Habit Building: The Power of Mindset
TLDR; How shifting your mindset can improve your habits, fresh sounds to get you grooving, how digital transformations happen, and the top shows to check out this fall.
Dear Reader,
To continue our discussion about the four ways to build great habits (Systems, Mindset, Identification, and Implementation), let’s jump into Mindset! 🧠
Mindset
Upgrade your mindset and linguistic skills so you can align incentives, and negotiate scenarios that help create more value for everyone involved.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Once you have systems set up for accountability, the next battle is to develop a mindset necessary to foster habit building and upgrades.
The best way to do this?
Reading.
Why? If you can’t say what you intend to do, change, or become, you’ll have a hard time turning it into a reality. You must wage a constant battle to upgrade your language so you can better articulate your vision, actions, and plans.
Like clockwork, when I read and spend time in the presence of someone who is wise… I leave their words feeling refreshed and brimming with a mindset that is conducive to creating good works. The practice of reading gives us new language and new words which expand our definitions of what is possible. When you can better articulate what you want, you exponentially increase the likelihood that you’ll be able to create it.
Take the idea of upgrading your habits. I found that it wasn’t until I read The Power of Habit that I became armed with the language and concepts to make upgrading my habits easier.
Reading TPOH led me to Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.
After I read Spark, I realized that my brain would work better if I did more cardio to cause my body and brain to release more Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor. So I upgraded my workout to include more cardio. After this upgrade, my mind and physiology were feeling great, which led me to read Travels by Michael Chrichton.
After you have the systems in place, upgrading your mindset through reading is a powerful catalyst to help identify the exact habits you need to upgrade.
Stay tuned tomorrow as we hit a double and share the two final pieces of this series: Identification and Implementation. 🤗
Hot Off the Press 🔥
New on Mission Daily. On this special episode of Mission Daily, Ian sits down with IT and Philanthropy professionals working to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and the NGO world. Tech has the ability to impact lives like never before and these non-profits are finding new ways to keep up. Hear from:
- Jane Meseck, Senior Director for Microsoft Philanthropies
- Bryan Breckenridge, Executive Director of Box.org
- Erin Baudo Felter, Executive Director of Okta for Good
- Peggy Duvette, Senior Director of Social Impact at Oracle NetSuite
More in the world of IT. In business, you have to change your ways or risk becoming extinct. At least, that’s what Tony DeLima says. As the Head of Digital Transformation and Global CTO for NEORIS, Tony has had a front-row seat as all kinds of industries have gone through vital changes. Listen in as Tony shares how digital transformations happen and why they are so important.
Mission News 🗞
This section features the best of what the team at The Mission HQ is reading, watching, listening to, playing, doing, and meditating on. 🤗
Reading 📚
🤓 The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski. Inspiring a blockbuster video game and a new TV series (see below), this series is one that has lived as a staple of epic fantasy since the first book was published in 1994.
“For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.
Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world — for good, or for evil.
As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt’s responsibility to protect them all — and the Witcher never accepts defeat.”
Watching 🎬
📺 The Witcher, Silicon Valley, Letterkenny… here are the shows joining or returning to their respective streaming services this fall.
🤡 Ready or not.. IT is here. IT Chapter Two hit the theaters today! We’ve got our tickets bought and are ready to go! We’ll let you know how IT is. 😉
Listening 🎶
🎧 Today we’ve got an assortment of bands for your listening pleasure, all of which we’ve recently had the opportunity to see on stage! Give ’em a listen.
Fruit & Flowers — An American rock band from New York City featuring mad good guitar, vocals, and drums.
Back Alley Sound — An up and coming, 5-piece alternative hip-hop outfit with funky rhythms and fresh rhymes.
The Moat Rats — If rock + blues + jazz + pop had a child, it would be The Moat Rats. Just listen and enjoy.
Ripe — From Boston, ready to make you dance and groove. 🕺
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