By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes
Champions are made. Champions in any endeavor have a mindset that allows them to meet all obstacles and overcome. It takes effort. It takes commitment. It takes training. The results are… priceless.
DeVonta Smith said it perfectly when asked about his mindset after receiving the offensive player of the game in the 2021 national championship football game. A game where he was only able to play in the first half because of a hand injury on the first drive of the second half. He said he trusted his training. He trusted his coaching.
There is a great deal of talk about the incredible value of a growth mindset. Carol Dwek, PhD coined the term and is the leading figure in the research into and around this notion of a growth mindset. Essentially, people with a growth mindset believe that intelligence can be developed which leads to a desire to learn and therefor a tendency to:
- embrace challenges
- persist in the face of setbacks
- sees effort as a path to mastery
- learns from criticism
- finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others
As a result they attain higher levels of achievement. Notice the emphasis is on intelligence and the context is learning. Obviously, a growth mindset has implications far beyond education. While I haven’t done the formal PhD level research as Dr. Dwek has, I have enough research and experience under my belt to argue that beyond a growth mindset, champions tend to have a core belief that they are at the cause of what happens in their life, which leads to a competitive attitude and a tendency to believe:
- they are in control of how to interpret what happens to them
- there is no such thing as failure only results
- I can achieve anything I set my mind to
- There is no substitute for hard work
- People are your greatest resource
- I am a master of my destiny
Which leads to a tendency to
- embrace challenges
- persist in the face of setbacks
- sees effort as a path to mastery
- learns from criticism
- finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others
- have a loving mindset
- have faith
These characteristics are all trainable. In fact, you need to constantly be training that mindset. The greatest champion in NFL football history with 7 Super Bowl rings and 5 Super Bowl MVP awards is Tom Brady. Brady is notorious for his constant training – training mind and body.
Mindset training of course involves a great deal of reflection, thinking, questioning, and rehearsing. It is about training the mind. We use our HEAT method to achieve the results we get. We apply habit, emotion, attitude, training to achieve a mindset of a champion. We begin by clearing away obstacles that are lurking in your unconscious and we do that with our Personal Breakthrough Training. With the obstacles cleared out we can then build the foundation.
The foundation of it all rests with a mindset of love. Any organization or team would love to have people working for them that were patient, kind, not envious, not boastful, not dishonoring of others, not self-seeking, not easily angered, doesn’t keep records of wrongs, protects, trusts, hopes, and always perseveres. Those are some of the characteristics of love. Those characteristics are trainable and honorable. People who have that whole package are highly sought after.
After the foundation is built we work on building the two piers that will hold up the arch. Those are faith and faithfulness. We then work on training the mind with patterns of thinking and specific skills around learning (mind), health, fitness, and well-being (body), family, friendships, and finally the keystone that holds it all-together building the spirit of a champion. With all those pieces trained a person is ready to take on all of life’s challenges and achieve a well-rounded, personally rewarding and fulfilling life. Then they may choose to learn and develop the Millionaire’s Mindset.
At Growth Mindset Training Academy we have a significant amount of valuable information to get anyone who wants to develop a mindset of a champion started on that journey. It is a first class curriculum for those who are homeschooling their children. It would be best for those fourteen and older unless they are quite mature and self-driven in which case someone as young as twelve could get started, but that would be the exception not the rule. Even small business owners might want to incentivize the purchase and completion of the program for their employees. There are several different bundle options available though the most valuable by far is to invest in the complete training bundle. We highly recommend that for any family that has teenagers. You can get it for the entire family and it is an incredible bargain. I also offer special private training programs or master classes. These are by invite only.
