E44 The Success Habit of Open-Mindedness – How to Develop a Growth Mindset
- S2E44
- 13:00
- January 13th 2025
Ready to upgrade your business habits and mindset in the new year? Discover the key difference between growth and fixed mindsets and how simple shifts can unlock powerful transformation in your work and life.
Success in business isn't just about strategy or grit—it's about being open minded. Why? Because open minded habits help you navigate challenges, learn from mistakes, and spark innovation. In today's episode, Donna and Londina dive deep into practical ways to cultivate growth, resilience, and persistence so you can build a business (and life) that keeps evolving.
What You Need to Know
- Open mindedness is rooted in having a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. Growth-minded people see challenges and mistakes as steps to improvement, while fixed-minded thinking halts progress.
- Success relies on daily practices that train your brain, develop grit, and put effort before natural talent.
- Reflection—both at the start and end of your day—serves as "bookends" to visualize, plan, and review your actions and emotions.
- Grit is different from grinding; it's about inner determination and persistence, not just pushing through exhaustion.
- You can't outperform your self-image—real transformation requires internal change and celebrating progress, not demanding perfection.
What You Need to Do
- Disassociate improvement from failure: See room for growth as opportunity, not evidence of mistakes.
- Build in regular opportunities for reflection, morning and evening, to visualize and review your day.
- Celebrate effort before talent, and highlight the connection between learning, mindset, and "training" your brain.
- Cultivate grit and persistence, especially when faced with business challenges.
- Use empowering language, like "not yet," to remind yourself that learning is a process.
- Make new goals for each milestone, take risks in the company of trusted peers, and take ownership of your attitude every day.
Your Next Step
Connect and share how these habits are shaping your journey—because your growth is only just beginning. Celebrate your progress, map out your next goal, and remember: mastery is built day by day. Tune in next week for an episode focused on persistence and overcoming procrastination with actionable insights from "Think and Grow Rich."
Want more insights on developing a growth mindset and building success habits?
👉 Connect with Londina Cruz at Londina.com for resilience coaching and daily motivation.
👉 Work with Donna Kunde at DonnaKunde.com to shift your mindset and grow your business with confidence.
👉 📥 Download this season’s resources to deepen your learning and apply these success habits to your life and business.
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:57 Exploring Growth Mindset
02:02 Practical Tips for Success
04:44 The Power of Grit and Persistence
07:29 Setting and Achieving Goals
11:06 Conclusion and Next Steps
Building Success Habits
“The more tranquil a person becomes, the greater is their success, their influence, their power for good.” James Allen
"Building Success Habits" is a podcast hosted by Donna Kunde (Business Coach) and Londina Cruz (Life Strategist). The show is all about sharing practical tips, strategies, and insights for building success habits in all areas of life.
This show was originally produced as hour-long radio content, later adapted into 4-episode Signature Season themes for podcast listeners.
The podcast explores a variety of success habits, including goal-setting, resilience, focus, and productivity. Each episode provides insights into how these habits can be developed and maintained, along with tips for staying motivated and on track.
In addition to success habits, the show covers personal development and mindset topics, such as overcoming limiting beliefs and cultivating a growth mindset. Donna and Londina share their own experiences and challenges in these areas, providing listeners with relatable examples and actionable advice.
Whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, or simply someone who wants to achieve more success in your personal and professional life, "Building Success Habits" offers inspiration and tools to help you achieve your goals and live a more fulfilling life.
Join Donna and Londina on this journey of self-discovery and growth, and learn how to build the success habits that will transform your life.
"When we begin to see the world from the inside out, life will happen through us instead of to us."
Donna Kunde is one of IBGR's founders and started her career in radio at WNTW on it's Sales 2020 Show. In her role as EVP Supply Management she is responsible for day-to-day station operations and the quality of programming - both show topics and OnAir Talent.
She is an internationally recognized Business Coach and Trainer bringing 20+ years’ experience in military leadership. Donna has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 25 years owning a range of businesses experiencing the unique challenges solopreneurs face with small business growth.
In addition to her entrepreneurial background, Donna brings 35 years of academic and applied cognitive and behavioral science experience to the IBGR Network. Her specialty is helping organizations navigate through change, challenge and tragedy. The combination of her intensive study of the mind, plus practical applications in human potential, Donna provides a unique perspective on leadership, personal growth, sales, communication, and team building.
A high point of Donna's training career happened when she accompanied Dr. John C. Maxwell and his team on a country transformation mission. At the request of the Costa Rican government, the Maxwell team successfully trained 15,000 Round Table facilitators in three days, resulting in a 2% transformation of that nation and projected to reach another 60,000 Costa Ricans the following week. Her trademark energetic communication style and teaching skills have earned her a reputation as a highly effective speaker and respected facilitator.
Londina Cruz is an International Trainer, Executive Coach, and Keynote Speaker with the John Maxwell Team and a Strategic Coach with Anthony Robbins. Londina is a part of Global Transformation with the John Maxwell Foundation, training thousands of leaders in Paraguay and Costa Rica to help transform the values and culture of these nations.
She has spent more than 25 years studying, coaching and consulting in personal mastery and human performance techniques. These techniques include emotional and social intelligence trainings that elevate individuals, leaders and their organizations to excel well beyond current standards – offering a dynamic competitive advantage.
Londina has taken a situation that would devastate most individuals, being hit by a drunk driver, and has turned it into her life force. In this accident, Londina sustained a traumatic head injury, broken back and broken neck. The doctors gave her little hope of a normal life. She has now turned this challenge into an extraordinary life of empowering others to turn their fears into freedom and reach their potential.
Mastering her limiting beliefs and overcoming all that doctors had told her, Londina has thrived physically as well.
She has become a Triathlete (competing in a Half-Ironman and medaling in numerous other triathlons), a two-time marathon runner (Nike Women’s in San Francisco and the Marine Corps in Washington), and a cyclist.
She has released 100 lbs. by taking control of her thoughts instead of allowing thoughts to control her.
She knows what it takes to take you and your team from where you are to where you want to be.
As a Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker, I can offer you workshops, seminars, keynote speaking, and coaching, aiding your personal and professional growth through study and practical application of John’s proven leadership methods. Working together, I will move you and/or your team or organization in the desired direction to reach your goals.
Contact me. I am looking forward to assisting you on your journey to becoming a success in your life and/or business.