The mission of the KTS Success Factor® Podcast for Women is to bring proven ideas female business leaders can use to increase their ability to achieve big goals and become happy, successful, and understood at work. All this in 25 minutes or less. Sarah E. Brown, Ph.D. is an expert on personalizing work to the unique interests, strengths, and needs of the workforce. A former Managing Director at Accenture, she is now on a mission to reach 250,000 women with knowledge of their unique gifts and the tools to be happy, successful and understood at work.
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Defining Your Own Success Story with Paola Knecht
Success doesn’t have a specific shape, size, or form. We all have our own definition of success, but oftentimes, we get swayed by what we see on social media. It can unconsciously influence us.
So how can you avoid this hazard, and really commit to the life you’ve always envisioned for yourself?
Paola Knecht is a certified leadership, transformational, and self-development coach. She is the founder of My Mindpower Coaching & Consulting and author of the new book, The Success Mindset: Take Back the Leadership of your Mind.
In this episode, Paola talks about what success is and how we can shift our definition of success to something that we are passionate about instead of what we see from others.
What you will learn from this episode:
- Find out how you can define your own success story instead of letting others define it
- Learn powerful questions you can reflect on that can help you know more about what you really want
- Understand the importance of having a vision in defining your own success
“To really reach something you want, it is not enough to just recognize you're good at something, you have to work at it.”
- Paola Knecht
Valuable Free Resource:
- How to set straight your vision and take back your life in order to write the success story you’ve always wanted to achieve: https://paolaknecht.lpages.co/the-success-mindset/
Topics Covered:
01:45 - To discover the meaning of your life, and your vision and something that goes beyond the race of accumulating things: Paola’s definition of what success really is
02:40 - Discovering the meaning of life and avoid losing the essence of yourself by looking inward instead of outward
03:44 - Paola explains why and how social media and other’s lifestyle contributes greatly to our own definition and understanding of success
06:49 - What are the things you love about yourself, your life and what do you love doing: Questions you can reflect on to define a vision of your life
08:13 - Not believing that you can make it: The biggest obstacle that gets in our way when making our goals a reality
09:26 - Paola shares the eighth pillar from her book and why talent alone won’t get you far, hard work will
11:11 - Take a break and some time offline: What you can do to start your journey to self-discovery and make your vision a reality
12:32 - Connect with Paola and see what she has to offer: my-mindpower.com
13:13 - One valuable free resource to help you on the road to self-discovery and take back the leadership of your mind: https://paolaknecht.lpages.co/the-success-mindset/
14:06 - A sprinkle of love and great advice from Paola and her book: You can and have the power to define your success story. And to not let other people tell you what these should look like. You can write your own story and find transcendence in doing it.
Takeaways:
“Success, when I come back to the essence of it, it's really to discover the meaning of your life, to discover your vision, something that goes beyond the race of accumulating things, or following a path that you did not consciously choose for yourself.” - Paola Knecht
“You have to look inward, instead of outward. We are distracted.” - Paola Knecht
“I believe, over time-- all these have a root cause. And I believe one of those is that we spend way too much time comparing ourselves to other lives and not paying enough attention to ourselves first.” - Paola Knecht
“It all starts with really going back to the basics and asking yourself, "What do I really love about my life, about me?” - Paola Knecht
“If I have an awareness about the things I love doing, and they are meaningful for me, then how can I connect that passion with some activity that I enjoy? Or how can I connect that to bring service to others?” - Paola Knecht
“We all have talents and bizarre gifts that come inherited and they are wonderful. And it's also great when we discover them and they can really bring us great surprises.” - Paola Knecht
“It's really about not underrating the value of hard work because that's what really brings you far.” - Paola Knecht
“To take the conscious decision to basically lockout, to take some time offline, and really take more time to discover who you really are, and what you're after.” - Paola Knecht
“If we really want to know ourselves better, we also have to invest time to know ourselves better.” - Paola Knecht
“You have the power to take back your own life. And for this is really to make the conscious decision to go on that journey of self-discovery. You can and have the power to define your success story. And do not let other people tell you what these should look like. You can write your own story and find transcendence in doing it.” - Paola Knecht
Ways to Connect with Paola Knecht:
- Website: https://www.my-mindpower.com/
Ways to Connect with Sarah E. Brown:
- Website: https://www.sarahebrown.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/knowguides
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahebrownphd/