Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein.

Indeed thinking is the starting point of all actions.  As a manager, supervisor, director or leader, it is important that you improve your people's thinking.  Even more important is to ensure that your people think before they do.

Most people would rather die than think. Many think that they think, when in fact they are just echoing others' thinking.  

Many employees are very good in doing work - executing instructions, following orders and making things happen. The only problem they have is what they do could be all wrong, because they are based on wrong thinking.

For example, most people are still very process-oriented and not outcome-oriented. Like when they come for training, their most important concern is the training process: how the training is conducted, whether notes are given, parking availability and so on. If they can change their thinking from the training process to the training outcome, their results will increase manifolds. 

Another thinking that is causing work issues is productivity thinking. In a bid to be more efficient and productive, many focused on productivity and missed out on production.  You can be very productive, innovative and efficient, but if you have no business, what's the use?

Finally, the most fatal thinking must be conditional thinking.  This is thinking based on conditions, like "I will attend leadership training when I get promoted" or "When I get what I want, I will be happy".  Such thinking not only stiffens your behaviour, it also makes you almost impossible to do anything. For who is ever ready for anything?  We just have to do things and never place any conditions that can limit your potential.

One more thing: adopt Limitless Thinking as the way forward. Limitless means there's simply no limit, it is more than abundance (details in another blog at here)

By Andy Ng, Chief Trainer at Asia Trainers, details of courses at here. Related articles:

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