Lesson: 594962296
Date: 25/09/2022 22:58:43
Exercise:
Link to the article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/choose-your-words-carefully-to-transform-your-mindset-and/432183
Choose Your Words Carefully to Transform Your Mindset (and Your Success)
All too often, our words lay the foundation for our success or our failure in life. Managing our language deliberately and with intention can have dramatic impacts on our lives.
Activity 1
Transform Your Mindset
Matching Exercise
1. to lay ...
2. to make the consious...
3. to manage ...
4. to hold ...
5. to act out ...
6. to run an ...
7. to feel a great ...
8. to be at the ...
A. ... of obligation or force
B. ... our language
C. ... sense of purpose
D. ... mercy of life
E. ... somebody accountable
F. ..... the foundation
G. ... errand
H. ... choice
Activity 2
Transform Your Mindset
Matching Exercise
1. to have limiting ...
2. to patch up ...
3. to meet ...
4. to make ...
5. to take ...
6. to remove ...
7. to hold ...
8. to accept ...
A. .... deadlines
B. ... the time to eat healthily
C. .... reality
D. ... the illusion
E. ... beliefs about something
F. .... somebody back
G. ... broken relationships
H. ... accoubtability for ourselves and our decisions
Activity 3
Transform Your Mindset
Matching Exercise
1. to live with an ...
2. to have zero ...
3. to ask ...
4. to ask permission ...
5. to respect one's ...
6. to expose our ...
7. to advise something ...
8. to have a major ....
A. ... autonomy and free will
B. ... to advise
C. ... on the basis of our own paradigms
D. .... exploratory questions
E. ... abundance mindset
F. ... impact on our mindset
G. ... egos and narcissistic sides
H. ... interest in something
Vocabulary
Transform Your Mindset
* to glean -
to gather information or material bit by bit
e.g. He has a collection of antique tools gleaned from flea markets and garage sales.
e.g. At present we are gleaning information from all sources.
* dumbfounded -
so shocked that you cannot speak
e.g. We were dumbfounded at what we saw.
e.g. I was dumbfounded to hear that she resigned.
* accountable -
responsible for the effects of your actions and willing to explain and be criticised for them.
e.g. He knew he would be held accountable for any flaws in the programming.
e.g. Our board will hold me accountable if anything goes wrong.
e.g. But you have to be accountable for your actions.
* downright -
utter, complete; extremely, completely, totally, to the fullest degree
e.g. It's downright disgusting!
e.g. It's very difficult, if not downright impossible.
e.g. The working conditions are unhealthy, if not downright dangerous.
* exploratory -
done in order to discover more about something; exploring, examining
e.g. We're having an exploratory meeting nect week to talk about merging the two companies.
e.g. He underwent exploratory surgery.
e.g. The principal aim of this exploratory research is to gain a better understanding of franchising and the franchising decision.
* scarcity -
a lack of something; insufficiency or shortness of supply; deficiency, shortage
e.g. There is a scarcity of skilled workers in the building sector.
e.g. Nobody should place the whole blame on scarcity of resources; that would be too complacent.
* abundance -
a large amount of something
e.g. The city has an abundance of fine resraurants.
e.g. Optimists point out that there is an abundance of good news.
e.g. This team has talent in abundance.
* scarcity mindset -
is a belief that wealth is limited and that one can run out or never have enough.
A scarcity mindset is when you are obssessed with a lack of something - usually time or money; a pervasive feeling of not having enough whether that be time, money, connection
* abundance mindset -
means to see the limitless potential in life
- the idea or worldview that there are enough resources and successes for all to share.