MAR 18-22 | What's Holding You Back - Unhealthy Mindset
When it comes to growth, there’s good news and bad news.
The good news is that you absolutely can grow as a leader. The bad news is that continued growth requires work to sustain.
Growth is never automatic or guaranteed. We don’t naturally drift toward growth. We drift toward complacency, complexity, and decline.
Below, let’s look at three forces fighting against your growth and give you practical strategies to fight back.
1. UNHEALTHY MINDSETS
Unhealthy mindsets create unhealthy leaders and organizations.
Unhealthy mindsets include things like complacency, pride, risk aversion, stagnancy, competition, distraction, apathy, greed, and on and on.
FIGHT BACK AGAINST AN UNHEALTHY MINDSET
To defeat unhealthy mindsets, cultivate a growth mindset.
A great book on this subject is Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck.
Dweck outlines two kinds of mindsets:
A fixed mindset that is unwilling to move or change
A growth mindset that is flexible and adaptable
A growth mindset says, “I can get better” or “I am not good at this … yet.”
Dweck writes that those who have a growth mindset don’t fixate on now because they view themselves as always in a state of becoming.
They’re confident they’re going to become something better, so if they fail or find themselves in an unfavorable circumstance, they view it as a stepping stone to what’s next.
A verse that speaks to maintaining a healthy mindset, especially in the context of faith and spirituality, is found in Romans 12:2:
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
This verse encourages believers not to be influenced by the negative or harmful patterns of thought that are prevalent in the world but to cultivate a mindset that is aligned with God's principles and values. This transformation of the mind, according to the verse, is key to understanding and following God's will.