Colin Gautrey

No Time to Lose

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Two common problems conspire to thwart potential.

Indecision

Getting stuck wondering which course of action is the best one to take. The more options you have, the more difficult this becomes.

The reasons for the indecision can include fear, lack of confidence, incompetence, emotions, ignorance, family - to name but a few.

Often, this indecisiveness can be prolonged, habitual and, a mighty convenient excuse!

Is it not beholden to us all to make maximum use of our talents and capabilities, with whatever time we have? Indecisiveness is wasteful, self-indulgent and a scandalous loss to the world.

Quite simply, you have no time to lose. Read More

The Road to Self-Reliance

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According to Adlerian Psychology, the journey from childhood to adulthood is the path to self-reliance. If you do not have a high degree of self-reliance, have you honestly achieved maturity? Children are reliant on others. Very young children, heavily dependent. Older children, much less so. Yet, even as we mature and drive forward in the grown-up world, the habits of dependence linger. To a large extent, because it is convenient to the powers that be, who have constructed a society of dependency. Dependency is a balance of power, with one party under the control of the other, to a certain degree. Read More

Confidence

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Several things need to be borne in mind when it comes to confidence.
  • Lack of confidence, when noticed by others, creates wariness - "Why is this person lacking confidence, do they not believe what they are saying or asking me to do?"
  • Low confidence undermines competence. You have the skills and capability, but your internal dialogue mutes your performance.
  • Feeling a lack of confidence signals an amazing opportunity - you're right on the cusp of learning something new, and venturing where you've never been before.
  • Fantasies about what others think is a common cause, and while somewhat valid, is usually massively exaggerated.
  • Everyone, yes everyone, will feel a lack of confidence many times in their careers/lives - it's natural and part of the learning process. The problem is when you allow it to paralyse your action.
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Seven Rules to Leverage Your MBA

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As the proud holder of an MBA, are you happy with the return you are making on it? You probably spent a huge amount of time and energy on your studies. Not to mention, blood, sweat and tears. If, like me, you also had a full-time job, and a family, you will have worked late into the night, and over the weekends, reading all those papers and completing the assignments. The early joy and pride of attaining the award soon fades and the reality begins to bite – was it worth it? Read More

Funambulism for Life

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Setting your vision for a new life or career is mission critical and often quite hard to do. Yet, even when the vision is clear, actually making substantial progress is somewhat tricky, often because people lack the skills of mental and emotional funambulism - or tightrope walking. I've found this in my own life and career. Get an exciting vision, get all revved up and taking action, yet somehow, the old life, the old way of being, keeps you anchored to yesterday. Read More

Oomph

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Oomph is an interesting word.

To me, it means people have something about them, some special quality that gets them noticed, that creates a huge impact. 

They have energy, dynamism, determination to get done what they need to get done. 

They have that definiteness, a purpose that they really know what they're driving for, and they're willing to back everything, to put everything on achieving that objective.  Read More

Observing Influence

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Difficult skills to master require a decent amount of investment - of time, energy, blood, sweat and tears. Influence is just one of those that requires a big investment on many of these fronts.

While you can learn a great deal from books and articles, nothing quite works as well as learning through observation. However, passive observation is slow and of variable quality.

When it comes to learning influence through observation, some questions will help give you structure and speed up the process.

For instance: Read More

Attitude

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Be very careful with the attitude you adopt when you go into action. Attitude begets behaviour at the subtlest of levels.

If you hold a negative attitude, no matter how much you attempt to cover it up, it will show through, if only at a subconscious level.

People will pick up on it. Even if they cannot put their finger on it, they will know something is wrong. But, what?

Since you are hiding how you re really thinking and feeling from them, they will most likely guess what is the matter rather than asking you point blank. Read More

Positive Politics

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If you’re like most people, you will tend to shy away from conflict and things you don’t like. 

When you don’t like the politics, you’ll sky away from that too.

And that my friend, is a big problem - especially if you want to make progress with other people, because it is all about the politics. Read More

The Bigger Picture Mindset

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Far too many people are rooted to their own position, their own job, their own immediate vicinity when they're thinking about the world. 

Rightly so, because they've got a job to do. They've got to focus in on what they need to deliver satisfaction to their immediate stakeholders.

Yet this is missing a major opportunity to step up to a higher level of thinking. Read More

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