mindfulness

Over 30 years ago, Dr Carol Dweck coined the term fixed mindset and growth mindset. Not surprisingly, people who have a fixed mindset do not change so much in their abilities. People with a growth mindset, meaning that they believe they can change and grow, will have much higher levels of accomplishments.Research shows that we can teach our brain to create new connections and strengthen existing ones. People who have a growth mindset behave differently. Many people have a mix of different mindsets. For example, one person may believe that they can continue…Read more

Leo Babauta presented a very interesting talk titled, Mindfulness: The Key to Habit Change. He stressed how important it is to convert our goals into habits. When we focus on goals, on the future, we often get stuck in: procrastination, rationalisation and self talk. We need to put our goals into our routine. For example, every sunday morning we will exercise before breakfast as part of the routine. Or every wed night we will write in our journal. The idea is we pick a goal and force it to become a habit, so…Read more