Losing like a winner is all about your mindset. After a loss do you have an impulsive or strategic mindset? An impulsive mindset is one that can’t resist the temptation to select the first behavior that comes to mind. Moreover, an impulsive mindset will cause you to choose past behaviors even when better new behaviors […]
Every motivational speaker and self-help guru will tell you that failure is the key to success. However, what’s often missing in their speeches is why! Why can’t you just go from one success to the next repeatedly and keep growing and getting better? Well, it comes down to how the process of improvement works. Unfortunately, […]
Psychologist Albert Bandura in his preeminent book Self-Efficacy defines self-efficacy as the exercise of control over things that affect your life. I like to describe self-efficacy as the mindset you use to control your destiny. Bandura’s research shows that higher levels of self-efficacy equate to higher levels of effort and belief in that effort producing results. Moreover, […]