Mindset Guide: How To Master Your Mind and Unlock Your True Potential

This page is dedicated to mind mastery. Our mindset has everything to do with how our lives turn out. From the way we tackle obstacles to when we procrastinate.

Firstly, understanding our mindset and how it affects us is the foundation in mind mastery. Secondly, we build a growth mindset and remove the last fixtures of a fixed mindset.

If we can do that, then we can unlock your true potential.

What is a mindset?

Simply put, it is a way of thinking. This way of thinking can be either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.

A fixed mindset is a way of thinking that believes things can’t be changed or can’t be learned. That you are inherently bad at something and that other people were just born with talent.

An example of a fixed mindset is, I’m too old to learn how to learn a new language.

While a growth mindset is a way of thinking that welcomes challenges. People with a growth mindset believe that with hard work and time almost anything can be learned and even mastered.

Articles That Will Shift Your Mindset

7 Things You Can Do Today to Take Control of Your Life: Things that we subconsciously believe are holding us back. The life that you dream about. The one where you have freedom of time, and surrounded with people you enjoy being and working with. This is how you do it.
The Power of the Human Mind: Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?: To overcome our limiting beliefs, we have to understand just how powerful the human mind is. It’s allowed us to break the 4 minute mile, and put people into space.
The Power of the Truth: The Secret to Take Control of Your Life: Can the truth set us free? This article will make you feel uncomfortable. However, all progress will be uncomfortable. That’s just our mind and body growing stronger and faster to meet new challenges. Embrace it.
Desirable Difficulty: Resilience and What the Hard Times Can Teach Us: When we look at something difficult, we tend to shy away from it. A big company sales presentation, a new leadership position in a brand new division, or running a 135 mile ultramarathon doesn’t seem like any normal person’s first idea of “fun”. But, can it make us superhuman?

How to Live and Train Like A Modern Day Warrior, Don’t be the Gardener

It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. How to be a modern day warrior.
Change Your Life By Changing the Way You Think, Thinking Outside the Box

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. What if by changing the way we think – a paradigm shift –…
10 Questions to Help Recenter Your Life

Here are 10 questions to ask yourself to recenter your life and find direction. Are you living the way you want or is there more?
The Global Citizen, Ultimate Lifestyle Hack, Location Independence

What is a global citizen and is it the ultimate lifestyle hack? Taking location independence to a whole other level.
On Death: Why You Should Think of Death More Often

Reasons why you should think about death more often. Why death is a powerful motivator, near death experiences, and regrets of the dying.
Yes, You Can Change the World: A Matter of Perspective

What if changing the world is just a matter of perspective. What if seemingly small and insignificant actions matter more than we think?
How Long Term Thinking Will Change Your Life

The benefits of long term thinking will change your life. Why delayed gratification outweighs short term gains.
Change is Hard

Change is hard. Behind the success is the change required to make it happen. 5 things preventing you from making lasting change.
The Modern Man: What Does it Mean to Be a Man in the 21st Century

The modern man is many things, from firefighters, lawyers, dancers, to teachers. However, there is a common thread amongst all men, and that is an innate pull towards the more…
The Art of Being Busy: Dark Side of Productivity

When asked how have you been, do you respond with, ‘been busy, but good’. Is being busy a source of pride? Being busy is normal, but when is it too…
Hedonic Treadmill Theory: Why Am I So Unhappy

Do you ever feel like you’re chasing happiness? As if it were this thing that you can catch and never let go of? The Hedonic Treadmill Theory says that you…
How To Take Control of Your Life: Beginner’s Guide to Lifestyle Design

This is the beginner’s guide on how to take control of your life. Learning practical ways to live the life you deserve is important. None of us deserve to be…
7 Things You Can Do Today to Take Control of Your Life

Do you have total control of your life? Or does your boss, your parents, and other people’s expectations dictate your life? If you’re sick and tired of letting other people’s…
The Power of the Human Mind: Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?

The power of the human mind has allowed a man to run a marathon in subzero weather shirtless and put monkeys on the moon. Here’s what you need to know.
The Power Of Truth: The Secret to Taking Control of Your Life

Why is it that I can’t get myself to the gym even though I said I was? Why is it that I hate my job, but won’t find a better…
Desirable Difficulty: Resilience And What the Hard Times Can Teach Us

Desirable difficulty isn’t something we can always control. Sometimes it’s happenchance, other times we choose it; but one thing that is prevalent, is that they undoubtedly produce more resilient folks.
10 Life Lessons I Learned in the U.S. Marine Corps

Fulfilling my childhood dream of becoming a real life ninja warrior had its ups and downs. Not knowing what I truly signed up for, I would later come to be…
Lies We Tell Ourselves About Money

Oddly enough, our parents never really talked about money or the managing of the finances either. Money was really a taboo subject, but it was brought out by the actions…
Read This Before You Die

Through an interesting study that Cornell University, Thomas Gilovich, Ph.D. conducted, he discovered, after speaking with those lying on their deathbeds, that they didn’t regret the things that they did,…
How To Be More Grateful

Sometimes it’s really hard to take a step back from the bullshit and realize how much we actually take for granted. Take a step back and count your many blessings,…
I Have a Big Ego

Your ego is your worst enemy. It always wants to be right, at the expense of a relationship. It always wants to prove they’re better, by showing off. It never…
Why I Take Cold Showers

I instantly gasped for air. I breathed heavily. My body felt the shock to all its senses. My body and mind was telling me to get the hell out of…

My own personal goal is a lifelong pursuit of mind mastery. My hope is that you will join me on this pursuit.

I truly believe that we have just used less than 10% of our true potential. But, with practice and application of learned knowledge we unlock our true potential. And maybe even change the world.

As always, thank you for reading.

Warren,

P.S. If you find my work useful and know of someone that can benefit from this, I urge you to share it. We are all in this together.