Business can be tough. But it is even tougher when you don’t see the signs of mental health issues creeping in and fail to take action. It gets much worse before it gets better. So what are you doing about your mental health? How do you monitor, protect and seek help on mental health issues?
The Goldilocks Principle
Controllables & Uncontrollables
A significant controllable to business success is your psychological game – what happens between the ears. Business is not for the feint-hearted. It takes courage to wake up each day and embrace the challenges that your business throws at you. When facing challenges, I find it useful to split them intro Controllables & Uncontrollables.
Super Powers & Kryptonite
Superman is awesome. Don’t you have days when you feel like Superman? Days where you seem powerful and indestructible. Everything you say or do has maximum impact. You feel confident and powerful in meetings and smash out work effortlessly. But put a small chunk of Kryptonite next to him and he is rendered powerless. Just like Superman, we all have our own Kryptonite.
Trust Your Instincts
Why do we doubt our instincts? To mitigate risk, believing this will lead to a better decision. A more considered decision. We place more weight on inputs from several trusted sources beyond ourselves. We often decrease the weighting of our instincts in comparison to the views of others. How can trusting our instincts help us?