INTRODUCTION: MINDSET IS NOT JUST FOR ATHLETES, ACADEMICS, AND CAVE-DWELLING MYSTICS

Understand Your Mindset and You’ll Understand Your Results

I did not come into this world with an “I can do anything” mindset. Far from it. At 48 years old, I found myself unfulfilled emotionally, spiritually, and financially—in spite of being in the third year of a marriage to the love of my life. I had been working my tail off to be successful, but felt as though I was driving with one foot jammed on the accelerator and the other squarely on the brakes. I was exerting a massive amount of energy each day, but going nowhere fast. Every day I felt like Sisyphus climbing a mountain—only to be rolled back down to the bottom and admonished for daring to climb the ...

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