Reframing with Outward Mindset

Suffering is a certainty of life, regardless of your position or title. Problems, challenges, unfairness, mistreatment and impediments to progress characterise much of our work and personal experience. What’s more, people sometimes act with malevolent intent. With an outward mindset, we do not blame others for our challenges. We may acknowledge misbehaviour, mistreatment or injustice, but we do not wallow in our victimhood in the same cyclical, self-excusing, self-justifying ways that we do with an inward mindset. An outward mindset allows us to see challenges as opportunities to learn about our own “inward mindset red flags” and develop our ability to turn outward when everything seems to be inviting us inward.

We will eventually and inevitably experience challenges and injustices in one way or another. We can choose to develop an inward mindset of self-tyranny or leverage the challenge to become outward-looking in order to deal with challenges. That is your choice. After all, an outward mindset begins with you.