25: Mindset Matters: 6 Keys to Unlocking Your Potential

Want to unlock your full potential? It all starts with your mindset! In this episode of Group X Appeal, Kimberly Spreen-Glick and Terry Shorter dive into the power of a growth mindset and how it can transform both your personal and professional life.

They break down the 6 key principles that separate a growth mindset from a fixed mindset, including:
✅ Beliefs about abilities and potential
✅ How you approach challenges and setbacks
✅ The value of effort, practice, and persistence
✅ The role of feedback in personal growth
✅ How to shift your perspective on success—yours and others’

This conversation is packed with practical strategies to help you embrace challenges, learn from failure, and continuously evolve. If you’re ready to break free from limiting beliefs and start thriving, this episode is for you!

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Transcript

What if the biggest thing holding you back was your own mindset? Ever wonder why some people thrive in the face of challenges while others throw in the towel? It all comes down to mindset. In this episode of GroupX Appeal, we are unlocking the power of a growth mindset, what it is, why it matters, and how shifting the way you think can completely transform your fitness, career, and life. Yeah, we'll break down the science behind it and give you simple strategies to rewire your brain for progress, resilience,

and unstoppable confidence. So if you are ready to ditch the limiting beliefs and start winning in every area of your life, let's go.

Kimberly/terry (01:10)
Welcome to Group X Appeal. My name is Kimberly Spreen Glick. I'm here with Terry Shorter. And today we're talking about mindset. Why? Because mindset matters. And specifically we're talking about a growth mindset. So first let's answer the question. What is a growth mindset? Well, Carol Dweck, she came up with the concept of the growth mindset through her research. And it is a psychological framework that emphasizes the belief

that intelligence, abilities, and talents can be developed through effort, learning, and perseverance. This idea contrasts with the idea of a fixed mindset, which is all about believing that your abilities are innate and static traits. A growth mindset fosters resilience, adaptability, and continuous self-improvement by focusing on learning and development. I think that's the way to go. A fixed mindset, on the other hand, limits potential because it causes you to avoid risks.

Resist change and fear failure. So what we're going to do is dive into the six aspects of Carol Dweck's work with regards to the growth mindset. And we'll kind of ping pong it because that's what we like to do. go back and forth. I'll just share with you what each aspect looks like within someone who has a fixed mindset versus someone who has a growth mindset. So maybe if you see yourself on the fixed mindset side of any of these aspects, you can see a path toward

living life with more of a growth mindset so you can enjoy the benefits of it. Yeah, it's a lot more fun. And so all six different aspects, we'll go through and you want me to start with beliefs and abilities? Yeah, go for it. So belief about your own personal abilities, you know, if someone had more of like a fixed mindset about their own belief about their abilities, they believe that whatever abilities that they currently have, they're innate, they're unchangeable. They're, they, they're not going to grow at all.

And they believe also that success perhaps depends on natural talent. I'm sure you've heard it before where someone says, oh, you know, they were born that way. That's why they're so good at have it or you don't. Right. Yeah. Exactly. That's more of that fixed mindset, which doesn't really serve you well because with a growth mindset, the other hand, intelligence, like Kimberly said earlier, talents, any skills that you have as well can truly be developed through effort and learning. Right.

Any example, mean any example as a musician, for example, I grew up learning how to play piano and guitar and how to sing. For example, I was not born that way. Really? No, it didn't happen. It didn't happen. So those abilities were definitely not innate. I didn't get it from mom and dad. They love music. Yes, but they didn't teach me how to how to play the instrument. I had to. It was a, you know, a process of practice, a process of, you know,

consistency. And so that's just one simple example. But I know an example in my own life is through my online business, through the Inspired Life University. I went into this thinking I have no idea how to build an online business. Everything I had ever done in my career had been in person and I'm a hugger. I like it that way. So bringing my work online to be able to touch and support and reach more people.

was exhilarating but also very scary. And the biggest thing that I felt initially stood in my way was the technology. I'm like, I'm not good at technology. And what Carol Dweck's work did for me, which I first actually dove into a little bit before I jumped online, it taught me to use the power of the word yet. And so as I began my journey in the online platform space, I wasn't good at technology. Yet. So that's what I had to learn to tell myself. It's like, I'm not good at this.

online tech yet. I'm not good at this building a website or figuring out Kajabi or whatever else software was in front of me yet. But I had to believe in my ability that I could learn. Absolutely. Yeah, we have that ability to learn anything if we want it bad enough, right? It of back to your reason why. Your reason why it has to be strong enough. I think we talked about that. I don't know. the power process. Yeah, the power process, right? Yeah.

That wasn't, that wasn't episode. Tell me the number. that is 15? I have no idea. might've been 17. It's a teen. It is definitely a teen. make sure. Bottom line is you have, you have the ability to look back and find out where the power process was. We believe in your growth mindset. So find it. Good luck. We believe in your ability to find it all by yourself.

So another aspect of your mindset is how you approach challenges. And so someone with a fixed mindset, they tend to avoid challenges because they see challenges as something that can present the opportunity for them to fail. And if they fail, then they appear inadequate. And if you have a fixed mindset, you don't want to feel like you have failed. Or if they take on the challenge and then they fail, they use it as a reason to judge themselves.

And even to create a story about who they are and what they're capable of, which then tracks back to the first aspect, which is belief in abilities. They use those challenges and any missteps as a reaffirmation that their abilities are limited. And so if we can flip that to a growth mindset and instead embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, opportunities to grow and to learn and to just continue to get better.

You know, like we did talk about in the power process, which was in an episode we did. You're already looking it up, so you're going to find it. But another thing that we talked about is the understanding that action is important as it creates clarity and confidence when you're on your journey. And every time you take action, the beauty is either it's a win, things go the way you wanted them to go, or it's a lesson. And whenever you get to learn a lesson from whatever action you took, well, that's a win too.

So when you find yourself faced with challenges, don't shy away. And then should you move forward with the challenge, take the action and it doesn't go necessarily the way that you had hoped it would. That's okay. If it does celebrate the win, if it doesn't see it as an opportunity for growth and learning, learn the lesson, because that is an aspect of a growth mindset. Absolutely. And so approaching those challenges, some people have, you know, a certain response to failure.

Right failure is really fear based. It's that you know, it's going to happen It is absolutely inevitable and the people who have that fixed mindset the way that they respond to failure they see failure as a reflection of personal limitations and which really leads to discouragement and even perhaps Maybe even inaction right where they don't want to take on on the challenge at all unfortunately, but someone with a

mindset, they see the failure opportunity as a chance to learn, right? Like, Kimberly just mentioned a learning opportunity, and a part of that growth process, every single successful person, you will not find a single successful person on this planet who has not failed at least one time, you know, what they do, if not many, many, many times. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, you know, the difference was, again, they have that

growth mindset, they weren't fearful of that chance to fail. They looked at that as an opportunity to get that win eventually, maybe not the first time out or the second time out, but eventually that win will come with consistency and just going after the challenge. What is that statement about Thomas Edison with the light bulb where he, I think it was that he tried the thousandth version of the light bulb and it didn't work. And his assistant said, so that's a thousand.

one that didn't work. And he's like, no, found the thousandth thousandth. The thousandth? Oh my gosh, I just lost it. But I found the thousandth one that wasn't the final answer. So I'm closer to the final. It was kind of the point is I'm closer to coming to the final.

light bulb that will eventually work. And so it's that growth mindset to believe you just gotta keep going. being afraid of that failure again, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. There's another fact that in baseball, I don't know if you like baseball or not, I used to love baseball as a kid growing up. I thought I was gonna be a pro baseball player but then moved on to other sports. But in baseball, when you go up to bat,

All you need to do, if you went up to bat 10 times in baseball and professional baseball and you just hit it three times out of 10, you are a hall of famer. You would be considered a hall of famer. Three times. So you failed seven times out of the 10 and you are in the hall of fame. So it's just all about perspective, having that growth mindset and not being afraid to jump in the batter's box and swing. You have to swing in order to get a hit. I love that. That's awesome.

Nice. So another aspect of mindset is how you approach effort and practice because someone with a fixed mindset kind of to the initial first point, there's this belief that it's talent is innate that either you're born with it or you're not. And so there's no point in practicing. There's no point in effort. It's either you have it or you don't. And if someone is born naturally talented, there's no reason to practice. They've already been given the talent.

a growth mindset kind of spins that on its heels because if you have a growth mindset, you value the effort, you value and see it as inspired action and as essential for improvement and mastery. I think about someone like a Mozart. Anyone would agree that Mozart was a gifted pianist. He was born gifted with music and yet he practiced hours upon hours every day to master his craft.

So if you find something that you're naturally good at, you have this kind of natural, maybe God given talent, you would say, don't just rest on that. Shift to a growth mindset and continue to hone and master whatever that talent is, whatever your craft is, whatever it is that you're passionate about. Because not only can we continue to get better no matter what, but it's a lot of fun to hone.

passion in life. To spend time and effort on what we love. Yeah and to be able to revel when you accomplish whatever it is that you're after. That is an amazing feeling. You for me personally when I turned 50 years old one of my goals leading up to my 50th birthday was to learn how to do a handstand. You know this entire...

10 decades or five decades, not 10, five decades. Slow down. Yeah, slow down. Feeling like it's, but, you know, five decades in this life. And I, I was thinking, gosh, it'd be really cool to learn how to do a handstand. Right. And I thought, okay, what will it take? You know? And so I thought, well, I need a coach. Right. And I didn't know anybody around me. So I just looked online. I found an app and I followed this app and all I had to do is follow these exercises.

10 minutes a day with the coach in this app. And literally within three months, within 90 days, just following 10 minutes, 10 minutes a day, 10 minutes every single day, I learned how to do handstands from different entry points, scissors, straddles, tucks, know, pikes. And so learn how to do this handstand, but it wasn't easy. It took practice, effort, consistency, but not a lot. Like I said, 10 minutes a day, you know, didn't miss a single day.

And by the time I was able to get upright and really land that handstand for a pretty long period of time, it felt amazing. Oh my gosh, it actually worked. So wasn't throwing in the towel right out of the gate and saying, oh, I'm too old or coming up with excuses or I don't have time for this or thinking that. I can't just try once and do it. So I'm not gonna bother. So.

truly as possible, but you gotta put in the effort. gotta put in the It's interesting you bring up that example because I've come across over the years in our industry, a lot of natural athletes who, when they try something and it doesn't click for them right away, they do throw in the towel right away because they're so used to being good at things right away because they're strong and they're fit and they're flexible and everything. They have good coordination. then yoga is an example. We have athletes come into yoga and if it doesn't click for them right away, often they'll get discouraged.

And we just really want to encourage you to take that same mindset that Terry had. Maybe he didn't throw his legs up in the air and wave them like you just don't care. No, I was waving them like I cared. But maybe he get up in a handstand right away, but he practiced and he worked on it. Crashing and burning over and over someone athletic like him could have said the first time, OK, the handstand didn't work for me. Forget it. I'll just do something else. And don't get me wrong.

Did I think that? I was tempted, absolutely. There were days where I was like, I'm just not getting this. But I thought, you know what? 10 minutes, I can commit 10 minutes a day, every single day. And I'm gonna get this no matter what. But there were days of struggle and challenges and frustration for sure. So our fifth part of the framework is feedback. So, a fixed mindset kind of,

person, hopefully again, that's not you, resists feedback there. It's part of like failure. It of goes back to the failure thing, that fear of failure. And they may perhaps view it as getting criticized, whether it's constructive or not and an attack on not just their abilities, but even perhaps who they are, you know, so they, they take it pretty hard. Whereas someone who approaches it more with a growth mindset,

they really do welcome constructive feedback because again, it is an opportunity for growth, for expansion, for learning more about themselves and understanding how they can get better at whatever it is that they're doing or they have interest in. I do believe I noticed a theme here. Yeah. The growth mindset is all about always being open to and seeking opportunities to grow and all these different aspects of the framework. How about that? How about that? So how are you with feedback?

I value feedback so much. Yeah. I don't think I've ever always been. Yeah. was, I was thinking about receptive of feedback. I don't think I've ever had a time in my life when I did not value feedback. I don't think I've ever, I think that's one aspect of the growth mindset that's been with me for quite some time. I can't say all the aspects have been there, but that one, you know, I've definitely

I've appreciated when if it's constructive, you know, if someone has something constructive, because I've always had a desire to, to learn and to get better at what I do. And feedback is probably one of the best possible ways to do that. Absolutely. Especially, you know, when you're working with a mentor, with a coach, someone who's been there and done that so much easier to, to receive and to just be receptive to that, to that feedback for sure. A little more difficult from somebody who's a, you know, a peer.

Yeah, can be it is you know But you have to kind of let the ego go because it's nice to get a different perspective from someone who's looking from the outside in Yeah, definitely and feedback is important. Yeah feedback leads to growth all day long So we have one more aspect within this framework and that is how do you view other successes? So we talked about how you know someone with a fixed versus growth mindset might view their own failures, but now

outside of yourself, look at others. When others are doing well, when others are succeeding, how does that make you feel? Because someone with a fixed mindset would feel potentially threatened or even jealous of another person's success. And then they go down the rabbit hole of kind of the negative comparisons. And I've worked with a lot of coaches over the years who have struggled because they look around, they play the comparison game. It's one of the voices in the head that I've coined comparison Connie.

Comparison Connie starts talking and they look around and they think, well, there's so much further ahead than I am or, you know, they're already doing what I want to do so there's no room left for me. It's like this belief that there's this set pie. And if you don't currently have a piece of that pie or someone else gets a piece of the pie, it's less for you. That's the fixed mindset. Lack mentality. Yeah, exactly. The lack mentality. But if we could make a shift from if you ever find yourself feeling that way to instead find inspiration.

in others' accomplishments. When you see other people succeed, see that as proof that it's possible. Let them inspire you to continue to get better. And I honestly think in our world, these are opportunities to collaborate too. When you see other people doing great things, A, applaud them. Celebrate that. Be inspired by them and maybe even connect and collaborate with them as a way to celebrate the work that they do.

So shift away from the comparison and move toward collaboration and celebrating what others do because if others have done it That means it's possible. The doors are wide open. Yeah, it's possible. That means you can do it too Yeah, and I think in today's world Kimberly, you know when you're viewing other people's success It's so much. It's so much more prevalent in available to see because of social media. So it's the highlight reel that I really seeing right and so

That is a perfect example of what not to compare yourself to, you know, and, feel jealous of or envious of, you know, when you're looking at, you know, what's happening on social media, when people are posting their stuff, be happy for them, but just know that you're on your own journey. When everyone has a B roll. Yeah. Most people only lose the highlights. We all have a B roll. Absolutely. Absolutely. So self included. have a B roll.

I have a B roll a mile long. C roll. A zero D roll. I got my Z roll. Yeah, we got all kinds of roll. We're rolling. Rolling in the rolls. So really, as you have, I would imagine gathered, adopting a growth mindset can truly and significantly enhance personal and professional growth. While a fixed mindset does just the opposite, it'll really lead to stagnation.

Right. Absolutely. It's great way to summarize it. So, what else, anything else that you can think of? You know, just a reminder that, you know, the benefits of the growth mindset, it fosters resilience, adaptability, continuous self-improvement. It allows you to focus on learning, development and growth, becoming more of who you're here to be. So continue to focus on that as opposed to limiting yourself from that growth.

by having a fixed mindset. So that's what we want to encourage you to do. Yeah. Abundance, right? Abundance. Abundance versus lack. Yeah. Yeah. Lack bed. Abundance is good. So that is it. And I appreciate you sharing, um, Carol Dweck's book called Mindset. Kimberly shared it with me and literally just got it right before we recorded this episode. Um,

through audible, cannot wait to listen to it when I'm training or on my walks. And it'll add way more value and hopefully I can continue to expand. And get more smarter. Get way smarter, way smarter. And the thing to, one of the key points of Carol Dweck's work, which is in her book, is the recognition that the growth mindset itself is not something that you're either born with or not.

There may be a certain set point that we're born with with regards to many things, this being one of them, and a certain way we're conditioned when we're brought up, but you can choose, you can always choose to make shifts from a more fixed mindset to a growth mindset because it's all perspective and a perspective is choice. So I think you'll enjoy it. Thank you. can't wait to get into it. Yeah. Cannot wait.

So that wraps us for this is episode 25. This is our silver silver edition. I know I should have wore a silver shirt. yeah. Silver zippers. Silver zippers. go with that. This is our silver edition of Group X Appeal. It's another milestone and we appreciate you for tuning in for being consistent with these episodes. And even if you haven't, you can always go back and reference some of the episodes that we've recorded in the past.

Absolutely, play catch up. Listen while you're working, playing, I don't know, working out, whatever you're driving. And hopefully again, you find some value in any or all of these. Yeah, we definitely, appreciate your support. We appreciate you taking this message. And by all means, if you think someone can benefit from this message or any of the messages from our various episodes, we love the idea of you sharing it with those that you care about. could also benefit so that we can continue to get the word out. And of course,

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He's free. no, you may not have Terry to come do work on your house. I'm sorry. I apologize. I take it back. But if you have questions, you'd like us to answer topics to cover. We'd love to hear from you. So either comment on YouTube, send us a message, a DM as they say on social media, any way you'd like to reach us. We'd love, love, love to hear from you. Absolutely. So that is a wrap for mindset matters today.

make it a fantastic day, make it an outstanding day, make it a great day. And why Kimberly? Because it is a fantastic, outstanding, great day to have. Take care. Peace out. Much love. Bye.