When you want to create the life you really want, it can be easy to believe your current circumstances are standing in the way. Host April Shprintz breaks down why your circumstances don’t have to determine what’s possible for you, and how learning to see what happens as happening for you, not to you can change what you do next.
Whether something happens outside your control or you find yourself reacting before you have all the information, you’ll learn how to focus on what you want instead of what you don’t want. April walks through her practical reframing process, including how to recognize when you’re too emotionally charged to solve a problem, step back and look at the situation more objectively, and ask what else could be true.
Practice this mindset technique every day, because the more you train your mind to look for possibilities, the easier it becomes to respond differently when life doesn’t go according to plan.
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Why Mindset Is The First Step
Why Mindset Is So Important
Thank you for joining me. I’m so glad you’re here. For those of you who are joining on Spotify or YouTube, you may have noticed it’s our first video episode. I am super excited.
Now, if you’re one of my OG people and you are listening audio only, I love that you’re here. I love that you’ve been here for this journey. And I can’t wait for us to take all these new next steps together.
So I’m gonna take it back a little bit and talk about why mindset is so important to me, specifically in my life and also for you in how it improves your life and how it’s the first step for manifesting.
So for me, mindset was really the first thing that I studied that helped me realize that my circumstances didn’t matter. I was my possibilities. And the more I focused on what I do want instead of what I don’t want, the more my circumstances changed to be exactly what I wanted.
My circumstances didn't matter. I was my possibilities. Share on X
You Can Control How You Feel About What Happens
And the mindset part of it is so important because we can’t control what happens. But we can absolutely control how we feel about it, how we react to it, and what we do from there.
And one of the easiest ways to do that is to see everything that happens, whether you would before have labeled it as good or bad, as happening for you, not to you.
And the reason this is so important when we talk about manifesting, if you’re big into the law of attraction, or hey, if you’re not, that’s too woo-woo for you, no problem, because you can also use your mindset to get everything you want.
Manifesting, Prayer, Or Focusing On The Goal
So whether you call it manifesting, you call it prayer, you call it focusing on the goal, that doesn’t matter.
All of those things require you to utilize your mind and focus on the things you want, not the things you don’t want.
And that’s what Winning Mindset Mastery is all about. It’s about teaching you to focus on the things that you want to get in your life. Ignore the things that you don’t want to get.
All of those things require you to utilize your mind and focus on the things you want, not the things you don't want. Share on X
Reframe What Happens For You, Not To You
And when you have a situation that’s thrown to you out of the blue, reframe it and realize that in some way, shape, or form, it is happening for you, not to you.
And reframing can be really tough in the moment. So it’s something that the more you practice day in, day out, the better you’re going to get at it. And the more easily it’s going to come to you when you’re in one of those really tough situations.
When you have a situation that's thrown to you out of the blue, reframe it and realize that in some way, shape, or form, it is happening for you, not to you. Share on X
Check Where Your Oven Is
So if you’re new here or if you’ve been here a while, let’s just go through our reframing process really quick.
Number one, let’s just check where our oven is, right? We can cook things at 500 degrees or we can cook things at 180 and reheat them and then be just fine.
But if you’re at 500 degrees, you’re not going to be able to solve problems.
You’re going to need to give yourself a break, take a walk, call a friend, take a nap. Just distract yourself from the issue until you can come back at it and look at it in a way that is more calm and more objective.
If you're at 500 degrees, you're not going to be able to solve problems. Share on X
Ask Yourself If New Information Might Help
Now when you do that, ask yourself, is there new information that might help?
And it doesn’t matter if that information is true or not. Is there something I could tell myself that would allow me to feel better about this?
Let’s say someone is an hour late for a meeting, reminding yourself they are never late. They must have a really good reason for this.
Or reminding yourself that they always follow through on the things that they do. So of course there’s a great reason that this is happening.
All of these things allow you to be in a better frame of mind.
Give Yourself The Same Advice You’d Give A Friend
If you can’t quite get there, then remember you can always tell yourself the same advice that you’d give to a child or a close friend because that’ll help you be a little more objective and look at it in a way that really helps you much more.
You can always tell yourself the same advice that you'd give to a child or a close friend. Share on X
Practice, Practice, Practice
The last rule, the last part of the process, practice, practice, practice.
So find situations that you can reframe for yourself every day and even in TV shows, even with your friends. I just wouldn’t suggest telling it to their face unless they’ve asked you.
But doing that on a regular basis will help you focus on what you do want, not what you don’t want.
That’s the first step to manifesting everything that you want in your life because the more of what you have to focus on being what you want it to be, then the more that you’ll get of that Share on X
And that’s the first step to manifesting everything that you want in your life because the more of what you have to focus on being what you want it to be, then the more that you’ll get of that.
So the more things that you’ll find that you love about your life, the more the good things you’re looking for are gonna start happening for you.
So give it a try and let me know what you think.
Here’s to your success.
