The Village Mindset Trap: Recent Episodes
Matthew Maila
Is your default self-identity holding you back from achieving the life results you keep seeking? For expertise-focused service professionals — founders, entreprenuers, consultants, advisors, coaches, every day people and subject matter experts, your self-identity underpines how YOU show up and the results YOU achieve. Self-identity is the lense through which humans experience the world and make sense of themselves in this world. More importanlty, self-identity is about choosing who you are as a person and what you may want to become. The Village Mindset Trap is THE self identity rebuilding podcast for professional service-based entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and founders to become more self assured, create more authority in their lives and re-build personal identies to grow your their expertise-based businesses. Everday, identity coach and keynote speaker Matthew T Maila shares inspirational real life stories, showcases expert guests, and gives actionable strategies to re-define your identity, increase your results, and build your dream future by making an impact showing up as your best most authentic self. The the future you envision for yourself already exists. Are willing to embrace it?
When teams in volunteer organisations aren’t succeeding, it’s because their leaders are failing to do these five things:1 - Set and Achieve Goals2 - Solve Problems and Make Decisions3 - Prioritise and Stay Focused4 - Believe and Inspire Others to Believe5 - Perform and Get ResultsAs the team leader, everything is within your zone of influence. The buck starts and stops with you.
In this episode, I am going to be sharing with you my reflective lesson on leadership. This reflective lesson is the application of military principles in a volunteer organisation. The military principle is that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
How do you break free from the identity that is holding you back from living out your most authentic self?
That is the question we address in this podcast
Our “need to know” can become the foundation or priority for every choice that we make. In fact, our search for certainty affects how we face life, approach work, and maintain relationships. If we can find the courage to face the unknown, we can “mind” our futures more gently.
Having a vision provides a sense of purpose and direction for your life. Your vision will help you define your short and long-term goals, and guide the decisions you make along the way.
Becoming influential in your social sphere is key to the opportunities that you have access to in your life.
Establishing priorities is necessary in order to complete everything that needs to be done. Prioritization is important because it with allow you to give your attention to tasks that are important and urgent so that you can later focus on lower priority tasks.If you do not take the time to prioritize, then you will have trouble getting things done on time, stress about how you will finish everything on your to-do list, and not be productive.
It's easy to get caught up in negative self-talk. It's also human nature to take your success for granted and even doubt yourself when times are tough in life or at work. That's why finding ways to actively and consistently believe in your potential are so important.
As humans, we have a tendency for wanting to control the outcomes and events in one's life. Being overly controlling of outcomes, like being overly controlling of others, lowers happiness levels for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, its best to just let life go. Let life take its course...
Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what we receive. With gratitude, we acknowledge the goodness in our lives. Gratitude helps us feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.
A common human challenge is taking responsibility for problem. Many times, rather than accepting a problem, we spend more energy fighting it than would be needed to solve it. Problems are much easier dealt with when we accept the role we play in the problem.
Live your life in remembrance of the struggles that you have overcame. You've conquered it once, you can do it again.
You are responsible for bringing your ideas to life. Embrace your creative power and take control of it.
Lack of confidence kills more dreams than lack of ability. Confront self-doubt and turn those mental blocks into building blocks.
Personal Sovereignty can be seen as both a rebellious response to a disagreeable dominant culture, and interestingly, the act of removing oneself from a binary code of good and/or evil.
What does it mean to be intentional? It means you have a clear purpose and are intentional about taking action on the thoughts and feelings that are most important to you. When you have an intentional focus, you choose to live and create a life that has a clear purpose and is meaningful and exciting to you.
We all believe that we are the golden goose. You’re not special, you’re not exceptional. The sweetest joys of life then come only with the recognition that you're not special because everyone is
What is your conscience? What purpose does it serve? Is it always a safe and reliable guide? There can come a time in our lives where the conscience hardens to the point where it no longer feels. Find out more in todays episode.