Developing Growth Mindset Habits for You and Your Business

When deciding what new habit to pursue, it’s easy to look at all the things we shouldn’t do as a place to begin. We want to stop smoking or stress eating. We want to learn how to say ‘no’ or to quit spending so much time on social media.

Have you ever considered the flipside of all that by building a habit that’s positive? What if the habit you formed was one of growth, that leads to personal and professional development?

Having a growth mindset positively impacts your life in multiple ways, so it’s a great healthy habit to build into your life. What are the benefits of developing a growth mindset?

1. You keep learning. Learning is important as you not only discover new ways to do things, but by making a practice of constantly learning, you develop new ways of thinking, and new ideas. Learning connects you with more of the world and helps you see things with a deeper significance than you ever thought possible. If you own a business, learning helps you to be more of a resource to your customers, add new offers, teach new classes, earn more income.  But more than that, people who stop learning very quickly stagnate. Studies have shown that the practice of learning new things when you are older helps ward off problems related to dementia. In short, learning is good for your brain!

2. You learn perseverance. As we learn new things, we adapt and change how we think. That gives us the ability to see other solutions to problems that would have frustrated us in the past. This is definitely a benefit for you personally, but look at the many ways it can help you to help your clients.  By challenging yourself to grow, you learn how to push through obstacles and find new paths.  Again, a personal bonus, but potentially a bonus for your clients as well.

3. You learn how to embrace challenges. Growth can be challenging. But by pushing yourself to grow, that means you’re also pushing yourself to look at challenges differently. An obstacle now becomes an opportunity to learn something new and to do things in a way you haven’t before. Embraces those challenges could ultimately help you to become more efficient in the way you do things in your personal and professional life. 

4. You learn how to embrace failure. When you’re interested in growing, not only  as an individual, but a business owner; you start to see failure differently. Everything becomes a potential lesson in a way that you didn’t think would work.

5. You become more open to criticism. By being willing to grow, you start to see that the input of other people has significance. You see their words not so much as something negative, but something you can use to develop as a person, a business owner and learn something about yourself, or perhaps a better way to help your customers. You might not always like the lesson, but that’s part of growing too.

By embracing personal and professional growth, you find the best version of yourself. You’re able to become more than you ever thought possible, and then you turn that around by finding out that you can become more still. You’ll find that the furthest edges of yourself are far beyond what you thought you ever could be.