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I believe I can do hard things.
Need a new tile backsplash? I can figure that out. Want to sculpt your local watershed over 3 middle school classes and 80 kiddos? Totally doable. Become a National Park Service Ranger and run a mounted patrol division? Sign me up. Become an artist when all you’ve done before is draw stick figures? Watch me soar. Run an advertising and marketing division? Awesome sauce.
Having a growth mindset just means that you believe you can do hard things. Will you be good at those things at first? Absolutely not. Can you improve over time? Heck yes. Will you get discouraged to the point of tears? Yup, just part of the growth process. Learn to believe in your own awesome.
Now I want to talk limits.
Believing you can do can do something difficult is powerful, but wisdom is knowing if you should do that difficult thing or not. I’ve got a condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. It causes a lot of really effed up problems for me. Daily, I have to check with my body on what it can handle that day. This often effects my mental game as well. I get frustrated. I feel weak. I disassociate from my body. If I try to push through the fatigue or pain, it just makes it worse. Knowing my limits and working inside of them is an amazing tool. Find your limits and make peace with them.
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This week’s guest author is tiler, teacher, ranger, artist and marketer (!!!) Teresa Roberts.
Grow slowly
Jeff