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Welcome to this week's useletter
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focussing on your future not my past, a newsletter that's useful.
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There's no subtle way to say this.
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You're underperforming and letting yourself down.
You've developed some really bad habits, that are not only impacting your performance but those around you.
You're caught in a status quo mindset, lacking the inertia required for change.
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I'm not calling you out, or any individual in particular.But at various times in our life these might personally resonate 🙋🏻. They could also refer to the architecture profession. For which, might I suggest, they currently ring true?
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In the last few weeks I've gone down a rabbit hole on how the profession might rethink leadership. Last week I published the first of a two-part post on the value of distributed leadership. Next week I'm posting about how it might be adopted in the architecture profession. One of the things I'm anticipating in trying to lead change is limiting beliefs. Beliefs hindering the profession's willingness to embrace new models.
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Limiting beliefs can impede all our work-life. It's therefore a topic of value to everyone. This week's useletter is on un-limiting our beliefs.
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Limiting beliefs
...keep us aiming low, stopping us from realising our best work and achieving our goals. Rooted in self-identity, world-view and culture, limiting beliefs can persist even when exposed to new knowledge and experiences. And whilst beliefs assist us in navigating the world, they'll also encumber and work against our best interests.
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Challenging limiting beliefs begins by answering questions:
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- What is the purpose and value of my beliefs?
- Is my belief working for or against me and is it helping?
- What would change my mind?
Don't be flippant in your answers, be thoughtful and honest, taking time to understand your answers. Identify the beliefs that no longer serve you or are getting in the way - let them go, this is the most important action. Work on finding new perspectives helping you to challenge, learn and potentially reframe your own beliefs - to unearth new understanding and learning. Allow this new knowledge to recast or change your beliefs - knowledge modifies belief, not the other way around.
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You always have a choice. In this case, it's a choice to limit yourself or challenge yourself. Embrace new thinking. By being open to changing your beliefs it becomes easier to escape limiting beliefs, realising your best work and goals.
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recent useful blog posts...
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All about the advantages of distributed leadership in architectural practice and how to implement and adapt to a more agile model of practice.
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It’s worthwhile considering how a distributed leadership model might better serve the profession. Here’s a look at what it is.
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To evolve a more vigorous architecture practice we need need to introduce new traits as well as breed out the undesirable ones.
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“One must be very naive or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.”
- Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss
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