Letting Go of Your Past
Posted on February 24, 2023 by Craig A Taylor, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
If you are holding on to your past instead of focusing on the present and future, it will negatively impact your team!
When you are a leader, you have an entire team of people working alongside you who depend on you and look to you for inspiration. In this situation, if you are holding on to your past instead of focusing on the present and future, it will negatively impact your team.
We all face mistakes, failures, and negative occurrences in our lives; and sometimes we may find it difficult to move past them and effectively enter into the future. This is natural, and very common. However, as a leader, it is vital to develop strategies to counter this tendency. If you don’t, then you will continue to drag your feet through life and your team will consequently be discouraged from any innovation and growth. This way, your effectiveness as a leader, and your ability to be a guiding light for your team members will diminish.
To make sure that does not happen, here are a few things you can work on,
Understand your mistakes:
Make an effort to comprehend why the mistake was made and how it affected you and your personal or professional life. Understanding the mistake will help you let go of it.
Take time to grieve:
You are a human and sooner or later, you will need time to grieve what you have lost or failed at.
Derive lessons from the past:
If you turn every failure into something to learn, you will never feel like your time has been wasted.
You must make sure that as a leader, you are confident and earnest about the future, not wary of it.
