Start The Year With A Beginners Mind

bronze buddha statueHow is your first week of 2015 going? Are your plans for world domination coming together?

Since your goals are still fresh and you’re fired up, I want to share a concept that can make a big difference. So often we are excited to make changes, yet we bring all of our old stuff with us.
  • Old thoughts about how we need to do things
  • Old thoughts about what works and what doesn’t
  • Old thoughts about what it takes to achieve our goal

Einstein said it best:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

No wonder each year can feel like a scratched record, playing the same thing over and over.

Make 2015 the year of the Beginners Mind.

It’s a Buddhist concept that means: having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and a lack of preconceptions. So often what holds us back from achieving our goals is the mindset and pre conceived notions that we bring to our actions.

I can tell you some of the best results I’ve had in my business were from things I thought were a bad idea or wouldn’t work. But I had a coach pushing me to get out of my comfort zone or do things just a little bit differently.

So let this be the year you show up different and get different results.

  • Try something new
  • Shift your mindset about whether it will work or not
  • Be open to opportunities you might have missed before

New actions get new results and they might just be amazing.

To Your Success!
Nicole

If you have been thinking about the mentorship program, the first session is full. I just opened another group and already have a couple of people signed up for it. So, if you have been thinking about it, now is the time. Here is the link for the new dates and to sign up.

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