Control your mind, control your results
Our thinking patterns determine how we feel at any moment. How we feel at any moment determines what we do. And what we do determines the results we get in our lives.
Everyone at this time is trying to tell us to change our behaviour.
Be more caring about your clients, engage them with empathy and reassurance.
Take more care over your tasks.
Pay attention and be patient.
Communicate your thoughts to your colleagues and boss with honesty and openness.
While this is all very well, nothing will change unless we all pay attention to the thinking patterns that underly all these behaviours. If I have a belief that says “never trust anyone until they first prove that they are trustworthy”, then it doesn’t matter how much I try to be open with people, I will always default to my underlying belief in practice.
So, if we all truly care about changing the way we do business in this new world, then the only way to show it is to stop all the activity for a moment and listen to ourselves.
How do we see ourselves?
Does our sense of identity match our behaviour, or are we living a false life?
What’s really important to us?
Do our values align with our behaviour, or are we rejecting these with every action we take?
And are we acting upon beliefs that we developed many years ago and which have no relevance to us today?
Are we sabotaging our future with these limiting beliefs?
Once we take control of our minds, the rest will fall neatly into place and we can start picking up the pieces left by an era of blindness to ourselves.
James Irvine, Team Egyii, Singapore
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Tags: Change, Leadership, Performance, Personal Development
April 24th, 2009 at 11:44 am
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May 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
[...] affects the way others feel around you and about you, creating a knock-on effect on all kinds of results. If you’re client-facing, their experience of you might affect their attitude towards your [...]
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Great post, but its a bit long and most people like short and sweet posts!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Thanks for your feedback. Point taken, the blog should have been a bit shorter.
James
June 17th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
[...] We can’t strategise this by deciding what behaviours we are going to engage in to create trust. We can’t fake it. It comes from our intent. [...]