Is it possible that you are unintentionally sabotaging your own progress toward becoming a better leader? As we’ve written in this series, healthy teams require healthy leaders, so it’s vitally important you take care of yourself. In this podcast episode, we’ll talk about self-care in terms of self-talk, positive thinking and overcoming perfectionism. What you say to yourself is critical to the health of your leadership.
We all have foundational messages that tend to run through our minds on auto-play. Many of these thoughts are negatively oriented. For most of us, the process is so automatic that we often don’t realize how self-critical we are. We can blame our primitive ancestors for these negative leanings. When facing great hardships and threats over time, our thought processes evolved to diligently consider dangers to our existence. In other words, we are actually hard-wired to yield to worry.
The good news is that you can rewrite the negative story you have written about yourself. In this podcast episode, I share my own experience in reversing negative self-talk. The first step was to acknowledge the dysfunctional thought process. I had to intentionally break ranks with my perfectionist leaning to say, “Just because I don’t do something perfectly that doesn’t make me a failure.”
You have value and worth beyond your wildest imagination. Your previous failures and the messages of your past do not have to define who you will become.
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As always, my hope is to encourage you in the pursuit of a better you, better team, better business, better life!
