Michelle Crawford on How Changing Your Mindset Can Make You Money

Author: Jade Green
Published: Sun 20 Dec 2020
Episode Link: https://shows.acast.com/barrelsandbusiness/episodes/michelle-crawford-on-how-changing-your-mindset-can-make-you-

Modern businesses are losing their humanity. After seeing the world and meeting people from all walks of life, Michelle Crawford chose to dedicate her life to helping businesses in Australia become more human in their operation and culture. A Chief Conversationalist for over 20 years, Michelle is unashamedly obsessed about creating a positive social impact, social experiments and the consilience of theory and practice.

Today's episode is about getting your ass off the fence! Michelle helps people gain greater clarity around what's within their circle of control. As the amazing brain behind Being More Human, she provides tools and mindset models that work across all levels and all employees to achieve organizational success and make life at work more meaningful.

So many of us aren't productive at work. We are passengers in our lives. Imagine the potential if more of us tapped into our motivators. What could we, as individuals and as teams, achieve? As you'll hear from Michelle, every single one of us has the capability to be superhuman. Yes, YOU do.

But first, you have to embrace your humanity. To Michelle, being more human is about being more of who you were when you were born–compassionate, grateful, and inquisitive. We need to be okay with our humanity as a professional, to embrace vulnerability and authenticity.

We all know it doesn't matter what the challenge is, whether it's approaching a bomb or getting your startup off the ground, having the right mindset is so key. Michelle's book Being More Human shows how the right mindset boosts productivity–and revenue.

Michelle also dives into what self-leadership is. Surfers will be empowered to learn there's a key quality that exceptional leaders have in common, and we've got it in spades.

So sit back and get ready to cover a lot of ground. We'll drop into self-leadership principles, being self-aware, vulnerable, authentic, having the right mindset, and what it means to be superhuman. This episode will transform the way you think about people and business.

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Key points

10:14: How Michelle created the Superhuman Summit and marketed it using her network and the speakers' networks

16:27: The idea of self-leadership and what exceptional leaders have in common. What exercise and routine say about self-leadership.

23:35: The keys to self-leadership may surprise you: sleep, exercise, and food; the importance of habit stacking and morning/night routines

27:37: Programming your mind for success; the energy you put into your mind is what you get out

33:42: Coaching your team for self-leadership. Find the entry point, the thing in their life they want to do better. Work self-leadership around that.

40:49: Advice for small businesses on trying to up their awareness and leadership; self-actualizing and its power for CEOs and the companies they run.

46:32: Where does vulnerability fit into leadership and teams? Be willing to accept your shit; you have to, or you can't grow.

51:03: Reflection questions and how you don't have to relive the trauma to process it. You can move it without re-traumatizing it. Avoid the suffering survivor mindset.

54:25: Michelle's book Be More Human and how she came about writing a mindset book; how so many people are in the passenger mindset

1:05:16: Investing in your employees' personal happiness is a way to make them and your team more productive and profitable

1:09:10: Three tips Michelle would tell business owners about growing their teams and employees

Key takeaways & quotes

What does it mean to be superhuman? We are all superhumans in the making. We have so much untapped potential. Imagine what we could do if we harnessed just a small fraction more of that energy.
Do you know what the single most important behavior is of exceptional leaders? Exercising every day. Why? Because you have discipline in your life.
Are you getting enough sleep? So many people are sleep deprived, and sleep deprivation is a form of torture. How can you know if you're making the best decision or having the right conversations unless you are well-rested?
"You can either program your mind in a way that's useful, constructive, healthy, and functioning, or you can program your mind in a way that's unhelpful, un-useful, and destructive."
Learn how you are motivated. Is it from fear? That kind of motivation isn't sustainable. Take steps to change your motivation, so it becomes a life-long habit.
"If you're not into self-awareness, you're not into human behavior, you're not into human potential. Then you never ever go in and reap the rewards of the kinds of results that we're talking about."
"The leader has to grow and develop and evolve in order for the business to do the same thing."
"One of the biggest challenges that we have in our society is not only do people not know how to be vulnerable with the person sitting beside them; they don't even know how to be vulnerable with themselves."
"The majority of us are either denying the fact we have any shit in the first place or pretending, or we're pointing the finger at the other person because the other person's shit pile is higher than mine. And we're not owning our own shit quite literally."
"There's no past and there's no future. There's only the now. And if you really take the fact that there's only the now to heart, then the only possibility that we have to be incredible humans is to maximize every single moment that we're engaged in, in our lives."

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