Mindset is the sum total of your beliefs, values, identity, expectations, attitudes, habits, decisions, opinions and thought patterns… about yourself, others and how life works. It is the filter through which you interpret what you see and experience.

One’s mindset shapes  life and draws results that are an exact reflection of it. What one believes will happen, happens.

Thoughts are powerful magnets. Whatever our mindset tells us, that’s what we attract, whether or not we’re even aware of what our mindset is! Suppose that you have the belief that “Life is very hard and you have to struggle just to keep up,” you don’t have to be aware of that belief in order to experience struggle. If fact, if you want to see what your mindset really is, you have only to look at your life and your results. The Bible tells us, “According to your beliefs it shall be done unto you.”

When we don’t examine our mindset and question whether it supports us or limit us, we are operating “on automatic.” We are no longer choosing our beliefs and mindset, but they nevertheless cause us to live a certain way. We create our own mindset, but at some point, our mindset creates us. If we don’t question a belief that “life is hard,” for instance, we are going to keep struggling without even knowing why.

What is your mindset? Whatever you “think” about must eventually come about. How may you be limiting your results?

Start with the right belief in mind.