Fixed or Growth Mindset

What is your self care mindset? Interesting concept, isn’t it?

We often think about mindset as either being a growth mindset or a fixed mindset.

So either you kind of, the cup is half full and there’s more things to learn and, there’s abundance in the world and, there’s always something you can get out of any situation.

Fail forward and make progress

And you can (think about), the concept of maybe like failing forward, you know, is that you’re constantly making progress.

Whereas this idea about a fixed mindset is maybe that, I just want to do things how I did them before, or everything’s been hard.

Maybe I don’t need to change, or maybe just struggle with the idea of moving towards progress or making change.

It’s maybe not that you don’t want to.

So we’d probably all have a few natural tendencies and maybe in some parts of our life, we’re more open to growth and expanding and trying new things.

And maybe in other areas of our life struggle a little bit more.

You can fluctuate between fixed and growth

So I don’t think it’s necessarily fixed that. We’re either all one or the other, but how does that relate into how we care for ourselves?

Now, many people I know, tend to put others in front of caring for themselves.

You know, I see this so often with, particularly with Mum’s, but I also see it with Dad’s too.

And so often it’s like, I’ll put the kids first, the kids need this and that, it’s busy and you get to the end of the day and their it is, no time for me.

Guess i’ll get onto it tomorrow.

Take action today, as tomorrow never arrives

The thing is so often, tomorrow never comes and what can increase our ability to take care of others is so often it’s described as putting your own mask on first.

Put your own mask on first

And that’s kind of a literal mask at the moment during COVID, but I actually made it like on the airplane, put your own mask on first, before you help others.

Because if we’re not taking care of ourselves, our ability to be able to give, to give out our energy and time, our emotional support can start to dwindle.

And so being able to nourish, do things that maybe just make us feel good, not in a selfish, self-absorbed kind of a way, but in a nurturing, caring, supportive kind of way, means that we’re going to be able, to be able to give more, to those we care about and love.

I’m going to ask you to ask yourself, “when was the last time I did something to self care?

“How do I self care?”

Pick one thing you can do today

And maybe in my old school a little bit stuck in my ways, or am I willing to try something new or just do one thing that might support you today?

Tell us what you think if you come up with the one thing that you’re going to do today, pop it below.

We would love to hear from you in the comments. Anyway, look forward to chatting to you soon. Bye for now.