Mental Strength Tip #86 – Change Agent and Personal Success

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals begins with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs.

Reaching your personal goals and personal success starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual success coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week.  It is intended to enthuse and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one mental strength tips and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct success coaching questions.  The intention of this virtual success coaching session is for you to write and answer these questions in your success journal and then reflect on them to gain insight on yourself, your dreams and what’s holding you back.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To help you see yourself as a leader and as such as change agent.  One who is never satisfied with the status quo and is always moving toward your personal goals.

The virtual mental strength and success coaching session is to help you realize that you are either moving forward towards your personal success or slipping away from it, there is no standing still.

Let’s Get Started:

A change agent is someone who “alters human capability or organizational systems to achieve a higher degree of output or self actualization.” Beginning with the end in mind, the goal of a change agent is obviously to make changes that stick.

The result of change agent activity is to enable people to do more, or find a new and better perspective on life. Sometimes this latter idea is the foundation for future change which achieves outcomes that were previously not attainable.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• What do you believe is your primary role as a leader and change agent?
• Do you believe it’s more important to be liked or respected?
• Do leaders have to be likable to gain cooperation from those they are leading?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Being a Change Agent:

• A leader’s job is to manage people and keep them happy.
• A good leader’s main role is to retain their people.
• A good leader motivates through cheerleading.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Being a Change Agent:

• A mentally strong leader gets feedback and then makes their decision for the good of the team.
• Great change agents aren’t addicted to being popular.  They prefer it, but they aren’t addicted to it.
• A change agent’s primary function is to being about change.

Outrageous Questions:

• Based on your past results, have you been more interested in being popular or bringing about change?
• Do you lead by consensus?
• Is your leadership style more like a politician campaigning for votes of a football coach focused on winning?

Reflective Questions:

• On a scale of 1-9, 9 being best, how good of a leader are you?
• On a scale of 1-9, 9 being best, how good of a leader would your team say you are?
• Why do you think it’s important for a leader to also be an agent of change?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Many managers have been promoted into their role without ever having led a team.

As a result of being promoted from the field, they often try to maintain the same relationship with the people they were once part of, in order to retain being liked.

My job as your virtual mental strength and personal success coach is to help you get out of your own way and step up to the plate as a true change agent focused on moving your team forward.

Remember this is huge shift in your mindset and will take mental strength and time.

Final Thought

Coaching people to become a real leader is the equivalent of coaching an adolescent into adulthood.

The adult doesn’t have the luxury of putting popularity before personal performance, and is often forced to make tough love decisions.

What I’m suggesting is for you to “grow up” and become a real leader who people will want to follow.

This will take commitment and sacrifice and it will be worth it.

Get started today on becoming a true agent of change and request your Introductory Consultation by going HERE.