Believe it or not, your well-being is crucial to your overall success. When you take care of yourself inside out, you will be in a much better state to execute your goals.
But your well-being does not only mean physical well-being. It also refers to your mental well-being.
Cultivating a healthy mindset is one of the best things you can do for your business. Being in the right frame of mind is what truly separates those who persevere and succeed from those who give up before they get to the finish line.
If you are wondering what those people do differently, then you’ve come to the right place. Here we go through the 25 habits that the topmost successful people embrace to develop and maintain a healthy mindset in order to succeed in business and life….
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What is a healthy mindset?
The types of attitudes and beliefs that you have about yourself, your circumstances, and your experiences in life shape how you show up in life. Someone with a healthy mindset will generally, view these things in a more positive light, which allows them to be more resilient. Typically, they will:
- They see life in a glass-half-full kind of way.
- They are conscious of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- They have a strong sense of self with concrete self-worth.
- They embrace challenges because they see them as opportunities to learn and grow.
What are the 4 pillars of a healthy mind?
Here are four essential pillars that are needed to help cultivate a healthy mind, according to Dr. Davidson:
Awareness: being aware of what your mind is doing. Here exercises such as journaling, meditation, and gratitude practices can help.
Connection: developing solid relationships with people. Here showing vulnerability and compassion, and investing time in these relationships can help to build the necessary trust and connection.
Purpose: living a life that aligns with your values and allows you to work towards the goals that you’ve set out for yourself with the maximum amount of motivation and momentum.
Insight: it is about the stories you tell yourself…yourself. What can help you develop a better relationship with yourself is by showing yourself compassion.
How do you develop a healthy mindset?
First thing is first – developing a healthy mindset is a process and it is not something you can perfect overnight. So be patient with yourself and don’t feel discouraged.
It will also require a consistent effort to maintain. Understanding the 25 healthy mindset habits will help you along the way.
What are the healthy mindset habits of successful people?
Successful people embrace the following habits that allow them to develop and preserve a healthy mindset that is primed for ultimate success.
Embrace themselves as they are.
There is a certain power that you hold when you can accept yourself as you are. When you have a strong core of self-worth, it almost creates a kind of shield.
Anything or anyone who tries to shake that confidence, your identity, or your worth, will not be able to get through, because you will be able to quickly shake it off and move on.
Surround themselves with positive people.
Whether you like it or not, whether you are aware of it or not, the people you share your time with, do influence you. They can shape your worldviews, they can affect your emotions, determine how you spend your time, and they can influence your ambitiousness.
In a nutshell – they can influence your mindset. There is a certain level of herd mentality, so spending time with positive people will help you see the world in a more positive light. However, negative people will tend to dampen your happy emotions.
The main message – surround yourself with the kind of people you aim to want to be like and you can positively influence each other.
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Journal and brain dump.
We all need to offload sometimes and journaling or a less fancy version, brain dumping can massively help you in that.
Our reflex is often to offload on other people, usually those closest to us. But when we are going through a period where we are under a lot of pressure or stress, it can be useful not to have to rely on other people’s time or capacity to take on our problems.
However, either way, letting those emotions out on paper can be soul-cleansing. It can help you better process the emotions and move past them.
The end result – is a healthier, calmer, and clearer mind.
Practice gratitude.
We often want more out of life – it’s one of the reasons so many of us ambitious women start out businesses.
However, obsessing excessively about what we don’t YET have, why we are not yet where we want to be, or how we have not achieved all that we planned – all of that can get you bummed out. You can easily lose sight of all that you have already achieved and all that you have going for you.
Here daily or even weekly gratitude practice can remind you of how awesome your life already is, even when it can still get even better.
Regularly review their goals.
Regularly reviewing your goals can help you track your progress, stay accountable, and remain motivated. Importantly, revising your goals is a great way to identify the most urgent task and prioritize your time most efficiently. This avoids frustrations over time wasted, disappointment or burnout from taking too much on.
Another reason is that it helps you identify are obstacles early on, so you can come up with strategies to overcome them or even prevent them.
Ultimately, this helps to develop a goal-orientated mindset that will keep you going toward building the life you want.
Create vision boards.
They sometimes have a bad rep, but man can they change your life. If you need any more convincing, know some of the most successful people including the likes of Steve Harvey, Shay Mitchell, Oprah Winfrey, and Ellen Degeneres swear by them.
So, what are they?
Vision boards are a collection of your dreams, aspirations, and goals represented as a collage of images, phrases, or words. It can be digital or physical, but in essence, it is intended as a visual representation of all that you want to achieve in life.
Why do they work so well?
Because it allows you to focus your attention and energy on the things that will help you achieve it.
Limit time on social media.
Social media is fun, and it can be an incredible source of inspiration. But there are two sides to the coin because it can be the thief of time.
It is so easy to consume and consume content – before you know it two hours of your day are gone.
So what do successful people do differently?
They are intentional in how they use social media to make the best use of it without getting sucked into a social media black hole by:
- Limiting their time spent and sticking to it.
- Create a designated time during the day when they do use it.
- Deactivating the account during times of high focus.
- Turn of notifications
- Use apps to track social media use and stay accountable.
- Consciously use it as a work tool rather than a free time filler.
Avoid the comparison trap.
It is very easy to get sidetracked by what other people are doing and start to unnecessarily compare yourself to others. This often leads to feelings of inadequacy and can impact your self-esteem.
However, remember that it is not possible for you to ever have full insight into other people’s lives. What you see is what they are willing to share and often times what we see on the surface is only the tip of the iceberg. Therefore, the comparison is futile.
Successful people focus on how they can improve from the person they were a day ago, rather than focusing on what others are doing. This allows them to stay focused and preserve their mental energy for things that will allow them to improve.
Go for daily walks.
This is a simple one and often overlooked but going for daily walks has so many benefits.
They reduce stress, improve your mood, improve your sleep, increase your focus and provide you with a dose of your daily vitamin d. A vitamin is vital for mood, immune system, and bone health.
Exercise regularly.
Let’s talk about those endorphins, the happy-go-lucky hormone that gets released when you engage in exercise. They produce a feeling of euphoria and pleasure and can reduce feelings of low mood, and anxiety while improving your confidence and self-esteem.
Exercising has not only mental health benefits, but it can also improve your cognitive function. It can help you have much better clarity of mind and improve your focus while allowing you to better deal with stress.
All of this adds up to you being better equipped to work on your goals, getting you further towards your dream business, your dream life.
Meditate daily.
Meditation is a great way to bring back your awareness to the present and help to train your brain to manage your thoughts. It is a great tool to tackle the awareness part of the 4 pillars of a healthy mind.
It has incredible benefits for your mental well-being and can help to improve your focus and concentration, deter stress, improve your emotional well-being and help you better deal with difficulties.
Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington account their success in part to this daily practice.
However, it is not a one-time wonder – you will get the most out of this practice if you engage in it on a regular basis.
Get plenty of sleep.
I am sure every single person has experienced the awful consequences of lack of sleep. You feel meh, groggy, irritable and lacking in motivation and productivity.
Long term, a lack of sleep can have serious consequences for your health and mental health.
It is scary to think that so many people promote waking up earlier and only getting 5 hours of sleep a night as a successful tactic to get more done.
This is so counterproductive and dangerous. You want to show up as your best self in your business, you want to stay motivated and avoid burnout and sleep is an important part of that.
See the positive side of things.
There will be a good day and there will be a bad day, in your business and in your life overall.
Successful people tend to adopt an optimistic and hopeful approach to life and challenging situations. They can look past the negatives and find something positive even in the darkest of days.
As a result, they tend to be more resilient, happier, and more successful in both their business and also in personal life.
Never stop enriching their minds.
Knowledge is infinite and the more you can acquire, the more opportunities and success you can expect.
Successful people never put a limit on what they can learn. They reach out for opportunities to learn new skills, gain new perspectives and more wisdom; they seek opportunities to grow and are open to feedback.
Know their purpose.
Having a sense of purpose is vital because whatever you are working towards, you will be far more engaged, productive, and motivated if there is a strong why behind why you do it.
Working towards a goal with a purpose will give you far more fulfillment, as a result, you’re more likely to see it through.
So, what is your why?
Value progress over perfection.
Striving for perfection in everything will rob you of a whole load of time – and the caveat is, all the extra effort would have added very little additional benefit.
Your sense of perfectionism only exists to protect your ego – it does not necessarily make you any better or successful.
Progress over perfection is all about finding the right balance – not settling for average but not striving for top excellence if it is not time or cost-effective for you to do so.
Use affirmations.
Affirmations are those positive statements that, if you repeat enough, will help to change negative and harmful thoughts and beliefs.
They can literally reprogram your brain!
They work because when you repeat them, subconsciously you begin to internalize them.
Your brain creates new networks, often overriding the old harmful thought patterns.
The negative self-talk eventually eases.
Read self-development books.
Sel-development books are awesome because they can help you grow in a way that will improve all areas of your life. Self-development books help you learn from the experiences of others who have been there and done that.
Often, they tend to cover areas such as time management, productivity, confidence, overcoming limitations, improving communication, finance, and managing stress….
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Have a strong morning routine.
To win the year, you have to win the season.
If you want to win the season, you have to win the month.
In order to win the month, you have to win the week.
Now to win the week, you have to win the day.
And the only way to win the day is to win the morning.
Value their time.
Successful people recognize the value of time, and they ensure to always use it in the most efficient manner.
This includes setting boundaries with people, effectively prioritizing, and being mindful of where your time goes and how you spend it.
Valuing your time means being aware of how much time different activities will cost you and making a choice that aligns with your goals and values.
Reward themselves.
Rewarding yourself for small wins can massively boost your confidence because it serves as a reminder of how far you’ve come.
It is a small act of self-love that can go a long way to helping you empower yourself.