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Manage your mindset

Manage your mindset

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Manage your mindset

- Wouldn't it be nice if you walked away from every high-stakes communication moment saying I did everything I could to be successful? You gave yourself a pat on the back, and you moved on to your next activity. When high-stakes moments go well, we feel amazing, and we carry that energy and that amazing feeling into the next conversation. But when these moments go poorly, we beat ourselves up for days. If affects our confidence into the next conversation. So we have to remember, in the famous words of Buddha, "The mind is everything. What you think, you become." It's extremely important to manage your mindset. To set yourself up for success in high-stakes moments. The first way you can do this is by telling yourself a story of success. Studies show that positive self-talk improves performance. So tell yourself what you're good at, and why you'll do well. Be specific about where you've been successful before. For example, when I'm skiing down technical terrain, I continually say to…

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