This is Dr. Abiola Salami. As a world-class performance strategist, I understand that any organisation, industry, community, country, or continent that wants to consistently deliver excellence must constantly empower, engage, and recognise the sterling contribution of its women. This is why I have consistently powered a few interventions to support this thinking since 2013, which culminated in The Peak Performing Woman of The Year. Every fortnight on this platform, I will share insights to help women flourish and deliver excellence as career professionals, entrepreneurs, and nation builders.
The post-pandemic world requires a new level of action. The World Economic Forum and the Oliver Wyman Forum report that “women have been hit hard by the harsh conditions of the COVID-
Any woman who wants to constantly deliver peak performance must consciously ensure that she is not her own number one enemy. You should seek to get out of your way as you must always ensure you are not preventing your success. A detailed examination might reveal ways you have been preventing yourself from achieving your desired success. Perhaps certain beliefs have led to some self-limiting attitudes responsible for why you are not making as much money as you desire or, why you are not getting the kind of promotion you deserve or why you are not dating or married to the kind of man that you desire, or why your relationship with your children seems not to be going well.
There could be many reasons you don’t get things done, some of which are outside your control. I agree with that, but instead of focusing on the things you can’t control, let us take some time to focus on the one barrier that you can control – your beliefs.
Dear Peak Performing Woman, as we step into a New Year, overcoming self-limiting beliefs and self-imposed limitations could be the biggest obstacle standing between you and realising your full potential. The worst of all beliefs are self-limiting beliefs. If you believe yourself to be limited in some way, whether this is true, it becomes your reality.
Discoveries in neuroscience reveal that if you believe in a limitation, you will act as if you were deficient in that area of talent or skill. It is not what you say to your world that determines your life; it is what you whisper to yourself in the silence of your thoughts.
Research has shown that there are seven self-limiting beliefs common to women. Over the subsequent five editions, we will look at each of these beliefs and provide guidance to help you and every woman in your circle overcome self-limiting beliefs.
THE SELF-LIMITING BELIEF ABOUT AGE
When you excuse yourself from seizing an opportunity because you think you are too old or too young, you have allowed your age to get in the way of your success. Some women let their age be the barrier to aiming high, dreaming big, and achieving tremendous results in their careers and other aspects of their lives.
Beyond anybody commenting on your age, how often have you whispered to yourself, “I am too old” or “I am too young” to achieve a dream in your heart? Someone once said that no matter how old an average woman is, she thinks she is too old, but for me, you are not an average woman. You are a peak-performing woman.
You would do well always to remember a statement I once heard from a peak-performing woman I admire. Her name is Betty Irabor. Aunty Betty said, “Wherever you are in life, it is up to you to stay put or make a change. Don’t allow age and fear to stop you from becoming the woman you were destined to be.”
In the same vein, I believe that you need to lead your dreams and not be trapped by the limitations of your age. Don’t let age and fear stop you from becoming the woman you were created to be. Yes, your age is your reality, but your dreams are more real than your age. Age is an issue of the mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter, and no matter your age, today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you will ever be.
Again, age is not how old you are; it is how many years of fun and fulfilment you have had. You can still dream and achieve at any age. You can still get married if you so desire. You can still have children if you so desire.
Age is no barrier. It is a limitation you put on your mind by yourself. This same Aunty Betty started Genevieve Magazine at age 45 in 2003. In a few years, the magazine became one of Nigeria’s most-read lifestyle, fashion, and beauty magazines. Uche Pedro started BellaNaija at age 22. BellaNaija grew to become a household name, and the founder was recognised as one of Africa’s 50 Most Powerful Women by Forbes. Susan Boyle, who started singing professionally at age 48, had over 120 million views on her Britain’s Got Talent debut.
I look forward to seeing senior women, not just young people, on talent shows across Africa.
Dear Peak Performing Woman, no matter how old you are now, you are neither too young nor too old to go after what you truly want.
The Peak Performing Woman Project is our vehicle for driving the renewed commitment to empowering, engaging and recognising women in their quest for delivering excellence in a post-pandemic world. The project will equip women to deliver excellence as career professionals, entrepreneurs, social innovators, political office holders and in their personal lives. It will enable more women to live beyond misperceptions, stereotypes and misplaced emotions that could limit the God-given exceptional nature that is within the woman for the development of humanity.
I believe any opportunity for improvement extended to any woman anywhere is an opportunity extended to every human being. Also, any opposition served by any woman based on her gender is an opposition served to every human being everywhere. And every contribution made to womanhood by anybody, anywhere, is a contribution made to the entire human race everywhere.
Join us on this journey.
About Dr. Abiola Salami
Dr. Abiola Salami is the Convener of Dr Abiola Salami International Leadership Bootcamp,The Peak Performer Recognition,The Peak Performing Woman of The Year and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of The Peak PerformerTM. He is the Principal Performance Strategist at CHAMP – a full scale professional services firm trusted by high performing business leaders for providing Executive Coaching, Workforce Development & Advisory Services to improve performance. You can reach him on hello@abiolachamp.com and connect with him @abiolachamp on all social media platforms.
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