Ego Check: A 5-Point Inspection

Answer yes or no to the following 5 questions:

 Would it bother you if your company was successful but nobody knew who you were?

1. Is it hard for you to admit you’re wrong?
2. Do you worry your folks want your job?
3. To you struggle to take input from your team?
4. Do you feel like you have to have all the answers?

If you answered yes to more than one of these, the implication is that – you’re human.

So how do us mere mortals become great leaders?

Self awareness alone won’t get us where we want to go…it will only point us in the right direction.

Look at your current habits. Are they serving you? Or is it keeping you stuck?

CEO is the loneliest job. Who can you to talk to? Who can you to vent to? Who can you to bounce ideas off of?

Seriously though…I’m not asking rhetorical questions here…I want you to answer those questions.

Ego has a subtle way of increasing isolation and ego loves a throne.

Needing support is not a sign of failure or a weakness.

Get a support mechanism –Identify your resources:– your staff, executive coaches, consultants, other ceo’s, mentors, etc.

Don’t let your ego get in your way…

Retirement Resistance

Why haven’t you started developing a plan to sell your business?

When you are within 3-5 years of your ideal retirement age, the time to start planning is…well…yesterday.

If you are not ready to visualize what your retirement will look like in your mind’s eye, you won’t ever be ready to start planning your retirement in real life.

Having resistance to the succession planning process is natural, and starting is easier than you think.

Step one:  Figure out what is holding you back.

Experience has shown me that the most common roadblock is the not so simple matter of mental readiness.

Yourbusinessgives you asense of purpose and direction in your life.

It is impossible to imagine walking away from that…

unless you have something meaningful to walk towards.

Retirement is not the end of the road…it is a transition to your next great adventure.

Uncharted territory is not as intimidating when you have a guide to walk with you.

Are you ready to have a confidential conversation about navigating your purposeful steps forward?

abby@leadershiplegacygroup.com

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

Too often we are our own worst enemy, and our harshest critic.

There has always been a lot of pressure to follow the golden rule:

“Treat others the way you want to be treated”

The irony is… we are rarely as hurtful to others as we are to ourselves.

We say the nastiest, most unkind things to ourselves. Things we would never dare utter aloud to anyone else.

It’s time to stop the harsh words and eliminate the judgment. It’s time to give ourselves the same benefit of the doubt, the same caring support, the same kindness that we give others.When we do that, we lift ourselves up and begin to see ourselves with new eyes. We start to recognize our best qualities instead of our perception of our worst qualities. We start to acknowledge that we do have strengths and skills and contributions to make. We see that in fact, we do a lot of things right and we have valuable contributions to make. Our world starts to look a little brighter and our results start to improve. We start attracting more of what we want in our life and releasing what has been holding us back.

Embracing the golden rule is good. It’s the golden rule! Embracing the inverted golden rule is good too! By treating ourselves the way we want others to treat us we bring out our best self every day — and you can’t go wrong with that!

Navigating the ‘soft-side’ issues of succession planning and exit strategy. Building a framework for a very powerful and rewarding future.