You’ve probably already read a lot of books and articles on the topics of personal development, self-confidence, and how you can change your mental strength.
Every piece of advice you’ve ever read has value. And maybe you’ve found that some words didn’t really reach you before. You moved on and forgot about those pieces of advice.
And then, maybe just today, you meet them again and you notice that they touch your heart and trigger something in you.
The same words as back then – and yet they have such a different impact on you. I wonder why that is? It’s certainly not the words themselves, as they remain unchanged.
It’s because of you that these words now affect you, at some point, you changed your mindset without even realizing it.
Through experiences, you have continued to develop, altering your way of thinking, and that’s why you now encounter different people, things, and events.
You’ve probably heard that you can’t expect different results if you always provide the same input.
So, you must first change your mindset to have different experiences.
To help you develop mental strength and a strong sense of self, I’ve compiled here 11 thinking habits that will truly support you in this journey.
Changing Your Mindset: Setting 11 Great Milestones for Your Strongest Self
01. Cultivate a positive attitude
Before anything can succeed for you, you must believe in it yourself, believing that it’s possible.
A prerequisite for this is becoming aware of what you actually think day in and day out.
Especially about yourself.
We seldom realize that we subconsciously sabotage ourselves because we think we can’t do a specific thing, that others will talk about us, or look at us sideways.
If you catch yourself in such a thought, pause and take the exact opposite of it – that’s changing your mindset in action.
02. Be kind to yourself and treat yourself well
Imagine treating yourself the way you sometimes treat yourself as if you would treat your friend.
How long do you think she would remain your friend?
For others to be kind to you, you must first be kind to yourself.
03. Take problems as an opportunity for a fresh start
It’s true: you might have issues with your partner, lose your job, or get unwell. Anything can happen in your life.
Since we can only perceive and understand a small part of the connections, we don’t know why events occur to us – both the good and the bad.
However, you can learn not to categorize events anymore as “this is good for me” or “this is bad for me.”
Instead, expect that everything has a purpose and is perfectly aligned with you right now. Even if you don’t understand why.
04. Get out of your comfort zone
If you keep doing, thinking, or believing the same things repeatedly, you cannot develop further. To lead the life you want, you must leave your limits behind and dare to try new things.
You get less sleep, sacrifice your time to learn new skills that eneble to make new income.
05. Don’t hold grudges
As long as you live with resentment and hatred in your heart, you harm yourself more than the people your hatred is directed towards.
Therefore, make it your life’s mission not to hold grudges.
This doesn’t mean, “What you did to me is okay.”
Changing your mindset means, “I won’t allow what you did to me to ruin the rest of my life.”
06. Forgiveness is the answer
You are not undoing or forgetting the past.
But through forgiveness you come to status of peacefull – especially with yourself.
And something else happens through forgiveness:
You spend far less time with people who hurt you and have far more time with people who are good for you.
07. Be proud of yourself
Being proud of yourself has nothing to do with boasting.
It means that you are confident in having done something well and deserving of recognition.
It doesn’t mean assuming you’re perfect but rather allowing yourself to have flaws and embracing them.
08. Pay attention to what stresses you
Take it down a notch more often, breathe consciously and deeply.
Allow yourself to simply sit down, have a glass of water, and look out of the window.
If you’re at the office, take a break where you don’t just sit again but walk through the park.
Give yourself breaks and notice when your body is giving you signals of overwhelm.
09. Learn to let go
Surround yourself with people who uplift you and make you laugh. Be willing to give people a second chance.
Celebrate what you’ve done well and learn from what you don’t like. Everything that comes your way is a lesson for you. Only you can interpret its language.
Leave behind everything you can’t control.
10. Learn and grow
Even if you’d deny it, you are now a completely different person than you were a year ago.
And in the next year, you’ll be a completely different person again than you are today.
How much you will have grown then is decided on your journey there:
through your actions, your thoughts, and your feelings.
It’s not enough to just read about how you can personally develop yourself. You grow and develop through what you’ve gained in new insights and concretely implemented in your life.
11. Be thankful
Everything you have is with you because you consciously and sometimes unconsciously attracted it into your life.
It belongs to you and has stayed because it’s part of a big, wonderful puzzle: the puzzle of your life.
Nothing could be more important and valuable.
Accept everything that shows up in your life with gratitude, even when you don’t yet understand why it’s there. Because what you reject sends strong negative signals. Acceptance and gratitude bring more of what you already have.
And just like a lighthouse guides ships with its signal, your signals or vibrations also guide you.
Be kind to yourself and change your mindset for strong thoughts.
How to be thankfull? I have explain in-detail in this article. Read How To Transform Your Money Beliefs To Manifest Financial Success with the Law of Attraction article.
