Welcome to the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Now, here's Dave with an intentional mindset minute.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson with another intentional mindset

minute where I share quick hits from my latest book's intentional mindset and

elevate your excellence. We post them on Fridays to help you think right, do right, get better,

and become more. Here's the topic, three steps to changing a mindset. When you're trying

to encourage someone who's not particularly good at something or not meeting a standard, and you want them to keep trying, keep these three steps in mind.

Explain number one, the change is possible.

Because the brain is like a muscle that continually makes new connections

and can strengthen its different aspects to elevate understanding and performance

and areas where it may be undeveloped or underdeveloped, you can

change in those areas as you develop that part of the brain. Two, show the steps someone can take

to improve those brain connections, listening to and acting on feedback, additional study,

practice, repetition to improve muscle memory, and then reframing how they view failure,

not as fatal, but as a form of feedback that prepares them for something better the next time

they try.

Thirdly, explain the compounding effect of small decisions, changes, and disciplines, and

how that can compound in a big way over time, not overnight,

but over time. In making those new brain connections stronger, even permanent, especially

as the repetition of diligent effort creates that muscle memory that takes the tension out of performance

and makes it more effortless and automatic.