MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Mindset

Limiting Beliefs

Write down one limiting belief about being an entrepreneur and replace it with a practical skill you can learn this semester.

Say aloud a strength you bring to entrepreneurship that disproves a belief holding you back. Repeat it with conviction.

Choose one simple study task you’ve avoided—set a ten-minute timer and begin it without overthinking.

Put a sticky note on your laptop with a counter-belief that inspires you. Read it before every class today.

Replace negative self-talk with a “What if I can?” statement—test it in a low-risk class setting today.

Visualize yourself succeeding at a venture skill you think you can’t do—notice what changes in your energy.

Empowering Beliefs

Choose one empowering belief about your potential as a founder and write it on a notecard to review before class.

Repeat an empowering belief about your capacity to build ventures in front of a mirror before class or study.

Create a phone lock screen with a short empowering belief about your future as an entrepreneur this week.

Share an empowering belief on your class forum—something guiding how you approach learning to build ventures.

Choose one belief that energizes you—apply it to a current assignment and notice the shift in mindset.

Begin your day by writing one empowering belief and one action it inspires you to take for your studies.

Opportunity beliefs

Take one course challenge and brainstorm three possible opportunities it could open for your venture idea.

Begin your day by asking: “Where could today’s biggest course obstacle become a future opportunity?”

Revisit one ongoing project and identify an overlooked angle you could test or develop starting today.

In your next team meeting, reframe a concern from peers as an opportunity in one clear sentence.

Scan your project list and label one as an “opportunity zone” for developing new skills.

Set a five-minute timer to brainstorm new opportunity angles on a recent academic failure.

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