Don’t Try To Hide It, I Saw You!

Don’t worry, I never saw you do that 😉, but isn’t it funny how we suddenly find ourselves caught out with that ginormous slab of chocolate cake or sausage roll (or

whatever took your fancy) stuffed in our mouths only days after we vowed not to?

So often, we say we are going to do things and we then don’t seem to even get off the starting blocks. Lose weight, do exercise etc, etc, blah, blah, blah…

But have you ever wondered why that is? Why is it so easy to slip back into old habits?

Surely it ought to be easy because surely, we know that is what we want to do?

Well I was thinking how this has changed in a massive way for me after something different happened over the holiday period!

This New Year I stumbled across Netflix film about the environment and the impact of eating meat on it. I had no idea before this that it was even a thing, so my mindset was changed completely, and I decided I wanted things to be different for me and my family. I am now on my 10th day of Veganuary and still going strong (no dairy in sight). But, before you switch off, I am not about to try to turn your mind on meat and dairy – Oh No, this is not about that (phew!).

But what it is about is this:

My clients know that have been quite partial to a piece of cake but also to an analogy or two in my coaching and food tends to feature heavily (don’t ask me why).

So, I was likening the chocolate cake and no meat or dairy issues to the world of impact and influence in your business.

When we want to do things differently and really make an impact on our lives or someone else, whether we are talking about eating cake or meat or about our business, then we can rarely “just change” like we seem to expect, because it takes more than that, doesn’t it?

It takes mindset and behaviour change before we can “Just Do It”. Maybe Nike have got that going on for them, but the rest of us need more. We need T.B.D. We need to Thinkdifferently, Behave differently so that we can Do differently.

We often say that we are going to make more effort to be productive, effective, support our staff, our teams and to be better at communicating and all the other changes we need to make. We know it makes sense but, somehow, we still find ourselves having more work than day, more conflict in the team and more frustration because things have not changed the way we hoped.

Well maybe that is because we are so busy trying to “Do” things differently that we haven’t done the other two parts – to Think differently and Behave Differently first.

I call this Think, Be Do Leadership and it is so simple that it really works.

If you did nothing else than applied these three words, you will be able to “Do” anything you set out to do. Try it – it makes a massive difference.

Sometimes we need a bit of support to get those three things right and that is one of the things I love helping my clients with. Getting that Think Be Do approach right from the beginning is super important and means you will be amazed at the game changing results it brings.

If you want to find out how it can help you get that cake out of your mouth or how it can help you be the leader you really want to be in 2019 so you can drive your business forward with authenticity and real action then pop a reply in the comment or message me privately with the word CAKE and let’s see how we can make it happen for you in 2019.

I’m looking forward to speaking with you about your Think Be Do journey to getting things done!