Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 5: Surround Yourself with the right people!

Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 5: Surround Yourself with the right people!

5.  Surround yourself with other thrivers. It is said that you are the average of the five people you most hang out with. Do you hang out with survivors? Or, do you hang out with thrivers? Find people who have a thrival mindset and start hanging out with them. And, if you do not know any, get some audio recordings to listen to and be inspired! I am often amazed how we hang around “party poopers”., and “negative nellies”. At some point it is time to say, for your own thrival, “enough”! Highly successful people have habits that create success, and that means hanging out with others that emulate the energy you want to be a part of.

Warrior-Preneurs also understand that reality and attitude are two different things!

Having a thrival mindset in your life is possible. You can be a thriver in your life if you choose to. Having more than you ever desired is what thrival is all about. It requires, however, self-discipline to change your survival mentality, which was probably developed through years of learning and training. Survival might even be an ingrained habit. The five tips given above will help you embark on the journey of thrival, and let you achieve more than you can ever dream!

Question: What do you do to thrive in your daily life?

Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”

Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 5: Surround Yourself with the right people!

Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 4: Seize Opportunity

4.  Seize opportunity. Opportunity will present itself  in strange and wonderful ways. Sometimes it’s a call or emails you were not expecting. Other times it’s an offer to attend an event or meet someone for drinks. Are you quick to blow that off? Or are you able to see opportunity? Sometimes the POTENTIAL for opportunity is there, and we are quick to say no or turn it down. To have thrival you must understand that opportunities often present themselves only ONE TIME. And taking advantage of them when they do is critical to thrive. This means you must be willing to make decisions, and sometimes those decisions need to be made quickly. I think all of us have had the hindsight were we wish we had taken advantage of something and did not! It’s worth reminding yourself of those so you do not lose out next time!

Be willing to evaluate opportunities after the fact. Warrior-Preneurs are always strategic, which means don’t just do – think about why, how, and what needs to be done as a result.

What opportunities do you need to take advantage of? Share an opportunity with us!

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Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”

Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 5: Surround Yourself with the right people!

Building a Thrival Mindset: Tip 3: Do more than “just get by”.

3. Remind yourself that you deserve more than just “getting by.” Have you ever noticed that when we are asked: “How was your day”, the expected, or most common answer is “fine.” FINE is not a good word! False Intentions that Never Excite? Why would you want any moment of your life to be fine? Get out of the mindset of “I’m getting by” as it will destroy thrival in your life. It’s like kryptonite to Superman. Stop yourself when such thoughts arise in you. When someone asks you how your day was, do not say: “I survived.” Or “It was fine.”  Make sure you think about the greatness of your day. How did you contribute to solutions? Who did you offer help? Where did you stretch and grow?

A Warrior-preneur also listens for and cares about a real answer when they ask the question! So, How was your day?

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Ann Evanston, MA, has been named by About.com as one of the Top Six Marketing Consultants, Feb 2011, and recognized in the Huffington Post for her unique approach in using Facebook to increase profits though giving. In October 2008 Ann created the Social Networking Coaching Club, a forum where you get personalized support to learn how to “discover your REAL edge” and make more online in less time with integrity.
Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 5: Surround Yourself with the right people!

Developing your Thrival Mindset: Tip 2 for Success

Warrior-Preneurs are dedicated to making sure what they do and how they think creates thrival all around them. Yesterday we shared the first tip of “Celebrating More Often.” Stephen Covey of the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People says that most people spend 99% focus on what went wrong, successful people on what went right. Did you celebrate yesterday?!

2.  Immerse yourself in something that completely energizes you. When you do something that you enjoy, you regularly connect with the feelings of thrival, and you can relate it to your life more often. Notice how you feel in that state. Do you lose a sense of time? Are you more focused and energized? Repeating those feelings in other areas of your life will help dramatically. Especially places where you feel the opposite. Today spend time noticing what energizes you; how it makes you feel. Then try to connect those feelings in other situations.

Learning what energizes others can also be a powerful way to find a Thrival mindset. What energizes you?

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Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”

Building a Thrival Mindset Tip 5: Surround Yourself with the right people!

Don’t Just Survive–Thrive! 5 Ways to a “Thrival” Mindset

I do not believe in survival — I believe in “thrival.” But, I have always been told to survive. Many of us have grown up hearing: “If you can just survive this…” or, “Wow, I knew you would survive.” It is because of this that the survival mindset is deeply ingrained in our thoughts and overcoming it can seem difficult. You can have a thrival mindset and a life filed with “thrival”! As a Warrior-Preneur developing this mindset is critical to your success. Over the next several posts we will cover FIVE FABULOUS WAYS to create it in your life!

1.  Celebrate more often. Believers in thrival understand that life is a celebration. In 2008 we started Champagne Thursdays in our home. Our goal was to celebrate even the smallest of our successes and happiness. When you celebrate your success and happiness, you celebrate thrival. How can you celebrate more often in your life? What did you achieve today, at work, with a co-worker, in your business that needs to be celebrated? How can you be happy with what is happening now? If it’s not Champagne, how can you take a moment to quietly show appreciation for a job well done – to yourself?

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Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”