Monday Mindset for Success – Leap!

Being successful: Learning to Ride

I remember learning how to ride my bike. I was in love with my bike when I got it. Lime green, it had a basket on the front with beautiful flowers and colored tassels that flew off the handle bars. I so wanted to learn how to ride.

Of course like most children I started with training wheels on the bike and I could ride. But it wasn’t the same, I wanted to go faster I wanted my ponytail to fly in the wind! So I knew it was time to take those training wheels off.

Suddenly I couldn’t ride my bike anymore. Every time I got on it I lost balance and fell down. I had skinned elbows and knees and it was a mess. So then I had to have my dad’s help. Which meant waiting for him to get home from work so that he could hold the back of the banana seat and help me stay on the bike because being successful mattered in our house. He would push me I would peddle… it would feel great, and then he let go.

And I’d fall off the bike.

being successfulThis went on for days, seemingly for weeks. I was in tears every day. My dad was frustrated because I was in tears every day. He told me we might have to give it a break. But I did not give up. I was determined to learn to ride that bike.

With all of my frustration I felt a sense of giving up though and one day I thought: “I need to go and give it everything I can and learn how to do this.” I went out there without my dad one afternoon and got on that bike, and fell off that bike. And got back on that bike, and fell off that bike.

And then I got on that bike and I peddled and I rode up the street, and down the street. And up the street, and down the street. And I cried tears of joy. I didn’t want to get off. I was so afraid that if I stopped, the next time I got on I would not be a little ride it again!

It’s funny, because life can be like this. There are so many times when we NEED to push through, and not give up. When we need to keep peddling through tears of sadness or even joy. Right now I am going through times when I could give up…but I am getting on that bike…I will ride to success again. This story reminds me that being successful is hard work.

Do you have a story like this in your life? How does it encourage you in being successful?

Monday Mindset for Success – Leap!

Connected yet still Detached

connectedNeedless to say, I am a bit of a mastermind junkie! I have realized that my true power is in bringing a collective mindset together to create growth and creativity. One of the masterminds I run is actually here at my home. It’s called Women, Wine, and Wisdom. It’s a monthly networking mixer, with a great class of wine! And part of the evening I pose a question in the spirit of mastermind. Each woman answers openly, and honestly, and we all learn together.

My recent mastermind question really showed the power of the spirit of harmony in a collective mindset. The question was: “what has been taxing on you spiritually or emotionally that you need to let go of?” Many of the answers were related to running our businesses as entrepreneurs; several answers were about personal relationships, some about how our lives have changed as we’ve aged, others about our own self-worth and value. The sharing alone was powerful.

Interestingly, before this event was I was working with my COMPEL. Speak. Sell. MasterMind clients. I was teaching Step Four in the system: Brand Sales. We were talking about the importance of being connected yet still detached from the outcome in the sales process.

As Women, Wine and Women unfolded that night, I realized that the same mindset was important and all of the answers I was hearing. So I shared with the group the concept of “connected yet still detached”.

Honestly it was quite mind blowing for all of us how that theme kept coming up as different women shared! We were all learning that there are places where we are overly connected and that is stopping us from getting to the next place that we want to be.

“Connected yet still detached” is that something you might need to do with something that’s taxing on you spiritually or emotionally?

Mental Warrior Mindset for Success Discipline

Mental Warrior Mindset for Success Discipline

Becoming a mental warrior is the battle within isn’t it? Ideas are great! Do you have the discipline to make them real?

Every Monday I will post a video blog about your mental warrior mindset! I’d love for you to leave a comment below and tell me what you think!

How is your mental warrior mindset when it comes to discipline?

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