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In a leadership role, it is vital that you see your own potential. Even if you have been told before that you aren’t good enough, recognizing your own potential to overcome challenges is a vital step towards being a better leader. Being a role model to others doesn’t mean pretending to be the most amazing person in the world who has never made any mistakes; it means looking hard in the mirror and striving every day to become the person you can be, despite it all.
Have you ever exceeded your own expectations? Perhaps it was when you were exercising and you managed to run a little further than you thought, or in a personal matter when you were braver than you thought you could be in a hard situation. Sometimes we surprise ourselves in the most unexpected times. If you want to learn how to regularly exceed your own expectations, read on to find out how.
Practising Self Reflection
If something at work makes you feel angry, stressed or overwhelmed, it’s time to check in with yourself. We all get scared sometimes, but the particular situation that has brought up all these negative feelings might tell you something about yourself. Reflecting not just on what you feel, but why you might be feeling that way allows you to understand yourself more deeply and tackle any issues you have head-on.
Our past negative experiences influence the way we react in the future, so perhaps the stressful thing in the present is a result of a bad experience in the past. Self reflection helps us to move forward as a leader and encourage others to examine their own feelings. When it comes to meeting and exceeding our own expectations, self reflection allows us to concentrate on what we need to do to go beyond our fears, our pain and our limits.
Focus On The Process
If you have big dreams, it is very easy to focus on the end result as your only goal. But of course, in order to achieve the big thing, you will need to conquer smaller achievements, like stepping stones towards the final destination. If you ignore the stepping stones and try to jump straight to the end, you are likely to fall.
If you want to exceed your own expectations, it’s time to focus on the process. Look ahead at what is in front of you, rather than fixating on the finish line. When the finish line approaches, you’ll have all the work, time and effort you spent conquering the journey, so much so that crossing that line will feel like no problem at all. What’s more, you’ll be able to get beyond it. Want to successfully invest in cryptocurrency? Start practising on a virtual stock market simulator. Want to manufacture your goods at high speed to produce them worldwide? Invest slowly in high-volume 3D printing production. Whatever the end goal, there are steps you must take before you get there.
Overall, exceeding your own expectations doesn’t happen overnight. Take the first step and look inward to start on your journey to reaching your potential.
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