Mindful Monday - Thriving Outside of Your Comfort Zone - Part 4: Mindset

About This Talk

Chris Masiello turns to mindset in the fourth part of his series on thriving outside your comfort zone. He contrasts victim thinking, “Why is this happening to me?”, with beneficiary thinking, “What am I supposed to learn?”, and links the two to scarcity and abundance. He asks listeners to notice their own talk track and flip it, treating each change as a teacher that shows up when they are ready.

Key Ideas

• Circumstance is the best teacher, and whatever happens, large or small, came to teach us something we are now ready to learn.
• Asking “Why is this happening to me?” makes us a victim; asking “What am I supposed to learn?” makes us a beneficiary of the event.
• Saying “I can’t believe this is happening again” is a sign of a cycle, and a cue to ask how to get out of it.
• Resisting change takes far more energy than going with the flow and asking what you’ll learn along the way.
• Abundance keeps the mind open to endless opportunity, while scarcity narrows the aperture, and the world around us mirrors our thinking.

“I’m a big believer in that you are always exactly where you’re supposed to be, otherwise you’d be someplace else.”