SUNDAY REWIND: How can you nurture a day-one mindset?

Day-one psychology asks you to generate an interrupt to your mindset continually, or regularly, in order for you to perform at your best.

The idea of a day-one mindset was popularised by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who famously signs off his annual shareholder letter with “It remains day 1”.

Michael Morris explains that a day-one mindset asks a question: What are you capable of doing today, given all the lessons you’ve learned and skills you’ve developed; all the resilience and appropriate emotional states you’ve built up; and the network you’ve established, as you face down today’s challenges and opportunities? He says: “State or mindset determines our ability to access our own resources. If you analysed and compared your performance on your best day versus your worst day, there’s a big chance that your mindset had a lot to do with it.”

At the start of the year, we tend to go through resolution or goal-setting exercises, even if it’s only in our own heads, he adds, and this acts as a catalyst or an interrupt to our current mindset.

The trick is to introduce this interrupt into our everyday, and Michael lists a range of tactics that he finds helpful to do this. They are:

• Attend a training course or conference
• Take a holiday
• Meditate
• Read a book (or consume content of some form)
• Have an offsite
• Goal setting
• Personal triggers

For more details on Michael’s tactics, read his original post  How can you nurture a day-one mindset?