Is It Mindset or Is It Action? - Josh Patrick interviews Ana Melikian, Ph.D.

Josh Patrick is a dear friend with deep experience as a business consultant and is passionate about helping business owners create extraordinary value with their companies and their lives. Josh is also the author of two easy-to-read and powerful books: Sustainable: A Fable About Creating a Personally and Economically Sustainable Business and The Sale Ready Company: What it Takes to Create a Business Someone Would Want to Own, Even If You Have No Intention of Selling. Today, in an interview previously aired on Josh’s podcast, we ask the question: which comes first, action or mindset? We define mindset and discuss the difference between worldview and mindset. We discuss the glasses analogy and talk about Carol Dweck’s distinction between growth mindset and fixed mindset. We share how to tell when to improve your strengths and when to improve your weaknesses, and we discuss the importance of a capacity to learn. Josh notes the need to be honest with yourself when assessing your strengths and weaknesses, and we talk about what it means to live your values while running your business. “If ‘the world sucks and I suck’ is my worldview, it’s actions before worldview. If I can’t get you to take an action and fake it till you make it, you’re never going to move out of that world.” - Josh Patrick This Week on The Mindset Zone: Which comes first: action or mindset? Defining mindset Worldview vs mindset Growth mindset vs fixed mindset When to focus on your strengths and when to work on improving your weaknesses Transitioning from the beginning stages of your business to the more advanced stages Living your values while running your business Resources Mentioned: The Cracking the Cash Flow Code Podcast Sustainable: A Fable About Creating a Personally and Economically Sustainable Business by Josh Patrick The Sale Ready Company: What it Takes to Create a Business Someone Would Want to Own, Even If You Have No Intention of Selling by Josh Patrick Carol Dweck on growth mindset and fixed mindset Dave Logan’s four stages of where people are Expand what's possible Subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | GooglePlay Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more people like you, and don’t forget to connect with me: mindset.zone I anamelikian.com I LinkedIn I Facebook