You don’t have a business problem, nobody does!

[You don’t have a business problem, nobody does]

You don’t have a fitness problem, health problem, relationship problem, energy problem or a leadership problem either.

Not really.

I learned this 15 years ago working with business leaders helping them to get fit, remove back pain and increase their energy.

The problem is NEVER the problem.

A new client would come into my studio and they’d have a set of goals that they had struggled to achieve alone, often for years. Few peoples first resort is to invest in my 1-2-1 services.

Ironically these people also had a large part of the solution to that if implemented would have had them in a MUCH better position than they were when they came to me.

They knew they needed to eat more real food, they knew they needed a calorie deficit, they knew they needed to get plenty of water and sleep and they knew they needed to get regular exercise.

Much in the same way most people in business know that there are a set of simple ingredients that must be present in order to be successful.

The problem WASN’T that they didn’t know WHAT to do…

The problem was that they weren’t consistently doing the things they need to do.

Digging a little deeper and even that wasn’t the problem.

The problem was procrastination, or worrying about what people might think if they weren’t in the office, or adapting their social life, or having a difficult conversation with their partner, or creating a new approach to management that didn’t have them constantly serving other peoples agendas or, or, or…

BUT even those things weren’t the problem.

The problem was their underlying values, beliefs, and principles that guided their current actions were making the new behaviours they needed to adopt in order to achieve their goals all but impossible to be consistent with.

The truth is that the problem is NEVER the problem yet we spend so much time trying to force actions, override or circumnavigate our current values, beliefs and principles that we end up doing all sorts of things that take us in the exact opposite direction of where we say we want to go all the while getting more tired, overwhelm, stressed and frustrated.

The simple truth is that it is our brains that determine our actions and so it is our brains that we need to work on if we are the consistently overcome the challenges in front of us.

The question we keep asking ourselves is, what do I need to DO in or to be successful?

The question we should be asking is, what do I need to BE in order to do the things I need to do?

It’s when we ask that question that we get down to the truth of what is holding us back.

Our current mental map of the world.