Success in Managing Change Depends on Your Effort

Do you feel others possess some innate gift that allowed them to be successful? If so, you may be relying on a fixed mindset and fostering an apathetic attitude toward hard work and effort. Learning more about fixed and growth mindsets will help you change destructive behaviors that could be keeping you from attaining your personal goals. An ugly side effect of relying on a fixed mindset is a sense of helplessness toward how effort matters, especially when it comes to leading a happier and more fulfilled life. Author Stephanie Seabrook Hedgepath explained, "Life is about being and becoming, not having and getting."

By changing your mindsets, you are able to make sustainable changes in your life that will make a real difference. Check out the tips provided below:

• Believe in Yourself - Feeling stuck can invoke anger, apathy and other negative emotional responses when you fail to meet your goals. Accept the fact that your mindset was wrong and never create excuses.
• Flip the Switch Today - Wake up with your goals in mind every day. That's not to say you should wake up worried. Instead, make a commitment to remain happy. You owe it to yourself.
• Believe Change is Possible - You have to believe that what stands between you and what you want can be changed. A growth mindset empowers you to transform things in your life that prevent true happiness.
• Focus on Your Why - Never fear another person's criticism. Your harshest critic may actually provide you with valuable insights to help you become better at what you want to accomplish in life.
• Change Your Results Now - See challenging situations as opportunities, but start small. Each day you should see yourself as an overachiever with no regrets.
• Focus on Your Pace Only - Accept the fact that change is natural and necessary part of your life and will happen with or without you, so make sure you don't get in your own way.
• Invest in a Better You - To get your mind ready to approach your life differently, start by changing your mindsets for the better. This will position you for future success, as well.

If you decided to change your way of thinking, it's time to make your self-talk work for you instead of against you. Negative self-talk will not work. A common problem with many people is their belief that money or fame would make the rest of their life perfect, which is a harmful misconception as well as a tell-tale sign of a fixed mindset. If there is a habit that you previously tried to establish but somehow let it slip away, renewing that challenge and seeing it through will provide a greater sense of self-efficacy. Just pick the most logical starting point and make change happen in your life.