Nurture a Growth Mindset—Oct. 13

October 13, 2024

Sunday SAGe Newsletter Volume 4: Nurture a Growth Mindset

Happy Sunday!

Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive. As background, SAGe is an acronym for Self-Actualized Genius (your best self). To learn more about being a SAGe, you can access my blog article: On Being a Self-Actualized Genius (SAGe).

Nurture a Growth Mindset

An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:

Underpinning a SAGe’s positive mindset is a devotion to growth. In her book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” Carol Dweck introduced the concept of a growth mindset.

A person with a growth mindset steps out of their comfort zone, leans into challenges, and takes calculated risks. They have a zest for self-improvement and seize opportunities that push their boundaries. By doing so, they unlock their vast potential. When setbacks occur, they are resilient and view failure as motivation to learn and grow rather than a reflection of their competence.

To nurture a growth mindset, motivate yourself to get out of your comfort zone and embrace challenges (you’ll figure things out along the way). Seek opportunities to learn (you can learn anything). Act upon feedback (it truly is a gift). Give yourself grace when you struggle, knowing that obstacles are a part of the growth process (everyone has struggled). If you do stuff like that, a growth mindset will become your default position. You’ll approach opportunity (and life) with enthusiasm, and happiness often comes along for the ride.

What It Means

You have unlimited capabilities, no matter what your starting point is. You can learn how to paint. You can learn an advanced technology. You can develop a new skill at your job—heck, you can even be successful at a radically different career. Everything you know now, every skill and talent you possess, was acquired at some point in your life. Often, it was the result of hard work, getting out of your comfort zone, and trial and error. If you struggled, you sought help and persevered.

Take a moment and reflect upon how growth has been a vital ingredient to your life satisfaction.

Your Call to Action

Identify a growth opportunity in your life, whether it’s exercising regularly, eating healthier foods, being a more positive person, learning how to throw pottery, going back to school, or a thousand other things you could pursue that would enhance your personal or professional life. Is anything holding you back? Apply a growth mindset to your opportunity and enthusiastically move forward. Take it step by step. And as you do, be energized by your empowering belief that your potential is unlimited. You are capable of doing practically anything. That is your truth.

Struggle breeds wisdom, and you can use that wisdom to break through with the growth you seek.

Have an outstanding week!