Getting Your Psychology in Order to Ensure Startup Success
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This document discusses the importance of psychology for business success. It argues that a business owner's psychology directly impacts their business, so improving one's self-awareness, mental discipline, emotional management, behaviors, and interpersonal skills is key. It identifies common forms of self-sabotage like excuses, distractions, and busyness. The document advocates forecasting how one's current habits may affect their future and reprogramming oneself to replace sabotage with effective psychology skills in order to achieve business and personal success. It promotes Peter Charleston's coaching and psychology services to help business owners with this.
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- 1. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Getting Your Peter Charleston Counselling and Coaching Psychologist www.petercharleston.com Psychology in Order To ensure startup success
- 2. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. What stage are you at ? 2 Running your business by the traditional rules and method you were taught, frustrated by how stuck this has made you. 3 Questioning your method but not having a dream 4 Having a dream, creating a new method, but lacking the psychological skills to implement it 5 The dream, the method, and your psychology all start to align 6 Living the dream 1 Business not started, but you want it to really work
- 3. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Business ideas Good ones are everywhere. What matters is whether you have the psychological strength to choose the right idea for you to implement, and follow that good idea through until you succeed. There is no way of being sure of this, but knowing yourself can significantly improve this process.
- 4. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. How important is your psychology ? “ Your business is nothing more than a distinct reflection of who you are. If your thinking is sloppy, your business will be sloppy. If you are disorganised, your business will be disorganised. So if your business is to change, you must change first. ” Michael E Gerber, The Emyth Revisited, 1995, p.5
- 5. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. The startup challenge Everything you do affects the business. You can’t hide all your faults when serving others. The business tests your abilities on a daily basis, and your level development determines how you respond. You don’t know what you will earn next week. The pressure is on, every mistake or delay costs money and time. This is why most people stay an employee their whole career.
- 6. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. How important is your psychology ? “ Rule your mind or it will rule you. ” Horace, Roman Poet, 1st Century B.C.
- 7. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. How much time do you spend strengthening your psychology ? “ I never got around to reading that book on Success you recommended. “ “ If only I had studied better at school. ” “ I just haven’t had time for self reflection. ” The success phone is ringing, can you hear it ? Will you answer the call ?
- 8. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Forms of self sabotage Self Awareness — blind spots, denial, unwillingness Mental — self criticism, pessimism, self blame, excuses Emotional — aggression, guilt, moodiness, resentment, hurt Behavioural — procrastination, distractions, risky behaviour, doing something at the last minute, rushed decisions, laziness Interpersonal — not informing others, habitual lying, overly competitive, dishonesty
- 9. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Forecast your future By predicting the pain you could be in, you might change now. If you multiply what you are doing to yourself now by ten years, then you can predict in ten years time the consequences of not changing your current habits and work situation.
- 10. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. What Life you want to create? Life of Dissatisfaction Seeking pleasure Avoiding pain Life of Satisfaction Delaying pleasure Confronting pain (& your psychology) (& growing your psychology)
- 11. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Psychology skills for startups 3. Emotions management, coping and resilience 2. Mental discipline, attitude, quality decision making 1. Self knowledge, insight, purpose, and the courage to express it 4. Effective behavioural habits 5. Interpersonal competence
- 12. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Self Sabotage: Behavioural component — busyness Humans have never had so much time. In the last century Westerners added 25 years to their life expectancy. Yet, the way we organise our lives commonly represents, “A desperate rush, as if driven by the threat that time will leave us behind.” John Ralston Saul. And yet our inactivity has increased. Spending large amounts of time on things that don’t matter is one of the most common forms of self sabotage.
- 13. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Self awareness component — distractions The average time Australians spend each week watching television is 21 hours and 48 minutes. They also spend on average 9 hours and 24 minutes on the Internet. As a result our communication skills are less than optimal. We lose the skill of connecting with others.
- 14. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Mental component— excuses Think of all the excuses you make and ways you justify why you haven’t reached your goals. How do you let yourself off the hook ? Excuses help us avoid our fears.
- 15. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. The ego problems All the problems are EGO problems. And your fragile ego is hungry for things you don’t really need and are not useful.
- 16. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. Reprogramming yourself If it’s you who is getting in your own way, are you willing to do whatever it takes to change, in order to achieve success in your business and happiness in your life ? This means confronting and defeating your sabotage, and replacing it with effective psychological skills. Your whole being can be redirected towards success and happiness rather than struggle and suffering. You just need a good enough reason to improve, or else change does not occur.
- 17. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. My services 1 to 1 business owner coaching (live and online) Executive coaching Team coaching www.petercharleston.com https://au.linkedin.com/in/petercharleston. Psychology for Success Course Business development consulting
- 18. © Copyright 2015 Peter Charleston. All rights reserved. My Practical Psychology for Business Success Course Module 1 - Gaining Insight Module 2 - Building Mental Strength Module 3 - Building Emotional Strength Module 4 - Building Behavioural Strength Module 5 - Improving Interpersonal Skills Module 6 - Sustaining Positive Momentum Providing you with the vital intangible business tools to help you succeed.