In today’s highly competitive world, changes happen every minute. Living and working in such an environment means trying to stand out by presenting a unique and distinguishable personal brand that sets one apart from others in an overcrowded market. That is only one aspect of the importance of practicing self-leadership. Techsauce speaks to Andrew Bryant, global authority on self-leadership, bestselling author and TEDx speaker, on why self-leadership is a crucial skill and what it takes to be an effective leader and entrepreneur in a multicultural world.

Physiotherapist to motivational speaker 

Andrew started out as a physiotherapist, working with sports teams and athletes, where he quickly realised that success is as much mental as it is physical. He studied various subjects ranging from hypnosis to Chinese medicine in order to help his clients get a competitive edge. After moving to Australia, Andrew kept getting requests from businessmen to coach them on how to become successful using their minds. He decided to teach and speak about his self-leadership methodology because of the impact he had on his clients’ performances on and off the field. To date, Andrew has delivered training to over 150,000 executives in more than 20 countries.

We have autonomy

We often hear people say that they have no say in most matters. Andrew agrees, citing the example of birth and how the moment an infant is born, he or she is given a gender, nationality and race, saying we have been framed. However, he also says that we are our own inhibitors because we often desire to be a better version of ourselves, and yet a part of our brains continues to hold on to the way we currently are. This is where self-leadership comes in. 

Self-leadership is the process by which you influence yourself to achieve your objectives.

We are the key

Self-leadership entails intentionally influencing your thinking, feelings and actions by influencing yourself to achieve your objectives. According to Andrew, doing this will help you overcome the obstacle that is existing identity, which has a status quo that holds you in place and rendered incapable of progress. There are two skills of self-leadership. The first is to stop and step back from the things that trigger you to react, since that means that you control the trigger instead of it controlling you. The second is to consider your intention – what is important to you, your values and your goals. By consciously considering the intentions behind your actions, you can start to live a life of choice.

“Self-leadership is a journey, and the more self-leadership we attain the more successful we become, and the more successful we become, the more self-leadership we need.”

How self-leadership helps everyone

Self-leadership impacts all aspects of your life – health, career and relationships. Self-leaders are self-motivated individuals who take purposeful action and therefore make better entrepreneurs, leaders, team members and people. It is a solution for a volatile, complex and ambiguous world.

Meet Andrew at Techsauce Culture Summit!

Andrew Bryant will be speaking on self-leadership as well as creativity at the Techsauce Culture Summit 2019. The session will highlight how one can become an effective leader by practicing self-leadership and how to develop an innovative and creative work culture. Buy tickets to the event here at http://bit.ly/2oaOG9T