Change the Way You Define Yourself

“One of the greatest challenges that we face, when we try to improve ourselves – as leaders, partners, friends or family members – is the challenge of changing the way we define ourselves. I must have heard this phrase a thousand times, “That’s just the way I am.” As long as we keep saying “That’s just the way I am” to ourselves we increase the probabilities that “That’s just the way I am always going to be.””
A great little article, by Marshall Goldsmith appearing in Harvard Business Publishing, on June 2, 2008, Change the Way You Define Yourself, which challenges us to look closely at yourself and do more than just ‘conjure’ up excuses for our behaviors or why we are in the situation we are in. It gives us some simple and doable solutions to being the very best we can be.
Enjoy the article and until next time…