Week 5 Journal Reflecting on Your Mindset
Week 5 Journal
Reflecting on Your Mindset (prompt 2)
Frances Simmons Today I’m sitting here feeling mentally and emotionally bruised. My mind is just on overload, I can barely put two thoughts together. I need to get up and start my day, but I’m so emotionally drained I don’t want to move. Tears begin to roll down my cheek as I think about how I have failed at life. I should have finished school when I had a chance. I’m in a job that I enjoy, but I could be further in life if I would have just finished school. I’m too old to go back to school now, is it possible? Fear and anxiety creeps up, and now the thought of failing are present in my mind. I need to dismiss these thoughts, because I don’t want my failures to become my children’s failures. The mental and emotional bruises will fade away quicker if I change my fixed mindset. I began to wipe the tears from my cheeks and I realized that my mindset was fixed on failure. I convinced myself that anything that I set out to do was going to end in failure. I have to stop letting the fear of failure rule my life. It’s up to me to change what I don’t like about my life, no one can do it for me. I have control over my life. So, I decided at that moment I was going to make a change. I’m going back to school to finish what I started, no matter how long it takes. I have to accept that failure is a part of life; I have to be willing to fail to learn how to succeed.
Reflecting on Your Mindset (prompt 2)
Frances Simmons Today I’m sitting here feeling mentally and emotionally bruised. My mind is just on overload, I can barely put two thoughts together. I need to get up and start my day, but I’m so emotionally drained I don’t want to move. Tears begin to roll down my cheek as I think about how I have failed at life. I should have finished school when I had a chance. I’m in a job that I enjoy, but I could be further in life if I would have just finished school. I’m too old to go back to school now, is it possible? Fear and anxiety creeps up, and now the thought of failing are present in my mind. I need to dismiss these thoughts, because I don’t want my failures to become my children’s failures. The mental and emotional bruises will fade away quicker if I change my fixed mindset. I began to wipe the tears from my cheeks and I realized that my mindset was fixed on failure. I convinced myself that anything that I set out to do was going to end in failure. I have to stop letting the fear of failure rule my life. It’s up to me to change what I don’t like about my life, no one can do it for me. I have control over my life. So, I decided at that moment I was going to make a change. I’m going back to school to finish what I started, no matter how long it takes. I have to accept that failure is a part of life; I have to be willing to fail to learn how to succeed.