How to Level Up Your Mindset

We all know that mindset is essential to determining performance. In fact, you may even know that you need to try to improve your mindset continually.

But for many people, improving one’s mindset can be challenging, not because they don’t want to improve their mindset but mainly because they don’t know how to improve it.

If you want to have personal growth, you have to know how to level up your mindset. Let’s talk about 7 steps to level up your mindset.



The first step can be somewhat easy for people but can also be very challenging in many areas.

According to Webster’s dictionary, our mindset is a combination of our conscious and our subconscious thoughts and emotions.

For the average person, they think 50,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day.

Of those, 5% are conscious thoughts, and 95% or subconscious thoughts. Together they contribute to your overall mindset.

Your thoughts and your emotions can be instantaneous, in the moment, for specific situations.

Your thoughts and feelings interacting with a pet like a dog is an example. The interaction with a pet is usually temporary, so it’s bounded by a shorter time period of repeated thoughts and emotions. And so, the conscious thoughts and emotions around the pet are relatively consistent because of the brief and repetitive nature of the interaction with a pet.

However, a job can take up much of your day, or working with a particular person can take up much of your day, so the thoughts and emotions there are much more complex and dynamic.

Our brain comprises many, many neurons that are linked to form neural nets. Those neural nets, when used repeatedly, become more hardwired or fixed.

Those fixed thoughts and emotions can be conscious and subconscious neural net programming. So to change one’s mindset, one has to realize that the programming in the brain can be a long-term established pattern or set of patterns.

To change these thought patterns or habits that become part of our mindset, you first must become aware of these conscious and subconscious thought patterns.

Each thought that you have has an electromagnetic charge associated with it in the brain. Yes, it’s very small, but it is still measurable, and science shows that an active brain has a lot of electromagnetic energy.

But the electromagnetic energy is stronger when emotions are felt around those particular thoughts. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the electromagnetic charge is attached to those thoughts.

So, if we want to analyze our mindset and see which areas are dominant, we need to look at the ones with the strongest energy, the strongest electromagnetic energy in the brain. That energy is a strong thought and strong emotion construct.

It follows then, that our most critical first step is to become aware of those thoughts and emotions of our mindset that are the most challenging to us.

It’s like you are a detective, and you need to explore your mindset's conscious and subconscious realms to identify where you have the greatest challenges. When you do this on a regular basis, you become more aware, and you are becoming more conscious of your mindset.

You have to define the problem before you can fix the problem. So becoming aware of your mindset is the first step in leveling up your mindset. 



Now, there are two approaches to determine which part of your mindset you want to change.

The first area is improving positive traits or thought processes. The second area is the negative habits or tendencies you want to eliminate or lessen in your experience.

So for the first area, what are some habits or thought processes that help you become successful in work, family relationships, and life that you feel competent in?

Which of those do you feel you want to improve the most?

Why would that improvement benefit you?

You can narrow down specific traits to improve by answering these questions.

Conversely, identifying the negative traits or habits of your mindset that you want to change might be very obvious because you are already very aware of them, yet, there are hidden or less obvious traits that need some time to expose.

Challenge yourself to reflect on your day or the past week and select a few events where you wish to handle the situation better.

What were the things that you thought?

What were the emotions you felt in those situations?

Why did they come up, and how often have they come up before?

The well-respected personal growth guru, Dr. Joe Dispenza, writes in his books and talks in his workshops and videos about how important it is to identify habits that need changing. Using the aforementioned process, you will begin to realize that you have conscious thoughts and emotions in those situations, but more than likely, you have some subconscious habitual responses internally, both from a logical thought process and from an emotional response process.

What you need to do is to identify the repeating and common subconscious thought and emotion habits. Personal development experts say that identifying these subconscious habitual mindset traits is the key to transforming your mindset.

These habits are destructive in nature and lower your performance. It may seem obvious, but changing these habits will be the most challenging.

If you are going to make a significant change, you have to identify these destructive habits before you replace them. And this analytical process of evaluating your subconscious mindset will be more challenging.

Once you’ve identified some conscious and subconscious mindset traits, you will need to determine the effort required to change each trait. It will be your most important determinant of success. This requires you to be honest with yourself.

Sometimes it is difficult to expose a hidden trait. Some people find that they are in denial about their unhelpful habits.

Some people might be able to eagerly want change around some of those habits.

But the more entrenched you are with consistent habits, the greater strength you will need to help overcome them.

You need to ask yourself: how long have I been thinking this way?

The longer you have been thinking that way, consciously or subconsciously, will indicate how much effort will be required to change your habits and thought processes.

A good technique is identifying traits to work on and by categorizing them into "easy" or "harder".

So, if you have a positive trait that you want to elevate and think it would be fairly easy to do so, write that down in the easy column.

For the harder traits, conscious and subconscious, write those down for improvement or illuminating.

You will need to identify the new traits you want to exemplify.



What are the new thoughts, the new emotions you want to have around that particular issue?

Then, identify how likely you are to shift into that new thought and emotion construct.

The difficulty with harder traits is another factor in determining how likely you are to change that mindset trait. Regardless, you want to simplify the process and evaluating which will be easier or harder is essential.

Some people may have some ingrained habits and it might seem daunting or overwhelming.

For those people, if you are one of them, you will probably want to start with something easier.

You would be more likely to change those easier traits than the harder ones.

Most people who have not worked on improving their mindset need to start simply.

A simple step is to work on the easier traits you’ve identified.

Conversely, if you like a difficult challenge, look at some of the harder challenges and see which ones you would want to go after because you feel like you are much more likely to be successful. 



One of the greatest reasons people fail to make a permanent change in their personal development or their mindset change is the simple fact that they lose interest and, more specifically, they lose momentum.

You are doing the critical task of re-programming the neural nets in your brain to a whole new process. In order to make that change and not fall back into your brain's old neural net programming, you need to fortify and strengthen the new neural net.

One does this with repetition and enhanced energy or emotions attached to the new thought process.

So, building momentum is critical because you’re going to strengthen those neural networks.

One helpful technique to build momentum is to start with the easier traits and do a number of those to build plasticity in your neural network. Plasticity is the tendency or ability to make changes.

What this is doing is training your brain to change.

Trying to tackle many difficult challenges can be time-consuming and require a lot of effort. And so, building the habit of change will take longer.

The advantage here is that the easier traits you want to work on will be the best to build momentum and build that plasticity in your mindset. Once you have a few of the easier traits changed, you will be more likely to succeed in changing the difficult mindset traits.

You can change your mindset and have success leveling up that mindset when you are able to add a boost to it.

That boost is reflecting back on the changes that you have made and feeling a strong uplifting emotion that subconsciously reinforces the benefit of your making those changes. That uplifting emotion is something like joy or gratitude, or even excitement.

Science shows that electromagnetic thoughts in the brain are strongest when they have the emotion of gratitude attached to that thought.

So, reflecting back on your progress is beneficial because you are going to be reflecting back on and feeling an uplifting emotion. That reinforces to your subconscious that making change is good for you and will inspire you to continue to make those changes.

You are giving your mindset change a boost by using heightened emotions from progress to re-enforce the new thought pattern.

A mindset up level program can provide the framework and systematize the process to help ensure greater follow through and likelihood of success.

The old shampoo adage “rinse and repeat“ is applicable for the next step.

Neurons that fire together repeatedly wire together. When you repeat the process of changing old habits into new ones, you will be changing yourself not only at a fundamental level but at a more expanded level.

You will begin to see other opportunities for changing your habits and traits of your mindset.

When you repeat the process, especially with the harder challenges, you elevate your performance. You are developing capabilities that you wouldn’t normally have developed.

The best way to ensure that these changes and improvements in your development last is to repeat the process regularly.

When you’ve built momentum, you become more successful at the changes. But also, to continue to improve in life, one needs to continue the process.

Repeating the process for you, that one that has been successful for you is your best way of improving yourself because you have done it the way that works for you.



When you start with the question “how to level up your mindset, you realize that your thoughts and your emotions attached to the thoughts comprise your personal energy.

You have many personal energies that you experience throughout your day and throughout your life. In order to change that energetic mindset of yours, you need to become aware of that mindset and then institute the steps listed above to make the change.

In my work with coaching clients, I find that creating awareness is often the biggest factor in making a mindset shift. With patterns, it can be hard to become aware of that mindset and then institute the steps listed above to make the change.

In my work with coaching clients, I find that creating awareness is often the biggest factor in making a mindset shift. With 95% of our subconscious thoughts lurking around and forming their own habit patterns, it can be hard for a person to be aware of those changes. Exposing the subconscious mindset traits you want to change will be the most valuable asset in your personal development journey. 

Next steps: Naturally, your own introspective process will be the most beneficial. But sometimes, you need some extra help, and that’s where a personal development coach can help.

If you struggle to prioritize the changes you need to make or even identify the changes you’d like to make, schedule a free consultation with me to get clarity on your current mindset.

Leveling up your mindset will be one of the most rewarding experiences you will ever have!