Abraham Bates
5 min readDec 11, 2022

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Perspective Changes Everything

From Envato Element by lzf

It’s Sunday morning. You are sitting on the couch, dreading going to work on Monday. You think about a different life, a life where you are free, a life that is fulfilling. You long for work that will bring you the life you want of a true pursuit and financial freedom.

It’s Wednesday afternoon. You are waiting for the deal to go through, the job promotion, and the numbers for your firm’s quarterly report. So much time is wasted thinking about things we cannot control, and yet we try to control them. Anxiously we wait and hope. We dream.

It’s Friday morning. Bad news has come. You did not get the deal. You did not get the new job or promotion. Your company did not make the quarterly numbers and you fear your job is now on the line. You anticipate the weekend, hoping to make it through so that you can start again on Monday. You start to slide into a darker place. The doom spiral begins.

Mindset

Mindset /ˈmīn(d)ˌset/ is the established set of attitudes held by someone; the outlook, philosophy, or values of a person; frame of mind, attitude, and disposition. (combo definition from dictionary.com and wikipedia.com)

Creating your view of the world is the work you do inside your being. Broken yet resilient people have made it through incredibly difficult circumstances with a strong mindset. Why is this? Mindset…

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Abraham Bates
Abraham Bates

Written by Abraham Bates

Passionate about helping people find their lifework

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