Ever seen a negative as a positive? In this week’s Winning Mindset Mastery podcast, discover how to transform life’s challenges into incredible opportunities with this number one mindset technique. From overcoming financial hurdles to navigating complex family dynamics, learn to reframe your perspective and unlock hidden potential. With practical tips and inspiring stories, this episode empowers you to see the silver lining in every cloud and achieve extraordinary results.
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We have here a reframe round-robin. Why? Because I have had so many reframes floating around in my mind this week. I was thinking about, as I’m having conversations with friends and clients and even strangers, that everything we think of as a negative has another side to it. Some of the things that people would think they would never want to happen to them or never want to experience have such a great plus side.
Maybe you’re in the middle of it right now. Maybe you know someone who is struggling with this particular thought or idea. I wanted to share with you just these different reframes that I had throughout the week because it can be powerful for someone when they need that particular pick-me-up. The more often you practice reframes, the better you get at it.
The Power Of Reframing Negative Situations
You are teaching your mind to do these incredible shortcuts all on its own, and it will start to reframe things for you. Think about this, your mind gets two million pieces of information every single second from all of your senses. Your conscious mind can process about 126 of them. Isn’t that crazy? The activities that you do the most and the pathways that you utilize in your mind through reframes or through your winning mindset help you choose what you focus on. Of those two million things, I want you to focus on the most powerful 126. This will help you do it.
Reframe Stories
One of the biggest reframes that I hear from folks all the time, and what I mean by that is things that need to be reframed, is folks who say, “I don’t have a lot of resources. I don’t have a lot of money.” I completely understand how challenging that can feel in the moment. If you’ve heard anything about my life story, I have lived that and I have gone through it.
What is incredible though is anyone who has at any time not had the amount of money that they needed or wanted has the opportunity to get good at creating and earning money. Those are opportunities that will stay with you throughout your life. You say, “How is that such a big benefit?” People who are given money or who have it all along do not have that confidence that if that money went away, they could get it again. If you have gone through the process of earning and creating money for yourself, you have the satisfaction of knowing that no matter what happens, you can do that again.
If you have gone through the process of earning and creating money for yourself, you have the satisfaction of knowing that no matter what happens, you could do that again. Share on X
I’ll never forget when I was in one of my first successful sales roles, but I was in a company that was going through a drawdown, and they were letting go of people. I’d been given fantastic advice to always stay close to the revenue and know that you were responsible for a good chunk of it. That keeps you “safe.” It’s not foolproof, but it works pretty well.
When someone said, “They could let go of anyone and you haven’t been here that long, what are you going to do?” I said, “I’m a hell of a waitress. I’ll figure it out.” That’s what I mean. When you know that you’ve made money before, the idea that you might not have the exact same salary or the exact same nest egg that you had before is nowhere near as daunting.
Another one. I had a lot of folks recently that have been struggling with their family structure. I like to dispel a myth for everyone while I’m talking about this. No one has a normal family. Everyone thinks everyone else has a normal family, and theirs is crazy and they should keep it a secret, or maybe that’s just me, but no one has a normal family. You are not missing out on something that someone else has. It might look better from the outside. They might be much more polished at hiding their crazy, but no one has a normal family.
However, folks who don’t have a successful family a lot of times think, “I missed out. My parents could have taught me so much. They could have done this. They could have done that.” Here’s my reframe on that. I did not in any way, shape, or form come from a successful family. The gift of that was this. One, no one told me what to do.
When your parents, in their well-meaning way, map out the path for you, and you are maybe 45 to 55 years old and they’re still telling you what they think you should do. If you don’t have super successful parents, they usually leave you alone and let you make your own choices. If they don’t, you have the ability to think, “They don’t have a life I would want. I’m going to trust my own choices instead of worrying about the pressure from them.” Candidly, when I see some of the pressure that folks I know are under because of expectations from their parents, I wouldn’t have traded it. No way.
Another one. Someone was complaining this week, “I don’t pick things up very quickly. It takes me forever to get them. Once I have them, they’re nailed, but I don’t pick things up very quickly.” Those people are fantastic at teaching things to other people. For me to teach people, I’ve got to slow myself down and make sure that I don’t skip any steps. It makes me pretty subpar as a teacher. I try hard and I want to help people.
When something doesn’t come naturally to you, you immediately become incredible at sharing with someone else how to do it. That makes you so valuable in so many ways to organizations and people and things like that. When you think about something taking you a long time in that way, and you’re frustrated, think about the fact that once you have it, you have it. You can impact the entire world by sharing that with somebody else.
Lastly, I’m literally on a round-robin of reframes. I was talking with someone else who felt like they should have had their entire world figured out, and that they should know what they wanted to be when they grew up. This individual was in their late 40s and felt like they’d never figured it out. Here’s another secret. I don’t think anyone has it 100% figured out, they just got it decided on for now. If you think about that, how fun because nothing is decided forever.
That means there are more opportunities, more exciting things, and more fun things that can come in your life, opportunities and things that you can do that you don’t even know about yet. Let’s reframe that. Instead of thinking that we should have all the answers about our careers and our lives, what if we let it unfold and surprise us in an exciting and fun way?
That’s it for our round-robin of reframes. If you have a situation you’d like me to reframe, go to the website, WinningMindsetMasteryPodcast.com. Down at the bottom, you can ask April. Share your situation with me and I will answer you personally and privately. Here’s to your success.