<\/a>This is the mindset that pertains to being flexible, to being accommodating. It does not refer to the bending or breaking of principles which you know very well ought not to be broken, stretched, distorted or mutilated. What it means is that you would be willing to make yourself available to meet the needs of others even at the expense of your schedule. It does not mean that you need to be a doormat for others to step on. It means that you recognize the fact that there are many others who are not at the same level of character development as yourself, and it helps you to demonstrate the quality of patience in everyday\u00a0life.<\/span><\/p>\nThink of how well, or how poorly, you deal with disruptions to your schedule. How can you quickly reorganize and re-orientate your time and resources so that disruptions become valuable life lessons?<\/span><\/p>\nMindset of Maintainability<\/span><\/h3>\nMaintenance workers are really the unsung heroes of any age. Often looked upon as mindlessly robotic, we tend to forget that they are the ones who actually keep all our modern machinery running smoothly. We forget that the law of entropy is more real than imagined, and we think of ourselves as above this law. Well, we aren’t. We push maintenance tasks to other people because we think that those tasks are below our station in life.<\/span><\/p>\nThis week, take on a few maintenance tasks at your workplace. If you can’t do that for practical reasons, start chatting with the people who do the work, and find out more about what they do. I wager you’ll find a greater appreciation for what they do, and you might even find one or two ingenious things, nowadays called hacks, that can actually help you with your own work!<\/span><\/p>\nLet us know how it went! Choose your mindsets today!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Week Six of 2014 opens, take a little time to reflect upon the mindsets that characterize you. What is your default mindset?\u00a0Are you happy with it? Are there things which you’d like changed? Do you need to grow in certain aspects? Here are a few Magnificent Mindsets which I trust will be something you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,402,6,7,9,451,13,11,15,429],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/7K0A0868.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-1eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16516,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/16516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}