Mindset Check

I’ve always been interested in opportunities that make me a little scared and a little excited. The Mindset Check worksheet is a fun way to explore your feelings about an upcoming challenge.   

Ok, I’ll admit it up front: my design for the Mindset Check worksheet is unorthodox – but fun! It will definitely work better if you print it out. Basically, you record your challenge in the centre of the circle and then respond to the statements in the concentric circles. If the statements feel mostly true, you mark the small circle that follows.

The twists and turns of the worksheet mimic the twists and turns of many opportunities/challenges we face. Once you’ve made yourself dizzy turning the page around and around, tally up the marked circles on the left and right sides of the circle. If you have more circles on the left, the challenge scares you. More on the right, the challenge excites you.

Lastly, I love the question that Jane McGonigal poses in her book Superbetter: “What’s the best that could happen?” – so I threw that in too.

This worksheet isn’t about deciding whether to pursue the opportunity. It’s just a gut check. The best opportunities for learning walk the line between scary and exciting.

You can do it.

Copyright, Use and Distribution

This worksheet is part of my Worksheet Wednesdays experiment. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are free to copy and redistribute this worksheet. You can remix it or adapt it to your purposes, providing you share your revised version too. If you use this worksheet, please attribute Thirdway Think and link to thirdwaythink.com

Inspiration

McGonigal, J. (2017). Superbetter. Toronto: Random House. (“Quest 15”)

Note: This has been updated from an archived post and republished.