5 Tips To Uplift Your Mindset

Let’s work through a mindset exercise

We’re often hampered by a negative mindset or worrying mindset or an anxious mindset when we're looking to make big changes in our lives– and a negative mindset sabotages the best of your actions

When you’re anxious or feeling misaligned with your purpose, try these five quick strategies to realign and uplift your mindset

First thing - I'd like you to do is to take in some deep breaths

Breathe in for the count of four, breathe out to the count of six - repeat that two more times, breathing in for the count of four and breathing out to the count of six.

One more time, breathe in for the count of four and breathe out to the count of six

When we focus on deep breathing or we make the effort to breathe deeply, we release stress, and we release anxiety

Even if we cut our stress only for those short few moments while we focus on deep breathing – it helps

And if you keep repeating every half an hour, every hour, just those deep breathing exercises, it’ll do wonders to uplift your mindset

The second thing I'd love you to do is to close your eyes and observe your mind chatter - observe the thoughts coming up

There's no action required, nothing to do here, no lists to make - nothing to do

Simply observe the thoughts coming up and give them a space

Often we try to resist our thoughts or to change them, we’re feeling bad about something and we tell ourselves - I've got to think better, got to be more positive

This is not the time

This is the time to simply give awareness and permission to thoughts racing across your mind

And if you’re like me there's going to be a lot of mind chatter - it's a natural way the mind works - chattering and chattering all the time

The third thing I'd like you to do is to observe your fears and ask yourself what is the worst thing that could happen?

Simply enquire

No action required

Sit quietly and ask yourself, observe the anxiety, observe the fears and ask yourself what is the worst thing that could happen?

Often you’ll find the answer is: not much…

The fourth strategy is to allow uncensored ideal career visioning to occur

If there were no limits, if you had a fabulous, magical wand from Hogwarts and you could cast a magical spell, what would your ideal career look like?

I want you to close your eyes and visualize it

What would it look like?

What environment would you be working in?

Would it be in a home office?

Would it be outdoors sometimes?

Would it be on a train, traveling through the country that you love to visit?

Would it be in a work office?

What does the environment look like?

What's on your desk?

Do you have a plant close by, do you have pictures of your family?

Pictures of friends, pictures of good times?

What does the ideal environment look like?

What is the ideal company?

Who would you like to work for?

Who would you like to work with?

What type of people we, or is there a particular mentor that you might want to work with, someone you admire?

What would that look like?

What kind of salary would you be earning?

What does your income look like?

Are you making enough money to be able to take care of all your financial obligations and have plenty to spare so you can travel and you can enjoy some of the other things that are outside of work, pay for the school tuitions of the kids to go on trips to Disneyland, whatever it is?

What kind of work are you doing?

What would really give you joy every day?

What kind of work are you doing?

Work that you would jump out of bed for every day?

Observe what comes up for you

And the fifth strategy - what physical movement could you do right now to alter your state of being or your state of mind?

Physical movement uplifts us

When we are in a state of doubt, worry, fear, anxiety- even if you move only for five minutes, in that five minutes you will alter your state of being and you can alter your state of mind

What physical movement could you do right now?

If you're at home, could you jump up and have a dance for five minutes?

If you're sitting at the desk in an office, could you have a couple of stretches, stretch your arms upwards, stretch your arms sideways, bend forward

If you can, are you able to do a couple of yoga, stretches, maybe a few Pilates poses

Could you take a break and go for a jog, go for a run, go for a walk in nature?

What physical movement could you do right now to alter your state of being?

Those are my five strategies - I do them often - I use them often and they've never failed me

Breathing deeply in for the count of four out for the count of six

Closing my eyes and observing the mind chatter that comes up and simply giving that mind chatter a platform

Observing fears and asking what is the worst that could happen

Allowing uncensored ideal career visioning

And what physical movement could you do right now to uplift your state of being or your state of mind?

Simple, easy tips, little strategies

I wish you a wonderful day