Are You An Impostor?

Kia Ora,

Good afternoon, from New Zealand, Friends and Colleagues

A short 'think-piece' today just to get us thinking about what we might really be doing here, based on personal life experience, and observation of others, in a 45-year career as a professional leader......

How Badly Do You Really Want It

Straight to the core of the matter; often I have said to myself that I am willing to do whatever it takes, and often when I say that, I really do mean it at the time.

The problem is that reality continually throws us curve balls, and it is our resilience that will decide how far we get, rather than our daydreams or wishes.

It Has To Be Personal

In my experience, in order to achieve something you have to really want to do it. That is why Eisenhower's famous uttering is so compelling for any leader.

So anyone here who is 'copying' someone else's view of success or achievement or definition of done, probably is an impostor (although they may not yet realise it)

This is exactly why one of the first things a that you are encouraged to do at Wealthy Affiliate is to set some tangible, realistic, achievable short and medium term goals, to help personalise the journey.

Revisit The Goals

I am no psychologist but I have been taught a great deal about the human psychology as I

have been developed in my various leadership roles.

One of the things that I have learned and continue to believe is that personal goals are powerful drivers if taken seriously.

It is statistically proven over and over again that there are more achievements realised by those who set goals, in a meaningful way, rather than just going through the motions and ticking the box.

SMART Goals are a great way of preventing oneself from becoming an impostor.

Your Choice

I have a suggestion that you may consider, or not, it is your choice entirely.

First of all I would ask you to seriously go back and consider what you really did when you set your goals on joining WA.

Ask yourself the question, did you just go through a box ticking exercise, because it was part of the onboarding process when you wrote those goals down?

Or did you really mean it, and if you really meant it, have you been working specifically to achieve what you said you wanted to achieve?

Are your goals real goals or just wishes?

If they are not SMART then they probably are wishes, only you know.

Yesterday

We are all human, we are all frail. Yesterday I took my foot off the pedal I had been going full

steam for 113 days since joining WA. Yesterday I fell into unexpected lethargy. Oh I did my obligatory 10 mins of doing something to move forward but I had a lot more time available to me that I could have given to business activity. I just was not, for whatever reason, motivated

So I binge watched a streaming TV series LoL. I even felt wee pangs of guilt while doing so.

My goals are real and I have developed them beyond what is written on the goals thread at WA to be fully fledged SMART Goals.

This morning I revisited them and did an attitude check and I am back on message, determined to achieve what I have set out to achieve between now and May 2021.

I may not have been, if I did not have that 'map' to return to and keep my course straight and true.

With that, from New Zealand Friends and Colleagues I bid you a sunny Southern Hemisphere good afternoon.

Kia Koa, Kia Kaha

Hamish🧐