5 Unhealthy Mindsets That Block You From Success

Changing your mind is paramount to Conquering Your Reality! Mindset is half the battle to any success. Your mindset can make or break you along your journey to success, allowing you to succeed with confidence or causing you to fail with self-doubt. I have seen the evidence of this in my own life many times.

But I’ve learned that before you can change your mindset, you have to be able to identify the problem areas within the mindset you have. Here are five key unhealthy mindsets that can block you from achieving success in life:

1) Blameless Mindset

We all are guilty of blaming other people for our mistakes at some point or another. Excuses come easy, after all. But most people grow out of this as they come into their maturity. Making excuses will cause you to become stuck in life because you don’t take personal responsibility, which keeps you from moving forward and succeeding.

Stop making excuses for your mistakes and own them; you cannot succeed if you think you’re blameless in life. Praise yourself for the good work you’re doing, and the efforts you make to learn how to fix what you’re doing wrong. This will improve your performance as and help keep you from making the same mistakes in the future.

2) Approval Mindset

Another sign of immaturity that will hold you back from success is seeking approval from your colleagues and superiors. If you do nothing but seek their approval, you often tune out conversations, missing vital information because you were too worried about how best to respond.

Psychology Today said it best: “Every second you spend seeking reassurance is a second you aren’t focused on the task at hand.” You have to stay focused on doing your best and remind yourself that you can’t control how others will respond to you or your work. Stop seeking approval and prove to yourself that you are capable!

3) Hyper-Negative Mindset

You can easily cause yourself to choke up or jinx yourself into a bad performance/bad work by focusing on the negative. Having a hyper-negative mindset is never good; it’s the one sure-fire way to be on a path destined for failure.

Unless you’re deliberately planning solutions to dealing with worst-case scenarios that may occur, leave the what-ifs behind you. Predicting disastrous outcomes only leads to increased anxiety and nerves.

4) Second-Guessing Mindset

Second-guessing is like poison to your decisions. While reflecting on the decisions you’ve made in the past can be good, second-guessing is different altogether. Second-guessing is usually the major indecisiveness of minor decisions. Most of the time we are spending time on small things that won’t make a difference in the big picture.

Second-guessing can weaken your confidence, and ability to make decisions. While it’s frequently thought of as a way to catch errors or be absolutely certain, it usually does far more harm than good.

5) Self-Doubt Mindset

Confidence is needed in order to achieve success, and confidence cannot exist where self-doubt thrives. You have to have, and display, confidence in yourself and your decisions to succeed. A person who is confidently wrong is more likely to succeed than someone who is doubtfully right.

You can’t go into anything doubting yourself, thinking yourself incapable of handling it. This type of thinking can cause you to mess up where you otherwise would have done fine.

Mindset is half the battle when it comes to achieving success. You have to put yourself in the right mindset to push past any negativity or wrong decisions. It really takes diligence and time to work out of an unhealthy mindset.

It’s essential to try and keep a positive mindset when trying to conquer your reality. Focus on the positives, what you’re good at rather than where you’re failing, and where you’ve improved rather than what you’ve done wrong. This can help to ensure you stay in the right mindset throughout your journey.

Remember I’m here for you.

Hearts & Hugs,
Jen