Welcome to the Angus Mindset!
I’m beginning a website on personal development, mindset, leadership and success.
I have been up and down during my 31 years on Earth.
From 2006-2012 I was in the Army Cadet program in Canada. I was a success in army cadets because I was extremely dedicated to my skill building and leadership. In 2012 I retired from cadets with many accomplishments. I was about to turn 19 years old, and I was the Sergeant Major of my cadet unit at the time. I had accumulated many accolades as a cadet. I was the recipient of the Legion Medal of Excellence in 2008 as a Master Corporal, making me the youngest and only junior cadet to ever get the award.
A few years later, as a Master Warrant Officer, I was the awarded the Lord Strathcona Medal as the top cadet in my unit. The following year in 2012, I was appointed as the units Sergeant Major. This earned me a promotion to Chief Warrant Officer. I had reached the success I had set out to reach 6 years prior. In the summer of 2012, I was appointed the Drill Sergeant Major at Connaught Ranges. This was a summer camp for Army Cadets who were on course developing their skills on the range.
Around the same time, I discovered recreational ball hockey. I played at Overbrook Community Centre in Ottawa. I had a deep passion for the game at the time. In my first ever season playing organized ball hockey, I scored many goals. I was known as a front of the net player who would set up screens and score many goals from the crease. I was 5th in league scoring and scored the cup winning goal that year.
While my cadet career was coming to a close, I had my first run in with the law. Developing bipolar and being sleep deprived was a hinderance to the start of my adult life. I was gifted with being able to harness superhuman levels of energy. The problem was my judgment went out the window. In 2013, I was dealing with the law, and my mental health challenges. I never allowed the system to define me. To this day, I remain well and committed to helping other people succeed.
I lived out my ball hockey passion for many years, took my physical fitness seriously and won several championships before COVID. The friendships I have now are mostly from ball hockey.
In 2015, I started to gamble at the casino. It wasn’t long before I developed a gambling addiction. I have no regrets for all the wins and losses I experienced there. It made me a stronger person, and helped me realize that being a risk-taker is a good thing. You would just rather take risks that are calculated with a positive expected value.
Fast forward to 2022, I was already a life coach for a few years and working as a landscaper to get by. That summer, I was hired as a peer support worker at the same hospital I had got services from while I was going through some hard times. Now I have a near full time job, doing work that’s in my element. I’m far more congruent now doing work that helps people. As a landscaper I was just paying the bills. Now with my work, and the coaching I do alongside my job, I’m able to succeed in all domains of life.
This website will involve a lot of my personal experience. I will teach mindset lessons for your benefit. I believe in the law of assumption. This means that life will reflect your base assumptions back to you. In order to create an empowering belief system, you have to look at the base assumptions underneath.
I assume that life is always working for me. Life is going to give you tests and difficulties. These are great opportunities in disguise. As long as you look for the hidden gift in your obstacles, you will see the obstacle is the way. I became stronger for my harder years, and I know you have great potential to go on this journey with me toward self-actualization.
To your success,
Angus