In today’s episode of the Winning Mindset Mastery Podcast, April tells you about three mindset hacks she uses in her own life and business. If you’re an entrepreneur or an employee wanting to make a great impression and big impact in your current role, these can make your work easier, less stressful, more productive. They can also have a positive impact in your personal life.
As you listen, you’ll discover:
- When, and why, to get new friends;
- A HUGE benefit of having a winning mindset;
- How to make the decision to hire a task out instead of doing it yourself;
- A powerful mindset exercise if you feel can’t afford it yet.
April is REALLY excited about these three mindset hacks. She’s confident you will be also. Tune into today’s episode of the Winning Mindset Mastery Podcast to find out more.
—
Listen to the podcast here
Three Mindset Hacks to Make Your Business And Personal Life Easier
In this episode, I am excited to share with you three of my favorite mindset hacks. To be fair, my mindset hacks are my favorite go in and out of style. It’s almost like, “This is my favorite shirt right now. This is my favorite food,” but these are the three that I am excited about and using more and more in my life. I want to share them with you. These work, whether you’re an entrepreneur or a person with a career and job, and you want to make life and your job easier. They work both ways. They’re 100% effective and big game-changers if you’re an entrepreneur. Maybe 85%, if you are someone who’s on a corporate-type career path but still totally worth hearing.
The first one is the relationships in your life will fill in the gaps. From an entrepreneur’s perspective, what I mean is you wear so many different hats. There are so many things as you become an entrepreneur that you take on, learn, try, and do yourself. You can’t learn and know everything. It gives you peace of mind to understand that your relationships and network can help you fill in the gap. For the things that you can’t do, you either know someone or you know someone who knows someone who can help you.
Sometimes, we’re unlikely to reach out and ask for that help or say, and I’m telling myself here, “I’m good. Thanks so much,” when people reach out and offer it. That is what I did in the early years of my business. Be smarter than me. Utilize that network and those relationships you have. Allow them to help you. Remember that you don’t have to do everything. Between you and the folks you know and the folks you know know, you have everything covered.
Mindset Hacks: You don’t have to do everything. Utilize your network and the relationships you have. Allow them to help you.
The way this works from a career perspective is if you’re going to look for a job and want to work somewhere else, you know someone who has an acquaintance, a friend, or someone they can refer you to at your dream company. If you are looking for resources to hire someone to help you with things in your house, you don’t have to do all the research. You have relationships with people who want to help you, who like you, and who want to see you succeed.
If you are tuning in to me and you’re like, “My friends aren’t like that. They don’t want to help me. They don’t want me to succeed,” you need new friends. You deserve better friends. As you are tuning in and working on having a winning mindset, you’re going to attract better people because those are the kind of people that you deserve to be around.
The second one is similar but different. That one is to hire your way out of things that don’t deserve your attention. From the entrepreneur’s perspective, here’s what I mean. There are things that you do in your business that on a scale of 1 to 10, you’re about a 6 at, or you have no desire to learn and you don’t enjoy doing it. You’re mowing the lawn outside of your office building, or you’re mowing the lawn outside of your house if you work from home. Based on the amount of revenue you generate and what you are worth, those jobs are not the best use of your time. It’s not the best use for you personally or for your company.
Hire your way out of them. You don’t have to hire a full-time employee. Hire an expert who knows the thing that you’re not interested in learning. Hire someone from Upwork or Fiverr to do the graphic that you don’t want to work on. Hire your way out of things that are not the best use of your time so that you’re not constantly working on your business. You’re also taking the time to work on your business. If you’re not an entrepreneur and you may think this doesn’t apply to you, it does. There are things that you spend your time on right now that are not the best use of your time.
Mindset Hacks: Hire an expert who knows the thing that you’re not interested in learning.
You know how much you make an hour, whether you realize it or not. Even if you’re salary, you have an idea of how much you earn for every hour you work because that’s the information that you subconsciously use to decide if something is expensive or not. You know how many hours it would take you to get that particular thing.
There are some things that fall outside of these parameters. I love the things where we are oddly cheap, but for the most part, that’s how you know what you make and how much you earn. If something that you are doing with your time that you do not enjoy and cannot stand is less than what you make an hour, you need to hire that out. Whether that’s mowing your lawn, doing handyman-type of things around the house, cleaning your house, or whatever that is, I want you to find a resource and gift yourself the time back by hiring someone to do it.
If something that you’re doing with your time that you don’t enjoy and cannot stand is less than what you make an hour, you need to hire that out. Gift yourself the time back by hiring someone to do it. Share on XIf you’re tuning in and you say, “April, that would be amazing but right now, I’m figuring out how to make my car payment and pay my mortgage or my rent. This is not feasible for me.” I get you. I was there for many years. What I want you to do is think about how amazing it will feel and where you need to be in your life to be able to do that because you will be able to get there and do it. Just thinking about what it’s going to be like to hand those duties over to someone can be an awesome mindset exercise because it can bring you closer and closer to that being your reality.
The third one is my favorite. I love this. I was one of those people who always wanted to give 100% all the time. I also wanted to give 120% because I cared, grinding, hustling, and all those things that I thought were so important to prove. It’s probably not even possible to give 120%. We just like to say it. What’s interesting is you don’t have to give 100% every day. You actually don’t have to be 100% certain to make a decision.
How many times when we’re feeling indecisive or we’re like, “I’m not 100% sure this is the right decision?” A hundred percent is not what we need to get things done and make a decision. We need 51%. We need 1% more than we’re uncertain. We need 1% more bravery than scared. We need 1% more in it than not. Not that we’re going to do that every single day, but those days that we’re a little bit above the line, that’s okay. That’s enough and you can move forward.
There will be a day when you feel 100%, but when you don’t, 51% is enough. The younger me would’ve said, “That is not true and you’re never going to feel like that.” It is true. There are days when I go to do my workout. The best thing I did was get there and do those reps, but I wasn’t in it. I was in it enough to be there versus stay at home. There are so many things in your life and business that show up that way for you.
Mindset Hacks: There will be a day when you feel 100%, but when you don’t, 51% is enough.
If you can get to 51%, that’s enough. If you do that consistently enough times and you’re going to find that more often than not, you’re way over 50%. You’re feeling great about the things that you’re doing in your life and your business. I want you to try these out and let me know how they’re working for you. I love to have a two-way conversation. You can hit me up on my website, WinningMindsetMasteryPodcast.com. All the way down at the bottom of the page is Ask April. You push that button and tell me how it’s going. Ask me a question. That’s private. You can ask me those things personally and I will answer you myself. I can’t wait to hear about it. Here’s to your success.
