Your Motivational Gen Z and Millennial Expert-Your host: Dr. Jason Wiggins
I focus on the motivational aspects with a high emphasize on motivating Gen Z and Millennials (GEN X will also find great value) and the employers who employ them for continuous improvement. This podcast focuses on motivating Gen Z and Millennials to empower to overcome obstacles within our everyday lived experiences. I have a passion for educating, speaking and guiding Gen Z and Millennials to achieve great things. Gen Z and Millennials have experienced so much in a short amount of time as the world continue to move faster. Self-Awareness and belief in our abilities provide a strong foundation for health, happiness and prosperity in a world that offers continuous challenges.
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Life is hard, but when we challenge others or ourselves to be successful, then the world demonstrates the value of those who put in the effort. My hope is that each listener will find value and then share that value with others. I am a change leader that is passionate about life transformations and taking our passion and motivation to the next level. YOU CAN DO IT! Remembers Dreams without Goals are just Dreams.
Your Motivational Gen Z and Millennial Expert-Your host: Dr. Jason Wiggins
Mindset: Why Some People Get More Done (And You Can Too) Episode 171
Your mindset fundamentally determines what you can achieve in life. Are you approaching each day with a growth mindset that embraces challenges, or a stagnant mindset that sees your abilities as unchangeable? This powerful episode reveals why some people accomplish so much more despite having the same 24 hours we all get.
Dr. Jason Wiggins shares his personal journey from academic struggles (scoring second-lowest in his high school on the SAT) to eventually earning a PhD by refusing to accept limitations. He identifies six critical indicators of a growth mindset: maintaining a positive outlook toward challenges, choosing growth over stagnation, harnessing self-belief, managing stress effectively, practicing gratitude, and committing to continuous learning.
The podcast explores why discipline "ultimately saves you" through having a strong reason why, and how to overcome procrastination - the common roadblock to productivity. This episode offers practical strategies anyone can implement: reframing challenges as opportunities, focusing on effort rather than just results, learning from mistakes, replacing limiting self-talk with growth-oriented language, seeking constructive feedback, celebrating small wins, and surrounding yourself with other growth-minded people.
Whether you're looking to advance professionally, improve relationships, or simply become the best version of yourself, this episode provides the mindset framework to help you get there. The growth mindset isn't just about achieving more—it's about becoming more and helping those around you do the same. Subscribe, share with friends, and join our global community of listeners committed to personal growth and positive thinking!
Hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen Z and Millennial Expert Podcast. I am your host, my name is Dr Jason Wiggins and it is a pleasure to be here today. I hope everybody is having a wonderful weekend and is ready to start the week on a high note. Let's go ahead and get our heads right as we jump into today's topic. The topic is how your thinking shapes your success. Now, some of us were born, or I should say, or developed, with a glass half full or glass half empty mentality, and I was talking with my wife the other day and I wasn't born with either a glass half full or a glass half empty. I've always been a pretty much glass three-fourths full type of individual, and it goes back from my early youth, because I don't understand any other way on how to want to improve your life, on how to want to be better and to develop that growth mindset of knowing and understanding that we can be so much more. And early on I realized I want to help, I want to inspire, I want to be part of somebody's lives where I can make a difference. And one of the things we're going to talk about today is the six ways that we can continue to develop a growth mindset and these are the powers behind it. And then we're going to talk about, briefly, effective strategies on developing that growth mindset. Now, there's two types of mindsets. There's one where you have a growth mindset, meaning you're looking to overcome challenges, you're resilient, you're doing all these things that are going to transfer your skills to the next level. But there's the flip side. There's a stagnant mindset. The stagnant mindset is where you you're unchangeable, you're unwilling, you believe that you are the way you are because that's how you were born and you can't grow anymore. You can either grow or you cannot grow. Those are the two direct mindsets that you can achieve. It's the old kind of the old saying the flight or fight method. Are you going to run away from the problem or are you going to stay there and fight until you conquer it? And that's where a lot of that discipline comes in.
Speaker 1:When I was younger, back in my high school days, I didn't understand the meaning of it back then, but I won a most inspirational person award for our football team. Our football team was almost runners up in state. We ended up taking third place in state with the opportunity to play in the championship game. However, we ended up not quite making it there, but the great thing about it was is we learned so many valuable lessons, and I like to think that the lessons we learned helped me become who I am today. But back then that most inspirational award didn't have the significance of meaning that it does 30 years later. Why? Because I realized I was that person that believed you can continue to overcome no matter what challenge, no matter what obstacle that is put in front of you, and that's the same mentality I try to share day in, day out, if it's from doing a 60 second TikTok video to being a host of this podcast.
Speaker 1:This podcast has never been about any monetary value to me. It's always about how can I potentially impact somebody's life. So it's those skills and intelligence that we can develop. That's part of the growth mindset, and that growth mindset comes from discipline. Discipline is what ultimately saves you. Discipline, discipline is what ultimately saves you. Why does it save you? Because it's the strong reason why. The strong reason why? Why do you do something? Why is it important?
Speaker 1:Who was that individual or circumstance in your life that made you change? Help yourself understand what the reason why is. It can be it can be a death in the family. It could be some strong words, somebody told you. It could be so many different things, but the correlation is it made a huge impact on your life and that's how you have that intrinsic motivation, that's how you feel motivated.
Speaker 1:So have you ever, ever wondered how others are so successful and get so much done in their life? Think about this. We all have 24 hours in a day. Nobody has more than 24 hours. 24 hours in a day, nobody has more than 24 hours. You wonder sometimes if that person has 30 hours in a day because they get so much done. I mean, we have to sleep eight hours a day. We have to work eight to 10 hours a day. We have to eat, we have to take care of our family. We have certain tasks that have to get done, and that is on top of maybe going to school for full time or having a second job, whatever it may be. It accumulates to 24 hours a day. Therefore, whatever you do, that's the same amount of time that you have that everybody else has. And you wonder how come people get more stuff done in a day than we do? Because it's not because they're wired differently. It's because they have the discipline. They have a strong reason why. And then they have that self-control strength.
Speaker 1:Mindset is how you react and how you perceive a situation. So if you're a doer, you look at that as a challenge, not so much an obstacle. You mystify and modify and shift your mindset so you can improve your overall health. The doers don't just get things done. They get things done with a growth mindset, through eating good, exercising, having that mental capacity, that intellectually and other reasons like skills can be developed. These are things that we all have control. So doers, those who succeed, those who have a growth mindset, believe that they can overcome, they can move forward and they can continue to find ways to improve their life.
Speaker 1:So we talked about today. There are six identifiers of a growth mindset. One number one. It's an easy one a positive outlook towards challenges and failures. You embrace the challenge, you reinvent yourself. I mean some people. Maybe they have a positive attitude as a natural reaction. That's me. Three-fourths glass half full. That's my fortunate, I guess talent is.
Speaker 1:I've always looked at things in a positive manner. I believe. No matter what gets in front of me, I'm going to figure out a way to conquer it. I'm going to figure out a way to be successful and that is my, I guess, what I feel I'm good at. I look at the challenges. I get excited.
Speaker 1:Number two growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. That's what we talked about earlier. We talked about being stagnated, we talked about being unchangeable. If you're willing to make the changes in your life and you're willing to move forward, then you have a growth mindset. But if you have a mindset that says you know what, this is all I'm good at, this is the best I'm ever going to be, I'm stagnated, I'm unchangeable and there's nothing that's going to change that, then that is a fixed mindset.
Speaker 1:Number three, one of my favorites the power of self-belief. Remember, when things are getting bad, when things are at their worst, somebody else has it worse than you. And the interesting thing about what? The power of self-belief? I've heard stories where individuals have terminal cancer. They don't know how long they're going to live. But guess what? The mind is so powerful that the reason why they don't know is they never ask the questions about how long are they going to live. Their spouses might know, but they don't. So in their mind, they don't have a deadline in their life. They are thinking optimistically, they are running. They were doing all the things the doctor told them to do, but they don't know when their time is going to end, because they have a positive attitude.
Speaker 1:I like to go back to when I was in college. I just obtained my bachelor's degree and I really wanted to go and get my MBA, obtain my MBA, but at the time I could not get into grad school because my GMAT score wasn't what it needed to be. And I studied, I tried, I took it a couple of times. I could not fail. But guess what? I could have gave up. I could have said you know what? I'm not going to grad school, it's just not the cards for me. That's where that would be stagnated and that would be unchangeable. But what happened? I found a different route. I found a different university that had different requirements. It was accredited, they were a great school, but they didn't make the GMAT the end, all be all.
Speaker 1:And fortunately I was able to not only obtain an MBA, but I went on to obtain a PhD. Why? Because I didn't let the barriers and obstacles and challenges get in my way. Truth be told, when I was a senior in high school, I took an SAT and the SAT came back with the second lowest score in school. I'm not kidding. Back then I think I got a 610. And that 610 basically gave me 500 for writing my name on the test. I was not very intellectually inclined, I didn't have the skill set, so I had to start from scratch. Was I a knucklehead? Yes, I probably was. But once I got past that challenge of being a knucklehead I figured out how I could overcome.
Speaker 1:So now we go to number four. After we talk about the power of self-belief. You have to believe, you have to understand that intrinsic motivation, that internal drive to succeed, the mindset, the resilience to be able to overcome anything that comes your way and to not have the common roadblock to productivity. And do you know what that common roadblock to productivity is? It is the bad ugly word. You know what that bad ugly word is? It's procrastination. It's what gets in the way of you being self-disciplined and reaching your overall goals.
Speaker 1:So number four is stress, management and mindset. What does that mean, management and mindset? What does that mean? It means you regulate your body, you regulate your mind to understand that stress management is not a bad thing. It goes back to earlier what we talked about the fight or flight method. Stress management is about fighting and running towards that burning building versus the flight method, which means you run away from the burning building. You are up to the challenge. You're there to figure out a way to get it done. You don't let procrastination get in your way. Therefore, if you are better equipped within your mind to get things done, then you're going to have a good way of getting around stress management.
Speaker 1:Number five this is also one of my favorites positive thinking and gratitude. Being thankful for what you have. Don't dwell on what you don't have, what you're not good at, what skill set you don't have, all of these things that you wish you had. Well, guess what? We're not perfect, but if we go out there and we develop skills, we challenge ourself intellectually and we're grateful for what we have, we have gratitude. Then that's half the battle. And the final and again it's another important one. If you haven't noticed, these are all my favorites Continuous learning, to continue to learn, to be better, continue to learn to get where we want to go in life, and that is how the mindset is so strong.
Speaker 1:We talked about a positive outlook, embracing challenges, reinventing yourself. Number two we talked about growth mindset versus fixed mindset. Are you going to go for it or are you going to be stagnated and unchangeable? And then the power of self-belief, that's that intrinsic motivation, that's the mindset and resilience not for going into procrastination and those common roadblocks to productivity Stress management mindset. You could do it, fight or flight. Number five gratitude, positive thinking. And number six always continuing to learn, keeping that glass half full and understanding the strong reason of why. And self-controlled strength. That is what discipline and why discipline saves you. So let's talk about the effective strategies for developing a growth mindset. Well, reframe those challenges as opportunities. Simple, reframe challenges as opportunities.
Speaker 1:Number two focus on effort, not just results. It goes back to a child my son same thing. He gets frustrated when he tries something and it doesn't succeed. So therefore, you got to focus on the effort, focus on how hard you tried to hit the ball versus, maybe, the outcome, maybe you didn't hit the ball, and just make sure that you look at the efforts and not the results. Number three learn from your mistakes. You know, if you don't learn from your mistakes, then that's half the battle. If you try something that doesn't work, then try it a different way, and if it doesn't work, then keep trying, but learn from your mistakes. Here's another good one. I really like this one. Replace I'm not good at this with I can improve, because we're not good at everything we want to do, but we have the opportunity to improve on anything we want to do.
Speaker 1:Number five seek constructive feedback. Don't get a group of your friends that all love you and praise you and say how great you are and don't provide you with the real feedback, the real substance. How can I get better? How can I improve? How can I be the better version of myself to myself, my family and all those around me? Get good, honest, constructive feedback.
Speaker 1:Number seven track your progress and small wins. It's okay, you're not going to win the jackpot every time, but take the little wins you have and ensure that you feel good about what you did, that you feel good about what you did. And number seven surround yourself with growth-minded individuals. Find people who also believe the way you believe about fulfilling success, ensuring that you have people that want you to succeed. You want them to succeed and that's how you inspire others to get better. That's why you have group events, you have corporate events, you have all of these type of events where you get people together. Why do you get people together? So they can succeed together. You can't do it all yourself. It's important to get the people and help around, to surround yourself with good people. That will help you get where you want to go. So if you really want to wonder how people are so successful and get so much done, take these tips on growth mindset and then take these tips about strategies for developing them and hone your skills.
Speaker 1:Demonstrate your intelligence. Demonstrate your intellectual acumen, that you're willing to take the steps needed to be successful. Let your boss know that you want more. You want more responsibilities. You want more training. You want to continue to get better. And the same thing with your spouse. Let them know that you want to get better. You want to be a better husband. You want to be a better wife. Let your son and daughter know that you want to be a better parent. You want to do things that will help them develop to be successful young men and women as they grow up.
Speaker 1:This is where the growth mindset is all about, not just intellectual. It's about your exercising intellectual. It's about your exercising. It's about your mental capabilities, your physical capabilities. It's about taking that total package together and improving when things don't always seem better. If you improve, things will get better. Keep the growth mindset. Don't ever get into that fixed mindset that says this is all I can do. I can't be any better. Today, I hope you receive some good information that's going to help you start the week on a fresh note. It's going to help you grow as the weeks go by. So I want to thank everybody for your continued listenership. We have listeners all over the world and nothing excites me more than to see the great comments and constructive feedback that I get. So continue to save the podcast, continue to ensure you subscribe, like whatever it may be, if it's on YouTube or on your favorite podcast platform and please share with your family and friends. So I want to thank everybody. I appreciate you. Take care, bye, bye and we'll see you next time.
