Self-Limiting Beliefs

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Presence, Management, Careers, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Self-limiting beliefs hold us back. We limit who we are so we don't shatter those beliefs.

This month's coaching conversation serves up several strategies to help you push back against those demons.

Along the way, we mention "Leadership and Self-Deception," a great book to help you on your journey.

We also touch on the topic of "Coaching versus Therapy," something I've been talking about for years. You can find an epsiode about it in the archive.

I also mention an interview I did with Eric Cacciatore on his podcast, "Restaurant Unstoppable" episode 298, in which he and I talk about management and turnover and motivation. It was a blast. Check it out.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of executive
0:07.4	coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want
0:11.1	to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're talking
0:15.6	about self-limiting beliefs. She just won't speak up, Julie said.
0:22.6	I've been giving her the feedback Tom, I promise you I have, but she says things like,
0:26.7	well I don't want to step over a line, or I don't want to make a big deal of it,
0:30.7	whatever the it of the moment is.
0:32.3	Julie was taught. deal of it, whatever the it of the moment is.
0:34.0	Julie was talking about Maco.
0:37.8	Julie wanted Maco to be her successor as Chief Compliance Officer, but Maco wasn't stepping
0:41.8	up, at least not the way Julie wanted. I had coached
0:45.1	Julie four years earlier she was thinking the time had come for me to coach Maco.
0:49.1	She had just finished telling me half a dozen ways, Maco was not stepping up, and she asked,
0:54.6	If you took a wild guess, what would you say is holding her back?
0:59.4	I gave a little shrug and then said, self-limiting beliefs.
1:04.8	She squinted saying, I think I know what that means, but how do you define it?
1:10.0	I said, well first I define belief. I say a belief is just a story you choose to think is true that's all a
1:16.5	belief is something you think is true and makeo is believing something that
1:21.6	isn't true? she asked.
1:24.2	Well no to her it's true but not to everyone on the planet it's not a truth with a
1:28.2	capital T. So what would a self-limiting belief sound like?
1:33.1	She asked.
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