Mindset is everything! It can be what makes or breaks a new habit. It can be the thing that inspires you to start a new habit or it can prevent you from even considering it altogether.

As a coach, I am lucky to be a part of people’s transformations. While transformation in general is amazing, when people can change the way they think about themselves, it is absolutely incredible. I have watched people go from shit talking themselves and being full of self doubt to completely believing in themselves and ready to conquer the world.

Honestly, the main reason they were so successful was because they had a complete mindset shift. The mindset shift didn’t come immediately, they had already begun to be successful with making changes, but it was key to making those habits / changes stick.

I had a client who had been trying to overhaul her lifestyle. She wanted to create new habits around exercise and eating. She knew she could do it because she had been successful in the past. But she always hit a certain point and then things would fall apart. She had done this so many times that she could no longer recognize her successes, only her failures.

When we first starting working together she never had a positive thing to say about herself when it came to exercise or eating. She used sarcasm to make it seem like she wasn’t being as mean to herself as she actually was. No matter how many times I pointed out her successes I could tell she didn’t see herself that way. She was full of self doubt and fear of failure. She wasn’t really sure she could do this no matter how badly she wanted it.

Slowly, her habits began to change. She set them up in a way that they just became a part of her day; she didn’t have to think about them, she just did them. They were automated.

Not only were her habits automated, so were her thoughts about what she was doing. We spent so much time focusing on her successes and using her failures as a tool to figure out how to make things better that she no longer doubted herself.

When she hit the time frame where she usually fell off track she didn’t even consider the idea of failure because that just wasn’t who she was anymore.  There was no doubt and no question of whether or not she could do this. She was doing it.

Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are correct. How you think, your mindset, determines what your life will look like. But the coolest thing about this is you can change how you think whenever you want. You have control and you get to choose.

What are you going to choose?