In business, when you reach your goals and achieve success, it feels really good. Finally, after all of your hard work and dedication to your goal, you’ve arrived. It can often feel as if this success is owed you – after all, weren’t you the one who put in all the hours to gain it?
It’s entirely normal, healthy, and expected to feel a sense of pride when you reach a certain level in your business. You have a lot to be proud of, after all! But a problem arises when, instead of feeling grateful for your success, you expect it instead.
Why Having a Mindset of Gratitude is Important for YOUR business
Many business owners find that without gratitude in their lives, their businesses fail to deliver – in many different ways. Being self-absorbed to the point of believing success is owed to you is a slow poison to your business mindset, and in turn, your business itself.
Success in business – or any area of our lives – is something that must be planned, focused on, worked towards, and above all, earned. And, it must be appreciated, not taken for granted as something that is owed to us.
So How Do I Create An Attitude Of Gratitude?
One of the best ways to create an attitude of gratitude is to share what has helped create your success with other business-owners – maybe those who haven’t yet reached your level of success. You can do this in many ways – business consulting at no charge, business mentoring – and your local Small Business Administration will be able to help you in finding up-and-coming business owners that truly need a helping hand up.
Your business knowledge, wisdom, experience, and advice are worth sharing to help others achieve their own goals and dreams in business. In this way, you help “pay it forward,” in essence taking action on your feelings of gratitude and thankfulness for where you are today.
Another way to express gratitude is to actively reach out to your business mentors and thank them for sharing their knowledge and experience with you. Your mentors have helped you get to your level of success and letting them know that they are appreciated goes a long way towards creating that gratitude mindset that you need in business.
The success of your business may not rise or fall depending on your level of gratitude, but having a mindset that is full of gratitude will definitely help your business, and will also help your overall life!
Attitude of Gratitude + A Growth Mindset
Having an attitude of gratitude is all tied into also having a growth mindset.
The way you think about your ability has a very real impact on the results you achieve in life. Interestingly enough, both fixed and growth mindsets are highly self- reinforcing, but in vastly different ways.
Mindset in Practice
Individuals with these two mindsets not only think differently but also react to information in a different manner. In fact, the differences can be stark when they respond to information about performance.
The Basics of Fixed vs Growth Mindset
People with a fixed mindset accept their traits as givens. They believe there is a certain amount of intelligence and talent and there is nothing that can change this fact. So people with this mindset are often concerned about their traits and how adequate they are.
The growth mindset, on the other hand often exhibits resilience and perseverance in the face of errors. Instead of adopting a defensive approach, they become motivated to better their performance.
If you ask me, having a growth mindset and an attitude of gratitude will get you MUCH further than believing you have no control over your growth and abilities.
To help you get started, I’ve included my FREE list of 25 ways your can adopt a growth mindset. Making small and intentional changes each day can help you transform how you think and help you take whatever you’re doing to the next level.
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