Mindset: Helping You Reach Your Business Potential

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In this episode, we delve into the profound difference between happiness and joy. While happiness is often fleeting and influenced by external factors, joy is a deeper, more sustainable state that stems from your inner belief system. We discuss how joy comes from meaningful accomplishments and the importance of embracing discomfort to achieve personal growth and fulfillment.

We explore the significance of surrounding yourself with the right people to maintain a growth mindset. Your inner circle should reinforce positive thinking, behavior, and responses, pushing you to overcome obstacles and learn from failures. A growth mindset allows you to achieve success, build resilience, and improve relationships.

Additionally, we break down the characteristics of a growth mindset, including alignment, shared understanding, mutual respect, flexibility, and common goals. Protect your goals and focus on your intended audience to deliver meaningful content.

Join us on this journey to discover how defining joy, embracing challenges, and fostering a growth mindset can transform your personal and business life.

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Episode Transcript

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Mindset, helping you reach your business potential.
Music.
Welcome to Marcom Techniques, a podcast about marketing communications and technology
with special series on thought leadership.

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Be sure to follow us on social media and on your favorite podcast platform.
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I talked about happiness versus joy and how joy is much deeper than happiness.
Happiness can be temporary and dependent on outside sources other than yourself.

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Joy, however, comes from an inner source from how you define your inner belief system.
An example of happiness is when you might be scrolling on your phone,
on your IG or Facebook book and see something adorable or funny that makes you
laugh out loud or smile, right? That is happiness.
It is short-lived because the next minute you could see something that changes your mood.

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So happiness can be fleeting. So people define themselves as unhappy.
Well, many of us are unhappy most of the time.
We can't always be in a perpetual state of happiness because it won't push us
towards our real goal, which is joy.
For example, some of these things can bring you joy.

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It could be a family, but keep in mind, it will not always bring you happiness,
but in the long term, it will bring you joy.
There's a difference between the two and you cannot be in perpetual state of
happiness to achieve true joy.
And that is how you get out of your comfort zone.

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True joy comes from working hard and finding accomplishments in your hard work,
meaning that you have to work for happiness in personal relationships and in
business relationships.
And this is where the illusion of happy people versus joyful people comes into play.
You may have someone who may have appearances of happiness, but is not full

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of joy, which is deeper and more sustainable in mental health.
So how do you define joy for yourself?
Joy is heavily associated with the purpose and drive of a person.
So there are ways to help you define that. You can also create an interlinked
process to your definition to create motivation behind the purpose of finding joy.

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This will allow you to create an environment of endurance and relentless favorable
outcomes, no matter your circumstances.
My joy is family and business, and I combine the two, and it gives me happiness,
drives my purpose, and ultimately gives me joy. Now, do we fight? Yes.
Does that make me happy? No. But in that unhappiness is where we find joy,

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because conflict is where we solve problems to progress forward.
And find joy. Unhappiness is an indication that there's something wrong and
it's your job to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it.
This is where surrounding yourself with the right people is super important.
I cannot stress enough that your inner circle should be exclusive because business

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is difficult and you need to have an exclusive circle to maintain your mindset.
This This inner circle will reinforce how we think, not feel,
but think, behave, and respond to situations, push us to grow and overcome obstacles,
learn from failures, and not only achieve personal growth, but business growth.

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Why do I emphasize the word feelings when speaking about mindset?
Happiness is a feeling, whereas joy involves more of a state of being in a deeper
happiness. You're not going to feel like doing a lot of things,
which will make you unhappy.
And that is not how you obtain joy. You have to go through the uncomfortable

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zone to step into a place that will allow you to grow.
So what are we talking about here? Let's place a name on it so we can identify this within ourselves.
What is fixed mindset versus growth mindset? People with fixed mindset fear
failure and avoid challenges because they believe the odds are against them

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and they cannot improve their circumstances.
Now that we discuss fixed mindset, let's talk about growth mindset.
Now, this is a person who believes in their abilities, whether through a personal
development, through learning, taking calculated risk, learning from failures, being persistent and
and taking challenges as opportunities. The growth mindset allows you to do four major things.

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Achieve success, overcome obstacles, build resilience, improve relationships.
Going over the four things.
Achieving success through skill development.
Two, overcoming obstacles through finding a community that will positively challenge you.
Three, building resilience through finding opportunities through obstacles.
Think about it like this. What obstacles are you facing that other people are

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facing? And how did you overcome those obstacles?
And how can you help others achieve that similar success?
Four, improving relationships. With growth mindset, you can improve relationships
by having a positive mindset.
Most importantly, improving your relationship with yourself first and foremost
by creating a circle of people who have a similar vision and growth mindset.

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Let's dive deeper into mindset. mindset is a mental attitude.
When you add success and its goals for that success, that automatically adds
a different variable to your growth mindset.
Adding your definition of what is success means to you will automatically shift your mindset.

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So many people think they share the same mindset, but what they are referring
to is mindset of success, not necessarily your shared vision, or goals.
Let's not confuse goals with mindset. There's a mindset of success shared by
many, but not the same goals in life.
And this is important in order to create direction for your success and goals

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and helping you find your right community.
Let's recap for a bit. You have to define what is happiness for you,
which is short-lived success,
Joy. Remember, happiness is fleeting as emotions.
It comes and goes quickly. But joy is something that lasts longer and it comes
from you putting in the work to get to that stage.
But you have to define that as well. In joy, you will find your purpose because

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it will supply you with a deeper extension of happiness.
With that said, you will discover how to create your goals in life and that
will drive your mindset.
This means you have to get out there and try new things. And that is where failure comes into play.
Embrace it because that is where you find your joy and purpose and your goals and your mindset.

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There are five characteristics of a similar mindset.
Number one, alignment. Number two, shared understanding.
Number three, mutual respect. Number four, flexibility.
Number five, common goals. Going over the five, alignment.
A similar mindset often involves aligning one's thoughts, values,
beliefs with those of others, creating a sense of unity and cohesion.

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Two, shared understanding.
It is based on shared understanding of the world, its complexity,
and the challenges that comes with it. Number three, mutual respect.
A similar mindset is often built on mutual respect, trust, empathy,
allowing individuals to work together effectively and efficiently.

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Number four, flexibility. Flexibility. It involves being open to new ideas,
perspectives, and experiences and being willing to adapt and adjust one's thinking
accordingly to obtain those goals.
Number five, common goals.
A similar mindset often revolves around shared goals, values,

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providing a sense of direction and purpose.
Protect your goals. Don't always disclose your goals. You don't need to explain yourself.
No one will champion you as you will champion yourself.
Share your goals with the right mindset community.
Focus on your audience and focus on your message.

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It is okay for someone to misinterpret you as long as it is not your intended
audience you're reaching for.
Your true metrics are whatever you deliver for your audience.
Thank you for joining us on our podcast.
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