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The biggest error that leaders often make is to focus on the goal.

He’s now in a worse position than when he started. He’s not happy with how he looks, feels and performs and on top of that he has a lower opinion of himself and his abilities at least in this area.

Fold this into a business context and you can apply these problems (and results) to both yourself as a leader but also to your team.

A goal focus leads to an unhappy process, constant stress and overwhelm, the feeling that you are always behind, that you and your staff and never quite good enough or that the client is too demanding.

3 Bits of Terrible but all too Common Leadership Advice and What to do Instead

Advice from a qualified source is rarely bad. People tend to give the advice that they need to hear and if they have been or are in a similar situation to you then its likely good advice.

If it’s the advice that they need to hear though it probably means that a. It worked for them but b. They weren’t able to stick to it.

This is what neuroscience teaches us.

Most often we know what to do, we just can’t get ourselves to consistently do it.

What follows is 3 examples of Good Advice that we struggle to take and what to do about it.

The Totally Bizarre Reason that Startups Fail and How to Make Sure You Don’t

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3 Things That GUARANTEE Even the best leader will always struggle with energy, Time and Mental Presence

It doesn’t matter how much you have had enough of your, low energy, constant phone use or working into the evening, ADDING more actions to an overwhelmed system will always result in more overwhelm.

FORCING in the new actions you THINK will help will always result in dropping it when motivation is low or something more critical comes up.

HABITS, STRESSEd Ley23 November 2020willpower, failure, effort, motivation, inspiration, will, coach, coaching, stress, focus, direction, performance, neuroscience, neuro

Failing Backwards

When we extract the lessons the memory shrinks and at the same time we become more whole in the present and better equipped to succeed at the same challenge.

Often my clients will produce exact steps of how to go about failing at the very challenge they have come to me for help with. With that comes the confident of success in the present.

Thought that might be a cool thing to know. I have found it seriously useful and often I’ll notice that I’m noticeably more relaxed from day to day.

HABITS, LEARNINGEd Ley7 August 2020failure, fear, coach, hellerup coach, english coach, life coach, neuroscience, performance coach, ed ley