Confidence to Lead Comes From You
How many hours a day do you spend patting yourself on the back for what you’ve accomplished, acknowledging your ability to make smart decisions based on all that great experience, and imagining how well you will meet any challenge that life throws at you?
In contrast, how many hours a day do you spend imagining all the ways your latest project could go sideways, listing all of the skills and experience you don’t have, and doubting that you are capable of reaching your goals.
I’d bet money that you spend a lot more time on the latter, giving barely (if any) thought to the former. And that just makes me crazy!
There may be 101 reasons why we lack confidence and continuously limit our own potential, from having it educated out of us (Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk is a must-see) to letting unexamined, instinctive fear hold us back. But there are 0 reasons to keep thinking that way.
Staying in that frame of mind, only keeps you stuck and paralyzed. Einstein had it right, if you want the outcome to be different you need to change the approach.
In pursuit of that, I challenge you to spend at least as much time every single day focused on what makes you amazing as you do on diminishing your value.
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Sherrie Cameron said,
June 22, 2010 @ 10:21 pm
If Sir Ken Robinson’s talk inspires you then you absolutely MUST read Daniel H. Pink’s “A Whole New Mind”.
liz gaige said,
June 23, 2010 @ 8:56 am
I have that book on my bedside table, I just haven’t gotten to it yet. If it’s as inspiring as Sir Ken Robinson is, I must make it my next read! Thanks for the tip.
Gillian Berry said,
June 23, 2010 @ 1:23 pm
beautifully said, Liz!! Thank you for this reminder – so powerful.
I’m reading Sir Ken Robinson’s book, “The Element” – excellent!!