Catch Your Thinking Before It Catches You #301
The Confident Leader
BOOST YOUR LEADERSHIP IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
His thinking influenced his performance. He felt the dread before the first slide was presented.
“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra
This Week’s Edition
Your thinking dictates more than you know.
This edition walks through how to take captive your thinking to get the results you want.
Clarify Your Thinking
Reading James’ mind, you could see the challenge a mile away.
“We’re never going to get this business. We aren’t even in their league. They’ve been with their current provider for years.”
He’d been thinking this for over a week. No wonder they didn’t get the business.
Thoughts lead to actions. Actions lead to results.
We’re not going to get the business type thinking led to the reality of not getting the business.
Your thinking influences your performance every time.
The voice in your head is your thinking. What is it telling you? Is it setting you up to succeed?
Thinking is the root cause of the results you get. Start with your thinking. Then progress to your actions.
What you think you will do. What you do will generate your results.
Old Thinking: I just need to change my approach… act differently.
New Thinking: I need to change the thoughts that are not setting me up to succeed.
Thoughts Lead to Actions
Here’s a simple thinking framework. The 3 R’s:
- Recognize. Catch the thought playing in your head that is not setting you up to succeed.
- Refocus. Reframe your thought to one that does set you up to succeed.
- Routine. Practice the reframe until it is automatic.
Begin improving your outcomes and the results you want:
Step 1. Journal your thinking for five days.
Step 2: Review your journal and pick one thought you know you need to change.
Step 3: Replace that thought with a reframed thought that sets you up to succeed.
Step 4. Write that thought at the top of your thinking journal every day until it is engrained.
- Recognize: We’re never going to get this business.
- Refocus: They fit our ideal client profile and are buyers. If we don’t pitch them we will never know whether they are interested. And, if they say “no,” okay! We have other prospects.
- Routine: On any given day you never know who will say “yes” so I am going to keep pitching.
Don’t make leadership harder by failing to recognize and refocus the thinking that’s keeping you from the success you earnestly desire.
Boost Your Performance
In this week’s video, I’ll share a reframed thought that saved me from utter disaster.
What’s Your Opinion?
What’s one recurring thought you’ve had to reframe in your leadership journey? Send me a note: robin.pou@robinpou.com
If you are going to be a leader, you might as well be a good one. Don’t let doubt count you out. Have a confident week!
Robin Pou, Chief Advisor and Strategist
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During the Covid-19 Pandemic, I began a video series called “Panic or Plan?” It was designed to equip leaders to navigate the doubt they experienced and to rise in the confidence they needed to lead during turbulent times. It took off. I then started this newsletter to equip leaders in the same fashion each week for the doubt that crashes across the bow of their leaderSHIP.
