If you learn about one thing this year make it this!

George Lee Sye

You may or may not be aware of this – more has been discovered in the last 10 years about performance and human achievement psychology than in the previous 100 years.

You may or may not be aware of this – more has been discovered in the last 10 years about performance and human achievement psychology than in the previous 100 years.

Albert Einstein, Milton Erickson, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were way before their time. They paved a way for us to explore this intriguing topic. They knew something that few realised at the time – most of what happens in our life is driven by our UNCONSCIOUS MINDS.

Who’s driving your car most of the time?

It’s a fact that more than 95 percent of the ‘neural’ activity in your brain is controlled by the unconscious component of your mind. Yep, you got it … that really means LESS than 5 percent is controlled by the conscious mind.  I’m serious!

You don’t have to think about breathing, balancing yourself while walking, moving all of the muscles required to clean your teeth or catch a ball in the air. You don’t even have to think about driving the car. ‘Mmmmm, I don’t remember driving that last 5 kilometres … ooops, my conscious mind must have been elsewhere.’

THINK ABOUT IT – when the unconscious mind does it’s job, the conscious mind is left to focus on important issues at hand at any given moment; issues such as a conversation, typing a sentence, playing a piece of music, answering the phone or coming up with some plan or course of action. But …. this most amazing process can also cause problems for us.

Out of rapport with ourselves – is it possible?

The truth is we struggle to achieve our goals when our unconscious mind is NOT IN RAPPORT with our conscious mind. When you want something, but your beliefs are out of alignment with that, you get what you believe, not that which you consciously want. For example you might WANT to sink that putt on the golf course, but unconsciously you EXPECT to miss it. The expectation is usually met.

How does this related to business or business leadership?

The challenge for leaders today might be viewed in this way. There are so many negative influences in the western environment, the unconscious mind is being conditioned in a way that disempowers or limits most people. People are generally so busy and so focused on engaging in activities driven by demand and deadlines, they inadvertently condition an unconscious pattern of reaction. The result – proaction becomes difficult to do.

Think about this – when do most people do something about their health or their wealth? That’s right, when it’s broken. You’ve only got to look at health and wealth statistics to see that I’m right when I say most people have in many ways conditioned an unconscious pattern of reaction to the demands of work and daily life.

You as a leader are focused on driving improvement and creating growth in your company or part of the business, but your aspirations beyond some average result are proving difficult to achieve.

Why?

My experience is that the weakness of your organisation is the collective limitations of the people in it. Unless the unconscious limitations, or unconscious patterns of thinking of your staff are changed, your aspirations will never be in rapport with the psychology of the people who are there to help you bring those dreams to life.

So what do you do about it?

In one word – education. You have to find out what is taking place right now when it comes to performance enhancement. And if you pursue one course of learning in the next year, choose to LEARN MORE ABOUT THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND, particularly how it behaves and how neural patterns are created and replaced. This information IS AVAILABLE to you, and it is the domain of the most remarkable leaders this century will produce.

Learn this and your effectiveness as a leader will be massively increased, of that I am certain!

Why not join me for a 3-hour session where we discuss this type of content in much more detail – you can view information about that event here.

Don’t have time to go to a course … hmmmm, it’s going to be very hard for you to keep up if that’s the case.

Here’s to your future success.

George Lee Sye