The Mindset to Pursue New Opportunities

What you believe (mindset) will shape what you do (habits). If you have a mindset that what you are doing now doesn’t matter, and by not caring or being engaged you develop lackadaisical habits in your school working ethics, these will be hard to break when you enter the workforce. Poor perspectives lead to lazy habits and these elements combine to create mediocre working habits. 

You don’t have to be a genius, a nerd, or a brown noser to be successful in school or at work. But, your attitude and level of effort now will carry into the workplace and likely into your relationships. For most of us, how we do one thing is also how we approach most things. If you half-ass at school, you likely do the same in sports, work, relationships, and anything else you are involved in. 

The Habits for Achievement

You probably think this isn’t true. But try me. See if trying a little harder at school doesn’t translate to trying a little harder in sports, elevating your effort at work, and even being more engaged in your close relationships. 

Pursuing new opportunities requires you to:

• Listen a little better so you can hear what is going on around you and identify what may have been there the whole time just waiting for you to notice 
• Look a little closer at things that have been happening around you so you can see more clearly 
• Try even just a little bit harder and see if that level of effort doesn’t spill over into multiple areas of your life 

You cannot achieve new things without gaining new knowledge, improving your skills, and elevating your abilities. If you are wasting all the free education and opportunities being presented to you now, you will develop a blindness and deafness for recognizing them in the future. Everything you can learn and do, school, sports, volunteering, mentorship, etc. is free or low cost now. If you aren’t taking advantage of them you are being foolish. 

Be more present and appreciate what other people are saying to you, doing for you, and investing in you.​​