How Your Mindset Shift Needs Improvement

You hear about mindset a lot.

But here’s the thing—most people only understand it intellectually.

You watch videos, listen to podcasts, and read books about it.

You know the concepts.

Why a mindset shift is important.

You logically understand how it works.

But at the end of the day, there’s doubt lurking in your mind.

You get it. You want it.

But you don’t feel it.

That’s the key. You have to physically feel it—on a biochemical level.

Think about when you're skydiving, riding a rollercoaster, or—even playing a first-person video game.

That moment when you fall from a great height in the game, and it takes a second for your brain to register that vertigo feeling.

Because your real body isn’t falling, the effect is delayed. But if the fall is long enough, it hits.

Now, imagine using that moment while feeling that extreme emotion to rewire your mindset.

While you're in that heightened state—say affirmations out loud.

Project your voice with energy, with force, as if you’re sending your words as far as possible.

Because when your body feels something real, your mind starts to believe it.

It doesn't have to be a fall either, it could be a cold plunge, it could be during sparring, it could be during a loud concert.

And what's important is to say the affirmations out loud multiple times.

It's so obvious, we've seen this on TV since we were kids.

It maybe a cartoon but you seen people who do this every day are happier, have good relation with people, and have progress in their life.

There's another that is popular with the men especially people my age is Dragon Ball.

Although I never really watched Dragon Ball other than a few episodes here and there and I did watch the Broly movie, I know enough about it through osmosis.

You see when the characters are charging up they feel the energy.

I'm sure when you were a kid you did the same thing and felt the energy.

I see people still do this now… since the fandom last a lifetime.

For those who continued acting this way as adults, you notice they have that right mindset because they really self charge that emotion and action.

The older you get the harder it is to do things like this because in your mind it is childish.

I get that, I feel that too. It's crazy to think I'm almost 40.

Do it regardless, even if you have to do it while nobody is home.

The key thing is that you have to feel something and you have to project your voice while speaking your affirmation.

Just shouting loud won't do.

You really got to project your voice.

I don't want to go deep into how to do it but the quick explaination is imagine you're trying to get your voice to reach someone across a sports field.

Shouting loudly feels like you're making it loud for your self and the voice is going upwards and not forward.

I'm sure that would make sense to some people.

When you're not feeling your best and when you are starting, you will have this weird sensation when doing it.

At first, it's going to feel awkward. You'll wonder if it's working.

You might laugh at yourself. Or most likely cringe.

For me, I realized I only cringed if I hesitated—if I didn’t fully commit.

That weird sensation can be seen in one of two ways:

Either you’re just not used to it, or your mind is resisting change.

If you push through it, that’s when things start clicking.

Here is a example using a bridge.

Picture yourself on a foggy coast, staring across a restless stretch of water.

Somewhere out there, veiled in mist, is a land.

A version of you who’s fully locked into that powerful mindset.

You've heard of it, you've read about it, you heard other people talk about it.

It seems like a Atlantis, a myth invented to teach a philosophy, or it could be real.

One day you just decide, in a surge of energy take maybe a cold plunge or gone to a loud concert or went skydiving.

During it you project your affirmations. In which your voice cutting through the haze.

The fog will slowly start thinning, it still doesn't feel real but you keep doing it anyways.

Eventually you see a faint of land in the distance. Right at your feet, you start constructing a bridge.

Every affirmation you shout becomes a plank, every push past doubt a nail.

You hammer it together, step forward, and it wobbles.

Old habits and hesitation splinter the wood. Part of it collapses, crashing into the water below.

But those broken pieces sink into the mud, building a tougher base.

So, you keep at it. You drive in more planks with each vocal burst, reinforce it with every jolt of belief.

The bridge steadies, reaching further.

It might crack again, setbacks hit hard, but the debris fuses with the ground, making your earlier foundation unbreakable.

Then, out of nowhere, somebody might come with dynamite and destroy a huge chunk of it, something completely outside your control.

Life does that sometimes.

But even then, you don’t start from scratch. The rubble settles, strengthening what’s left.

You keep building, step by step, and you’ll know when you’ve reached the other side: that land won’t just be in view, it’ll be under your feet, solid and yours.

So, next time you’re in a moment that makes your heart race—whether it’s a cold shower, a loud song, or just psyching yourself up alone—project your voice.

Say what you want to become. Feel it in your bones. That bridge?

It’s already started. Every shout, every push past the cringe, adds another piece.

Keep building.

You’re not just chasing a mindset—you’re making it real.