's path and decide if it aligns with your beliefs, not someone else's. While it is impossible to forget the past, your goal is to develop healthy habits for living in the present.