Episode 826: Chasing perfection, with Sue Hawkes
Sue Hawkes helps CEOs and their leadership teams succeed. As a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and globally recognized, award-winning seminar leader, she brings over 25-years of experience to her clients. She is CEO of YESS!, founder of Ideal Coaching international, Inc., and has designed and delivered programs for thousands of people. Her most recent book, Chasing Perfection: Shatter the Illusion, Minimize Self-Doubt, & Maximize Success, is available now.
What you\u2019ll learn about in this episode:- Why Sue believes you\u2019re either learning or winning in business and what that means in the grand scale of things.
- Overcoming imposter syndrome and why it\u2019s so important to do just that.
- Why Sue believes it\u2019s important for business owners to get what they want out of their businesses rather than feeling chained to their businesses. Hint! It can cause resentment toward the business. Even leading to fantasies of being employed.
- The importance of being self-aware and understand what we\u2019re not good at, as entrepreneurs because that\u2019s the only way we\u2019re going to solve the problems we create.
- Why Sue decided on this title for her book: Chasing Perfection: Shatter the Illusion, Minimize Self-Doubt & Maximize Success.
- The fact that nearly 80 percent of leaders have moments of excruciating self-doubt. It\u2019s normal. It may even be essential for good leadership. The ones who never experience it are the one\u2019s Sue believes you need to worry about.
- Why Sue believes continuous self-improvement leads to increased freedom and internal and unshakeable excellence for you as a leader.
- The reason Sue designed her book to be read in segments and why that matters so much for her intended audience. Plus, Sue\u2019s instructions for reading her book.
- How \u201cunkind wonderful\u201d words are sometimes the perfect words to hear. Especially when they\u2019re as painful as they are insightful.
- Sue\u2019s belief that every problem is an opportunity for growth. All you need is to figure out how to flip it upside down and why it\u2019s important to be on the front of the pack, leading the pack rather than reacting.
- Sue\u2019s advice to entrepreneurs everywhere, about not giving up because people always seem to quit just before amazing things happen.