Leadership and Discovery

One of the most exciting aspects of being an executive, an entrepreneur, and employee is what you can learn about yourself, on the way to completing a strategic plan, a new product launch, or finishing the filing.

Amazing things happen when you pay attention. “Attention to what?” you ask. Attention to your own behavior, to what pushes your buttons, what makes you sad, or mad, or glad.

And the workplace, where you spend so much of your life, is a perfect place to start the process of observing your own behavior. Sadly, we are all expert sat seeing other people’s flaws and problems than we are our own.

So, let’s make the weekend and next week the “Look in the Mirror” time for positive change that will impact the rest of your life. Think about it; would you wear the same clothes everyday for a week, or only eat hamburgers morning, noon, and night for a month.

“How stupid, of course I would not do that!” Yet, think about it; we say the same things, think the same thoughts, get angry with the same people about the same subjects over and over. It’s time for a change.

Once you begin to explore who you are in a new way unbelievable, amazing things start to happen. Take a notepad and write down what bugs you, and who. Do this for a day and you will begin to see patterns of behavior. You’ll notice you have not changed your people diet in a very long time.

Jim, who has the cubicle across from you, is loud. When he talks on the phone you cringe. How long has this been going on; months, maybe even years? Have you ever told him how disturbing his voice is for you? I’ll bet the answer is “No, are you kidding?”

As a workplace relationship expert I can promise you, you are not alone. Most of the time we “stuff it“; maybe that is part of the obesity crisis in our country.

Once you discover the pain points in your life, really look at them and how they keep recurring in many different situations you can do something about it. In “Don’t Bring It to Work” there are tips and tools to make change happen.

First, however, it is your job to be the leader of your own life and discover the themes that connect and make you annoyed and uncomfortable. Then you are at core issues to do something about it. It’s about you, it’s about me, and it’s about time.