How to create a successful mindset | Maxi Knust | TEDxHHL

have you ever heard of the same what's your thoughts for they become words what's your words for they become actions what's your actions for they become habits what's your habits for they become character what's your character for it will become your destiny this same shows that everything starts with our thoughts the roots of our destiny aren't our thoughts today I want to show you how important it is to carefully watch your thoughts and how you can create a successful mindset our thoughts determine how our life looks like you think that sounds crazy well I want

you to imagine the situation you want to take the bus to go to work to university and usually need five minutes three a bus station but today you have only two minutes left so though it seems impossible to catch the bus you decide to run and just give it a try so you step outside the door and while running you have two options now you can either think oh damn I'm Way too late I won't make it I will miss the bus and beat you late at work one shitty day all you have another option

to think well I'll still have two minutes left I can make it I would catch the bus and be on time at work today is a good day as I'm a person that is most of the time 15 minutes late I know the situation for my whole life where I run and try to catch the bus so some month before I started my own business and preneur I had a mind changing experience again I try to catch a bus but this time I really thought positively I really thought I can make it and guess what

I caught the bus so you might call it like but I experienced many times afterwards and many other situations where I had this kind of thinking that I deeply believed in it that I can make it and that I put all action in it to make it happen somehow things turn out much better for me and increase my life quality so what do you usually think in this kind of situation for example this bus situation most of the times we tend to think the negative way if you're truly honest with ourselves but why are we

telling to think so negative about the outcome of our efforts I assume we are afraid we are afraid in case we don't reach our goals and we would be disappointed or we are afraid of what other people may think of us if we don't reach our goals so I want to show you that you have in every kind of situation two possibilities to think either negative or positive so if you look at this bus situation what do you have to lose the next time if you're in this kind of situation just give it a try

and turn around this negative I can't make it I can't do it into a positive I will do it I will make it thought and if you want to train your mind oh I forgot this if you think this you have to repeat it and not only do it once you have to make positive thinking a habit so if you want to train your mind you can easily write every evening down what was the positive thing of your day and what was a negative thing of your day and you probably see that most of the

times the positive moment outweighs the negative and so you can train to focus more on the positive things let me give you another example out of my life that shows how much positive thoughts and our images in our mind can help us to make our dreams come true so when I started being interested in entrepreneurship I read a book by one of the most successful founders which became my inspiration Richard Branson he's the front of Virgin Airlines which records and so on and it became somehow a goal for me to meet him one day actually

I had this idea of meeting him for some coffee on Necker Island and just talking about some business and philosophic stuff and as crazy as this thought might seem for other people I always deeply believed in it and I always had this image in my mind of how the situation would look like well I have to disappoint you but until now I haven't been on a go island and I didn't meet Richard Branson there but another thing happened to me two weeks ago I was invited to bits and pretzels as journalists it's a palace invented

Munich and Richard Branson also had a keynote there so you can imagine how excited I was to at least see him from foreign stage but remember I told you I'm always 15 minutes late well as much as I was determined to really be on time some how things turn out totally differently my train had to take a detour as there was a car accident and I miss my other train so I got late and I couldn't get in the conference room anymore because it was already fully filled and the staff didn't let me in but

my mindset had changed within the last year from complaining about this or being frustrated about this and just be negative to take action and finding a solution to get there in somehow so I was talking to the staff and telling them I have a press ticket please let me in but still the room was fully filled and they didn't let people inside anymore but nothing happened they told me they were to Prescott be a press conference afterwards which I didn't know about before so I couldn't believe my life because I had this press ticket and

I could get in so into this little room and saved the best seat in a front row I met some other journalists before I was talking to them and offering a seat next to me and then Richard Branson came in and I couldn't believe it he just said an arm length away from me so I had the opportunity to ask him a question but I wasn't picked to ask so then the moment rose up where it was said now it's the last question so I was like this hoping that it will pick me and the

guys who said besides me show to me and were like picker picker so richard branson's attention came to my person and i had the chance to ask him a question which i didn't imagine at all in the morning when I got up so people might call me a lucky girl but the thing is what no one sees I always believed in this deeply and I always thought this would happen one day and in the end my thoughts became a reality the idea of gods become things it's a law of attraction everything that is coming to

your life you are attracting this into your life it's being attracted by the images you hold in your mind it's what you are thinking whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting this and always remember that and if you're interested in this topic I would recommend you the movie the secret but only by sitting at home and hoping and wishing for a better life nothing will ever change you have to take action so the first step is to think about what you truly want what you truly want not your parents not your friends

not society or anyone else with some expectations about your life so if you know what you deeply thrive for just try to imagine how the situation would look like and how you will feel in the situation and then if you walk around but open ears and eyes opportunities will show up to you and then you have to take action and not let it pass say yes to the opportunities that show up in your life and usually we don't feel prepared enough for it I'm not ready for it and I wasn't prepared at all for asking

Richard Branson the simple question I'm not a real journalist I studied Business Administration and it just happened that I found the online magazine fembra so I had two choices in the situation I could see all the negative things and I could focus on my fears there was an opportunity showing up and I could just let it pass but I took action and I focused on being courageous and that's the difference between successful and successful successful people to take action but how can we create a successful mindset well to train our brain is quite easy we

can easily replace our all distract of the leaf sets through a healthy and successful mindset I have written down on a little piece of paper that is taped on my mirror some mantras I repeat to myself every day it sounds so easy I know but I realized within like some weeks a month almost automatically my perception has changed and just to give you some inspiration maybe for your new mantras to create a positive mindset I will give you some examples from my piece of paper so of course on the first its I see the positive

things in every situation I determine about my success I focus on the things that I can change and not other things that I can't change and an open and grateful for the changes in my life so make sure if you write down your mantra sentence so the things that are important to you that you write positively and don't use the word no because our brains can't process the red no just to give you a short example if I tell you don't think about a red card what happens you probably have the red car in your

mind so I have a final exercise for you today I want you all to get up from a seats please get up move perfect okay guys imagine there is a bell ringing in 250 hives so it's kind of like here so somewhere above your hat and I want you to jump and drink this imaginary Bell in 250 which is kind of you so 1 2 3 jump perfect not sit down please haha now imagine the Bell is in 3 meters ok I want you to jump again for a 3 meter and during the spell one

two three and jump perfect thank you you can sit down so you might already see my point in that as higher you set your goals the higher you will jump and the more effort you will invest and the more you will do to reach your goals so if you think about your goals always aim high and dream big be open and willing to learn lessons along the road and always keep in mind that our thoughts determine our success in life thank you very much [Applause] [Music]