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Mindset For Reaching Your Goals **Michele Heyward discusses how mindset is pivotal is reaching your goals. With all the planning and accountability, you won't reach your goals without the right mindset.** https://fb.watch/2g0YNZR4pn/ Facebook Live.

TRANSCRIPT

Hey, everybody, and welcome to mentor Monday, I'm Michele Heyward,

the mentor for women of color STEM professionals, and we are still digging in strong for our goals, yes, we're still going to focus on goals for the next few weeks, because many of you have realized that you have some really audacious goals, you have the desire to do so much in your career. But you're not sure where to go, where to how to really structure your goals, how to really get them up and running, much less achieved. So first of all, we talked about last week how to go through and really, really what's included in your goals, right, what's included in your goals. But what I want us to look at today is the mindset, the mindset that you have to have, in order to reach your goals. And I'm gonna share with you something I haven't shared with people in a long time. These are five k race numbers that I did Oh, back in between 2010 and 2012.

And I had a goal at one point in time to do like 13 or 12, five k races in a year.

Now, was I in the best shape? had I ever run? No, those were my goals to do multiple five k races. Do you know I achieved it, but it was simply because of my mindset, and not necessarily my physical well being. And that's what's important. That's really, really what's important is your mindset. Mind over matter really does make it make it easier, and even possible for you to achieve your goals. So number one, believe in yourself. And many like Michelle, I have never done this, write down the things that you have done, you have already achieved what many people no matter race and gender have not done which is obtain a stem degree, right?

Where you like this in your freshman engineering class and look to your left,

look to your right,

only one of you will be left. And when it comes to people of color, it is one out of six, not one out of three, it is one out of six, that will make it to their four year degree, you have already won you have already accomplished so much, just by being a stem professional having that degree, many have not done so. So that is a huge accomplishment. That is a huge accomplishment. So that is one thing many of us have many of you have up and relocated moved away from your family. Maybe you moved to a huge city, and you're from a small town, maybe you from a huge city and moved to a small town or a smaller city. So you've both gone through cultural changes. And you are doing things differently than other people, you know, in your circle. Guess what, that is an achievement You should be proud of. A lot of people refuse to move there. They are afraid. They don't know what's on the other side of the interstate or the other side of the state line or the river. So it's truly truly important that you really say you know what, I did do that. I did leave. I did move on. Yes, that is a huge accomplishment. And for others of you, you are still doing great things, whether it's volunteering, it is doing voter registration, you have other accomplishments, which you're like, oh, everybody does that. No, everybody does not. You are truly doing different things. And if you don't believe me, ask them your friends posts on Twitter, post on Instagram, ask people what do they think that you've done differently and they will tell you take some of your friends. They will let you know how much you have accomplished that you just figure. Everybody does. It's a part of what you do. And it really, really isn't okay.

Number two, if you can see it, you can achieve it. If you can see it, you can achieve it. I literally want you take a pen

and I'm reaching for some paper

and a sheet of paper

and draw what it looks like what is your goal look like? You can do it in AutoCAD. You

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