If you have a great mindset and no tools or knowledge on running a business, life is a little challenging and although you can create success by outsourcing all the things you have no idea how to do, it is difficult to monitor and manage the process if you have no understanding of what others are doing for you.

If you have all the tools and knowledge to run a business and your mindset is not in the right place, you do not believe in yourself enough, you are not inspired and motivated, you find yourself procrastinating or scared to take risks and massive action, then you have a very hard and challenging time ahead and creating success is incredibly difficult.

To me mindset is absolutely vital and the tools and knowledge too ……… they dovetail perfectly together and yet so many people I meet have one of the other missing and many people think they are two completely separate things that do not need to be paired for success.

I would love to know your views on this …..

A positive, focused mindset is what will keep a person going through the not so smooth times and to do so will become increasingly innovative. The tools a person possesses over time should expand as his focus intensifies and their personal thirst for success looms large.Reading+action+failure+ success = knowledge Habits + upbringing + personal values = mindset

@Jon Behrens —— if you fall into the trap of not having a positive mindset then there could be several reasons for this and dependng on the reasons depends on the action to take to get back on track.

not having a positive mindset can be through:

fear – if so find ways to walk through those fearslack of belief in yourself – work out why you have that lack and release itfollowing the wrong goals and pathways – if you have no core desire to achieve what you are doing then you are on an uphill struggle – change what you are doingfocussing on the negatives or lack – this is a major one that many many people fall into – what you focus on is what you bring towards you so if you are focussing on negatives – stop and look at what you already have – what is good and what you have achieved already and that will start to bring more into your life too and get your back on track for the future

There’s more but I wont turn this into a book  

@caroldodsley good pep talk, Carol

Oh and @caroldodsley I agree. Fear has held me back in my business a lot. Learning to manage it really really has helped.

@Stephanie – absolutely it is crucial — I so so agree with your point on only getting so far without the right mindset – it is also something that all the most successful people and entrepreneurs have but often never tell anyone about because they have it intrinsically embedded in their mind and it is part of their daily automation processes so they often do not consider that other people do not have it…..

I also find that a lot of people will pay for and invest their time and money in learning how to press buttons for their business but forget to invest in their mindset, align their values and beliefs for success and deal with the things holding them back, which is a real shame as it can often be mindset that stops them in their tracks just before a big breakthrough in their business.

Fab that you have learnt how to manage your fears – that is awesome