Sean Buttner, a high-performance coach, argues that believing you can figure anything out through consistent effort is the single mindset that drives progress. He combines two beliefs: messy work over time builds mastery, and setbacks teach rather than fail. He illustrates with stories from 15 years in tech and business, then offers concrete practices like scheduling weekly skill practice and tracking before-and-after results.
Sam. Sa. Foreign. Hey, good morning, everyone. Welcome to start your day. Great. Start your day with the coach. I am your certified high performance coach, Sean Butner. And it's the Wednesday show. So today we're going to be talking about the number one mindset to help you feel progress in your life. Because isn't it true that the moments where we feel most alive, most connected, most zestful, most happy and joyful are the ones where we feel progress, where we feel like we're growing? So how do you get there? Right, and there's all these habits. You can go online. There's tons of different things that people try, people strive for and people do, but people usually get stuck on not having the right mindset. So before jump into that, please do the social media thing and share this with a couple of friends. Comment below if you have any questions. We'll answer that as soon as possible. So just thought to throw that out there. So what is the number one mindset that you need for personal growth, to grow a business, to grow your career, to grow a relationship, to improve your health consistently over the long term. And that belief is that you can, if you are consistent, right? It's consistency, it's a disciplined mindset of it's going to be messy and that's okay, right? So that's part of it is giving yourself a little bit of space to learn, to be curious, to figure things out. But the other half of it is that, hey, like, if I spend enough time with this, if I keep at it long enough, I'll figure it out, right? It's something that I've done repeatedly in my career in tech and as a coach here, always consistently learning. And the times where my career really accelerated, I think is when I was tossed in a new team with, you know, needing to learn new, new programming language or a time when I started a business and needed to figure out how to market and speak on camera. You know, all these things that are important skills, you know, it's what helped me go through business school and transition into a tech career to begin with. Like, it's the maybe naive, maybe slightly arrogant belief in my ability to learn stuff. But, you know, that's what I learned in grad school, that's what I learned in high school. That's what I learned in my undergrad work, is that, you know, with the right amount of time, maybe a little bit of caffeine, you can figure anything out. And, you know, so when you don't have that mindset, what does it look like? It looks like you hit a hurdle and you give up on the first hiccup, right? And we've all been there. And I'm not saying that I've always nailed this mindset myself, but just to illustrate, like there are times when you're going to fail, right? And so, you know, to kind of, the main belief is that you can figure anything out. The second belief is that it's not a failure, it's learning, you know, so, so that's really helped me in, you know, my 15 years in tech and in my business too. So why is that important? Because when you can get out of the ego of trying to be perfect, every land it every time on the first try, that's when you get to have fun with it, right? That's when you get to play, you get to experiment, you get to see what works, see what works for you, you know, because, you know, there's also this kind of cultural belief that there's a one size fit all process for people where, you know, when you grow up, you're going to go to college, you're going to get a good job. I never said will be great. And that's not necessarily the case. You can get saddled with debt. You can, there's so many different ways that could go wrong. And then you can feel bad about yourself. And you know, I felt that way right out of school for myself again because I had $70,000 worth of debt and I wasn't able to pay my, all my bills, you know, so we all have those struggles. But you know, again it comes back to what can I do, you know, more importantly, what do I need to do to figure this out? And so that's opened the door for me in so many different ways. I hope it can open the door for you. So how can you cultivate this idea that you can figure things out? Right? Part of it is doing new things, it's learning new skills, it's being very intentional about that. So if you're like, oh, I always wanted to learn how to bake cakes, like get it scheduled, bake a cake every week for the next three months and you know, take a picture of the first cake, take a picture of the last cake after three months and see how much you've learned, you've grown, you've figured it out. And I think you'll find a sense of satisfaction, a sense of, you know, just enjoyment that, that is kind of missing in an instant gratification type world that we kind of live in. So hope that serves you guys if you are struggling with, you know, figuring out how to move forward on a particular situation at work in a relationship with your health. Below this video or linked in my bio is a free video training called the six Habits of High Performing Introverts which gives you six habits to help break you through wherever you're at. And more importantly, at the bottom of that page is a there's an application for you to fill out if you wanted an hour of perform personal one on one time with me. So people love it. There's usually a couple of breakthroughs on that call. I love doing this work. I love having those calls and people, like I said, leave that call very motivated and very clear on what to do next because we come up with a personalized plan for you. So check it out down there. Again, do the social media thing. Share this with a couple folks who think might need to hear this today and thanks guys. We'll catch you later.
