Episode #27: How Your Thinking Patterns Affect Your Business
As the decision maker in your business, your thinking patterns are an important asset to protect and cultivate. When it comes to evaluating your thinking patterns, it’s much more complex than choosing to think positively. In fact, simply thinking positively can even cause you to purposefully ignore important information that you really need to consider in order to avoid negative consequences.
If it’s not just about being a positive thinker, what thinking patterns are beneficial in helping you grow your business?
In this episode, I want to talk about the power of your thoughts and how your thinking patterns affect you and your business growth. And I’ll share a few tips for how to protect and cultivate your thoughts to help you develop your entrepreneurial mindset as you grow your business.
Episode Highlights:
How our thinking patterns can be conscious and unconscious
My personal story about how I had to shift my thinking patterns in order to start my business
How practicing gratitude can help you think creatively about your resources
How to design your thoughts to cultivate resilience
How to find and analyze the data around you to feed your thinking patterns
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
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Episode #4: How to Confront Imposter Syndrome and Use it to Your Advantage
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Interview of Daniel Kahneman explaining System 1 and 2
Dr. Caroline Leaf Article about Reconceptualization
Episode #25: How to Conduct Market Research for Your Teacher Business
Action Steps:
Find a way to practice gratitude - whether that’s a gratitude walk or a journal or even just a simple conversation with someone you love and trust to help you bring to mind the resources and experiences that you already have to draw on as you build your business.
Redesign one thought - Find one thought that you’ve noticed is causing you some to feel some kind of discouragement or stress and go through Dr. Leaf’s steps for reconceptualization by first acknowledging the thought, identifying why it’s there, and then redesigning how you’re going to think about it, whether that’s by finding or focusing on other evidence or cultivating your resilience.
Analyze the data - Look for relationships and models that can support you and exemplify the lifestyle and goals that you are working towards.
I’d love for you to take a screenshot of this episode and share it in your stories and tag me or send me a DM on instagram and let me know which one of these thought tips connected with you.
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If you’re wondering what a marketing system could look like for you, I made a quiz to help you make decisions about marketing for your teacher business. Marketing is how to get the word out about what you have to sell, and that process looks different for everyone. So if you’re not sure what platforms you should be using or how much marketing you should be doing, head over to gracemariegriffith.com/marketingquiz and answer ten questions about your business.
