It's very, very possible that our biggest barrier to what we want is inside of our skull.

If we don't start there and ask a question, how do I think that this ought to work that may not include some things that are needed

to make it work?

What am I thinking about this that may not apply to what I'm trying to do, what I need

to learn?

What self-doubt?

What self-criticist?

I mean, just take that one.

You know, you go to casting vision.

I've seen leaders, they've had the greatest product or idea or whatever, and they've got to go raise money.

And they've got to cast a vision.

You know, they go to Silicon Valley or somewhere, and they got to cast a vision to these

really smart people, BCs and all that. And they get up there and a little voice starts to say,

why are they going to believe me? I've never done anything. Why would they? Okay, once that starts

to happen, what happens is the brain changes,

and everybody knows all the biochemistry involved in this, and the cortisol goes up,

and the adrenals go up, and the prefrontal cortex shuts down. But not only that, the chemistry

of the attraction and the buy-in, even in sales, there's an

interpersonal dyad that happens that comes from your own brain and the energy and the

connection and asking people and getting people and coming in its face. Well, that voice that stopped it all is in

your head. So we better deal with that one. Welcome to Franklin Covey's On Leadership. I'm your host,

Jennifer Colisemo. Every leader knows the frustration

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