The Empowerment Mindset by Calvin Helin

Author:Calvin Helin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Premier Digital Publishing

MAKING SUSTAINED EFFORTS

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results,

and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

—JAMES ALLEN

To adopt an empowerment mindset and realize our goals beyond the WSC syndrome, we must make sustained efforts, while managing expectations so we remain flexible enough to adapt to a range of possible results. Hard work is an inescapable requirement needed to attain any accomplishment. And the rewards we receive are always directly related to the efforts we make.

In contrast to the current tendency in our culture to downplay the virtue and necessity of hard work to succeed, earlier generations well understood the value of it. Hard work means focusing on the task at hand, getting it done as quickly as possible, and sacrificing time we might have spent doing something more immediately enjoyable for a worthy long-term goal. It allows us to be self-reliant, self-responsible, escape the economic dependency trap, validate our self-worth, and satisfy the wish we have to be valued and appreciated by our families, friends, and communities.

In considering how we want to expend our efforts, we should realize that our rewards come not only in the form of money or material possessions but also in the satisfaction achieved in accomplishing something (even if we fail) or in increasing our knowledge, self-confidence, and sense of self-worth. For example, I will always remember how good it made me feel as a boy to be told by my mom that I had done a good job with household chores, or the satisfaction I experienced when after six months of digging a basement under our house my dad rewarded me with a little red bicycle.

Even though hard work is usually rewarded not only financially but socially and psychologically, managing our expectations of specific results helps us mentally prepare for a variety of potential outcomes and sustain our empowerment mindset for future efforts. Despite the fact that people automatically build expectations around desired outcomes, we can manage our expectations by either trying to remain unattached to them or cultivating a flexible attitude toward them by thinking through a variety of potential outcomes in advance so we are prepared to adapt to a range of possible results.

ACQUIRING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon.

To change your circumstances

you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

—ADLIN SINCLAIR

Successful people possess skills and strategies anyone can adopt, but to do so requires an eagerness to learn, hard work, dedication, and a willingness to gain knowledge from early failures. With such skills and strategies, people are like the proverbial falling cat that always lands on its feet. One of the most fundamental skills learned by all successful people is to take total responsibility for their lives, which includes: not complaining, giving excuses, and blaming; adapting responses to get different outcomes; and adopting better habits.

Some other key empowerment skills are the following:

Ability to prioritize. We cannot do everything, so to achieve success we must

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