Are you chasing project after project, buying course after course, reading blog after blog and finding yourself feeling overwhelmed and wiped out with little to show for all that effort?
If you know anything about Belbin profiling it may be you aren’t a ‘Completer Finisher’ and you need to work on these qualities. If you have completed a DISC analysis it may be you have a high ‘Influencer’ profile and this makes you more likely to want the excitement of a new project, rather than the rewards of a completed one.
Having this self-awareness is a step in the right direction of getting your ‘Secret Squirrel’ under control.
So what happens when ‘SS’ is in full performance mode?
First, you’ll find it hard to complete what you started. You’ll be excited at the beginning, but if the results aren’t coming quickly you’ll switch to a new project, potentially before you’ve managed to reap the rewards of your efforts.
Secondly, you may simply start executing an idea with no clear direction or planning and no idea on the follow through. This can sometimes work, but more often than not you will have limited results and simply change direction, as you believe it isn’t working, and want to move on.
Thirdly, you’ll be spending this, that and the other on technological tools or courses to fill an ‘undefined’ knowledge gap or simply in the excitement of the latest ‘thing’ because everyone else has one and it looks really exciting. Yes, the dreaded FOMO!! Or even worse, you fill the gap with the purchasing, because you feel disappointed in your lack of results and buying something makes you feel like you are doing something to change things.
Finally (but this list could go on!), you end up confusing yourself. Wondering how you got where you did and why and what the heck needs to happen now.
Sound familiar? Secret Squirrel can actually be quite a dangerous little rodent, if not controlled in your life and business.
So, how do you do that?