Beliefs determine any leadership behavior. Therefore, it becomes very important for leaders to really spend the necessary time to understand their underlying values and beliefs of human behavior and interaction. Whether or not you are an effective leader depends on it.

In this post, we’re exploring the mechanisms of your beliefs and how they affect leadership.

YOUR MINDSET CREATES YOUR REALITY

Our thoughts are the beginning of everything we do or don’t. We experience life using multiple mental maps, or blueprints, built through verbal programming (what we hear), modelling (what we see) and specific incidents (what we experience) of our childhood and past experiences. Our beliefs are a feeling of certainty of what something means. They are the lenses through which we scan our reality, and which affect our thoughts, emotions and behaviors, often in an automatic, unconscious way.

“The meaning of things is the meaning you are giving it”

Here’s how the process of manifestation goes:

So it means the way you think causes your emotions, leading to your actions (or lack of action) and determining your final results.

Ask yourself to what extend your current blueprint is designed for success or failure, for growth & learning or for the status quo, for working hard or working smart, for collaborative leadership or top down leadership, for risk taking & entrepreneurship or for risk avoidance, etc.

“The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.”

— Tony Robbins

YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR MIND

If you want to become a better leader, you have to learn how to question your foundation, namely your belief systems. Self-leaders look closely at long-held beliefs about themselves and others, and change the ones that are hindering goal achievement.

“Your must improve your thinking to improve your Leadership”

If you want to change, you need to make sure you are consciously aware about the beliefs you are creating, to understand them. If your beliefs don’t empower you, change them.

Stay tuned! Next week, we’ll share with you techniques to grow your awareness about your thoughts and to shift your mindset.

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About the self-leadership series

This weekly series aims to share tools to help you grow your self-leadership and to connect to your three leadership intelligences: Head, Heart and Gut. When using these three intelligences, you increase your impact, relational skills, adaptability and resilience and can navigate the ever-changing environment with ease. So grab a notebook to make these practices powerful for you!

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