I have taken a interesting concept from a book I was reading
called; Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager by
Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins
http://www.blanchardlearning.com/templates/product.asp?product=16090
I feel I can always use help in doing a better job of promoting
my business and I thought maybe we all could use some insight
into how we limit ourselves.
Learning the first trick of self-leadership.
Here is a challenge: What you need – a pair of scissors and a
business card. Take the scissors and cut a hole from the card,
large enough to go around your head. The hole is a space
surrounded by continuous paper- no gaps or breaks or joining
ends.
Now before you go away disgusted let me tell you the story of the
elephant: “When they begin to train an elephant for the circus,
they chain the baby elephant’s leg to a pole in the ground. The
baby elephant wants to get away. He pulls and tugs, but he can’t
escape– the chain is too big and the pole is too deep in the ground.
So he stops trying. As he grows up he just assumes he can’t get away.
Today he’s a six-ton elephant. He could sneeze and pull out that
chain– but he doesn’t even try. Circus trainers say they can put
a piece of string around that six-ton elephant’s leg and he won’t
break away.
Do you have ‘Elephant Thinking’? Because you have failed at
times, do you not try any more?
Are you limited by ‘Assumed Constraints’?”
An Assumed Constraint — Is a belief you have, based on past
experience, that limits your current and future experiences.
Find the answer here…