Reframing your Mind for Professional and Personal Growth Dr. Fred Mugambi Mwirigi JKUAT.
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Transcript of Reframing your Mind for Professional and Personal Growth Dr. Fred Mugambi Mwirigi JKUAT.
Wherever it takes you…
It is a journey that is ultimately rewarding for some people and awfully torturous for others.
Wherever it takes you
Ultimately your journey must build you and your organization
Both are intertwined
Your greatest challenge
In your journey you will constantly battle four challenges:
i. Your awareness about yourselfii. The awareness of your team about youiii. The awareness of your team about itself iv. Your actual capacity to deliver as a team player
Awareness about the self
So who exactly are you?
Do you know yourself well enough
to entrust your future with that
person you call ‘me’?
Awareness about the self
You are your fears and your anxieties;
your frailties and your flaws;your wishes and your anticipations;
your hopes and prayers;your capabilities and your confidences.
Awareness about the self
Self Awareness allows you to understand people,
understand their perceptions about you, understand their attitudes towards you
….it helps you to respond to them
Improving self awareness
• Analyze yourself constantly and objectively
• Question personal current reality
• Perform a self-review every too often
• Find benchmarks and use them
Awareness of others about you
We all have Blind Spots
These are the habits, preferences, dislikes, prejudices and all those things about us that are clearly apparent
to those with whom we deal.
Enhancing external awareness
The awareness that people develop about us is informed by:
1. Who we actually are2. Who we ‘act’ or behave to be
Enhancing external awareness
Key things:
Impression management
Aligning the real you with the person we wish you were
Awareness of your team about itself
Does your team membership facilitate your team to keep rediscovering itself?
Dreams
• We were created to dream and so we are perpetual dreamers.
• When we dream we wish and hope that we could one day achieve the object of our dreams.
•The journey to being successful must, therefore,
begin with a dream.
Plans
• The journey towards success demands that dreams be transformed into plans
• planning is the process of seeing the end in clearly quantifiable terms
Action
• Action is simply doing• You must move from plans to doing taking into
consideration three things1. Time 2. Resources3. Returns
Transforming Wishes into Action
Identify and overcome illusory hurdles -imaginations
that are unreal and surmountable
Develop an action plan as if you have no hurdles first
Handle the hurdles
The power of your mind
Are you wired to be a loser or to be a winner? What is your DNA?
Some of us spend their days building DNA’s of
success while others spend their days, often
unconsciously, building DNA’s of failure.
The power of the mind
Who we end up becoming is very little a product of education or even opportunity.
It is more about what we end up doing with enablers such as education and opportunity.
We decide if to be or not to be winners or losers
Communing with the mind
We continually communicate to the mind over time conditions it to believe or not to believe in specific
possibilities.
Words have the power to translate to inclinations and eventually action.
Communing with the mind
Repeated involuntary and voluntary action is a product of mind conditioning.
The power of repeated communication, especially
communication to the self, is simply immense.
Communing with the mind
The more you communicate victory to yourself the more you take up the lifestyle of a victor and the more
you conform to the culture of victors.
Communing with the mind
You get what you attract and you lose what you despise.
What the mind can conceive and repeatedly claim it
can achieve.
We have within us the power to attract or to repel.
Leading a Crusade
You must make whatever you wish to achieve a crusade.
You do this by communicating your passion to achieve a certain goal to those that hold the keys to your
success repeatedly and in a convincing way.
Leading a crusade
No one wants to invest in an idea whose owner has
not invested in.
You must constantly exhibit undying passion to
succeed
Nurturing strength of Mind
Mentally strong people are less likely to give up when
challenges come.
It requires great inner will and consistency.
It involves making a mental decision to block mental
weakeners and nurture mental strengtheners.
Mental Strength Mental Strengtheners Mental Weakeners
Private meditation and prayer time Constant bouts of regret and worry
Trying out new challenging things/ risk taking Resenting other peoples achievements
Empowering and serving people Dwelling on the negatives (e.g. past failures)
Identifying and following a powerful role model Following negative role models
Constant learning through reading and training Self-pity
Physical fitness activities Engaging in tasks that are way off your capabilities and skills
Social time with positive minded friends Keeping friends who are perennial losers
Quality family time Overdependence on other people
Working in teams Individualistic task performance
Ambition Satisfaction with current conditions
The low moments
In your journey to achieve success you must realize that you are a mortal being and a chip in the wider and more complex configuration of
life.
The low moments
You must remember that the journey of success
is often interspersed with moments of physical
exhaustion and psychological stress.
The low moments
This journey is sometimes characterized by feelings of
deep inadequacy and a thirst for higher level
reassurance.
This happens to everybody, even the strongest man
or woman.
Reacting during the low moments
Don’t be too fast or too slowDon’t be too emotional
Don’t be too judgmentalDon’t raise your voice too high
Remember, your work is to show excellence, whether the conditions are right or wrong.
Networks
Networks are to success what oxygen is to life.
In today’s world most business deals are sealed informally before the documentation is done.
Networks
build a wide network of friends and associates don’t burn bridges.
When conflicts develop between you and your friends or associates make every effort to resolve them.
If you cannot resolve the conflict just yet don’t be tempted to burn the bridge.
Networks
As a leader keep all your networks active.
The world is a complex network of skilled and informed people each of who holds a key to something.
The more friends you make the more keys you will be in control of.
Exit the crowd but work with the crowd
Crowds are good and bad.
Sometimes crowds cheer us to victory while on
other occasions they cheer us to failure.
Exit the crowd but work with the crowd
We need the crowd because we need its networks
we need the crowd because we need to be cheered
on
we need the crowd because we need their resources.
Exit the crowd but work with the crowd
We must learn to tap into the resources of the crowd without necessarily singing the tenor of
the crowd.
We must master the art of being in the crowd and being out of the crowd at the same time.
We must know when take over from the crowd and when to hand over to the crowd.
Your main shortfalls
1. Practical knowledge and
skills
2. Capacity to anticipate
3. Affinity to information
4. A balanced ego
5. People orientation
6. Team orientation
7. Passion and energy
8. Undying loyalty
9. Appetite for risk10. Emotion management11. Impression management