How Goal-Oriented People Use Their Mindset to Embrace Hard Work
For goal-oriented people, purpose drives almost everything they do. If something doesn’t have a purpose, then goal-oriented people have little motivation. What’s more, when you motivate yourself like this, you must also have a mindset that’s willing to embrace hard work.
For goal-oriented people purpose is much more than checking off an item on a to-do list. Creating a run-of-the-mill to-do list to check-off is not enough. Without the prospect of overcoming a meaningful obstacle, a checklist won’t provide enough purpose for a goal-oriented person.
As a result of this approach to life goal-oriented people have a mindset advantage over many others when it comes to the threat vs. challenge mindset. The threat vs. challenge mindset is the primary mindset type that dictates how one performs in stressful situations. Furthermore, hard work is stressful.
When your motivation is a by-product of embracing hard work as it is for goal-oriented people, then you learn to treat stress as a challenge instead of a threat. This means triggering emotions that prepare you to be at your best instead of emotions that cause anger, fear, and worry. To put it differently, hard work makes goal-oriented people better and being better helps them pursue their purpose.
If you are a person who tends to shy away from difficult challenges, work on learning this lesson. Think about how the hard work it takes to overcome a difficult challenge will make you better. In addition, remember that it’s emotionally draining to view difficulties as threats, and as long as you do this you will never be at your best.