2: Mindset: Setting Up Your Brain for Success

Thought Download

Spend at least 15 minutes thinking about and journaling what you think about yourself/how you feel about yourself.

  • When I think about “law school me”, how do I see myself?
  • What am I thinking about myself? Are these thoughts serving me? Are these thoughts feeding my success and happiness? In life? In law school?
  • When I think this way about myself, how do I act? Are these actions serving me? Are these actions feeding my success and happiness?
  • How do I feel stuck in my mindset? What are 5 ways I can start to feel unstuck?
  • What are 10 thoughts that make me feel empowered, confident, successful and happy (or any other feeling I want to have in my life)?
  • If my life had a title, what would it be? If my law school career had a title, what would it be?
  • What thoughts do I want to have about myself?
  • What thoughts do I have about others that I want to have about myself?
  • In what ways is the world working out exactly as it should for me?
  • How has my view of myself changed since I started law school? If I have not yet started law school, how do I think I will change when I start law school?
  • What is one belief about myself that I no longer want to have? What belief do I want to replace it with?
  • What does success mean to me?
  • What are 10 thoughts that I do not currently have about myself, but I want to have in the future?
  • If I could believe anything about myself, what would that belief(s) be?
  • I feel empowered when I _____________________ (fill in the blank).
  • What thoughts/feelings do I want to feel today?

Book recommendation: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer