3 Ways Your Mindset Affects Your Life

Being an entrepreneur brings many challenges along with its many benefits.

One challenge in particular involves your business mindset and recognizing if you’re setting yourself up for success or failure.

Figuring out what mindset you have involves using your common sense. If you’re afraid to fail, chances are that’s what will happen because you won’t want to take any risks so you won’t take any action.

However, it IS possible to shift this mindset; so instead of being afraid, you become determined to make your business work. Which scenario do you prefer: Being determined and taking action or being afraid and cowering in a corner, doing nothing?

Here are some other common mindsets that may negatively affect your business:

1. A negative mindset can affect your confidence. How do you react if a customer says you made a mistake or they’re not happy with your final product? Does it rock your world for days at a time or can you regroup, make the correction, and move on? If your brain is telling you to reach for perfection, then of course you’ll be extremely disappointed when you make a mistake or misunderstand your customer’s needs. Accept the fact that you’re human and find a way to make the customer happy. Then jot down that lesson in a journal or implement a new process so that type of mistake doesn’t happen again.

This lack of confidence may prevent you from taking that jump from employee to entrepreneur to begin with.

Do you want to be stuck working in a cubicle for other people or would you like the freedom to set your own hours, work on the projects you choose, and to answer only to yourself?

2. A poverty mindset can affect how you set prices. “Money blocks” is a popular buzz phrase lately but I still hear story after story of small business entrepreneurs who consistently underprice their products. If you’re underpricing just to get the sale, then you run the risk of not earning enough to pay your bills and you’re telling customers subliminally that you don’t value yourself enough. If customers don't like paying your prices, then those aren’t the right customers for you.
3. An imposter mindset can affect how you present yourself to others. Another common theme among small business entrepreneurs is feeling like an imposter, especially if their skills are self-taught or their market has thousands of competitors already. Feeling like an imposter also feeds into these other situations above, where you lack confidence and don’t charge your worth because you feel like you’re not good enough. Portraying this image to customers could cause them to reconsider shopping with you, simply because they want to be fully confident that you are competent to get them their order.

Knowing and understanding your mindset about different aspects of your business is important for your personal growth as well as your business growth.

But don’t despair: Mindset shifts are certainly possible with some steady practice. Very often it involves changing that negative self-talk into positive self-talk, or adopting the opposite thought. So if you don’t feel confident about a situation, think about all the good work you have done for your customers instead and read their testimonials. Done frequently enough, your confidence will grow.

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