One of the things I love listening to is podcasts. The other day I was listening to an episode of the podcast: On Purpose with Jay Shetty titled 3 Step System Effective People Use To Start the Year Strong where Jay suggests 3 ways to deliberately reset our mindset to start 2021 off right. Below are snippets of what I took away:
1.Mindset: Gratitude
Kick off 2021 with a new new gratitude practice. Every day for a week each morning when you get up, spend 3 minutes to deeply reflect or dive into one beautiful or meaningful thing someone has done for you in your life. And tell them! Send it to them as a text message, voice mail or video message. Express it! If you set your mindset for gratitude and connection in that way, those will be things you will feel more in 2021 because you will rewire your brain to look out for and emphasize those things when they happen.
2. Mechanical:
Pick 1 person from your personal life, one person from your professional life and one person from your family life and ask them the following questions:
– Tell me a time when you thought I was at my best.
– When was the time when you saw me really perform?
– What was one of my qualities that you wish I could work on and develop?
– What am I doing right?
3. Map:
Pick a mentor – someone who embodies the qualities you are looking to grow this year. You don’t even have to know your mentor. They don’t even have to be alive. Read their work, watch videos of them speaking, read about their lives, inspiring quotes from them, get a picture of them etc. If it’s someone you know, ask them.
What great suggestions these are to start fresh by building out our intentions for the year!
For the last couple of years I’ve been cultivating a regular habit of writing down 3 things I am grateful for and one positive experience I had over the past 24 hours. I have certainly come to appreciate the importance of gratitude as I highlighted in my 2 blogposts below:
– What Do You Do in The 1st 30 Minutes After Waking Up?
– Are You Counting Your Blessings?
However, I like Jay’s suggestion of reflecting on one beautiful or meaningful thing someone has done for you in your life and telling them about it. I have implemented it since the 2nd week of Jan 2021 and I am enjoying it so far.
I am also big on reading books and listening to podcasts which has granted me access to mentors far and wide. Every now and then, I yearn for more traditional physical mentor(s) as well – the ones you can meet with or speak to. However this podcast reminded me it’s ok to have mentors of a different kind, whether dead or alive, near or far.
Lastly, what better way to improve yourself than to work on your strengths! I better reach out to those 3 people. I have picked out 2 so far. It’s time to narrow down on my 3rd one.
I look forward to incorporating these suggestions in my life and seeing what impact they’ll have. Has any of these suggestions resonated with you? Pick one, two or all three and test them out in a bid to reset your mindset for the year ahead.
Until next time,
Happy Investing in Yourself!
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