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My year, so far, has been a year of successes and challenges. Have you ever thought about how life can be filled with so much change and variety. I think that\u2019s the beauty of the life we have been gifted to live. It is both the same and yet it\u2019s about change. How we navigate this life is up to us. What we make things mean is up to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing our series on mindset shifts from a Christian perspective, today\u2019s topic is the mindset: I can\u2019t do this yet vs. I can\u2019t do this\u201d My first thought as I was thinking about this topic is that saying: \u201cIf you believe you can or you believe you can\u2019t, your right!\u201d I can see some of you now thinking: \u201cOh Monette, that\u2019s positive thinking babel.\u201d I\u2019m going to challenge you here. I see this all the time on the tennis court with my friends. I have some friends who are so athletically gifted, and they tell themselves things like I can\u2019t serve today. And you want to know something, they prove themselves right. They continue to serve terribly. I\u2019m guilty of this too, when I make a few bad shots and I start questioning myself: \u201cDo you even know how to hit a forehand?\u201d I continue to hit bad forehands. It\u2019s the worst thing you can do in tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about you? What is an area in your life where you berate yourself? Is it in the area of food? You told yourself you were going to eat clean and healthy today, then someone offered you a donut and you ate it, only to tell yourself after that how fat you are and you\u2019re never going to lose weight. We all have our areas. As we talk about this today, I want you to be thinking about something you really want. Maybe you\u2019re an entrepreneur and there are new things you need to learn to take your business to the next level, and you keep telling yourself I can\u2019t do this ______ (you fill in the blank). This could even apply to your spiritual life, maybe it\u2019s that quiet time you keep promising yourself you are going to start, and you push that snooze alarm on your phone. To later tell yourself: \u201cI can\u2019t make myself get up earlier.\u201d  You see where I\u2019m going with this? Mindset matters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mindset shift can be a game changer for you. I encourage you to reflect: Where do you catch your own \u201cI can\u2019t\u201d area. Our brain listens to what we tell it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s address the powerful difference between saying \u201cI can\u2019t\u201d and \u201cI can\u2019t yet.\u201d You see, \u201cI can\u2019t\u201d comes from what\u2019s called a fixed mindset-believing our abilities are set in stone and there\u2019s just no way forward. But when we add that little word \u201cyet,\u201d suddenly we\u2019re stepping into a growth mindset. \u201cI can\u2019t do this yet\u201d means we believe we can learn, improve, and grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about Peter in the Bible. When Jesus called him to walk on water, Peter started to sink because he doubted himself. And over time as we read in the Bible, Peter didn\u2019t stay stuck in \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d He kept following, learning, and trusting. Eventually he became a bold leader. So today, whatever challenge you\u2019re facing, remember: \u201cI can\u2019t yet\u201d means the story isn\u2019t over. There\u2019s room for growth, hope, and new possibilities! In the small things and in the big things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To illustrate this point, here\u2019s a little example of what happened to me recently. I had an assignment which told me to send an email to myself in the future. Sounds simple enough however I got caught up in resistance, thinking I don\u2019t know how to do that, I can\u2019t, so for a week or so the email I had written sat in my notes. Then I thought Monette you don\u2019t know how to do this yet. I became resourceful and searched it on you-tube. It was so simple I figured it out and did it in a few minutes. This whole concept of this little word yet opens our thinking. Takes us from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical Steps to Shift Your Mindset<\/h3>\n\n\n\n