A Valuable Lesson Learned From Impostor Syndrome

I felt like an impostor when I was writing my 1st book.

I felt like an impostor when I was practicing for my TEDx.

I felt like an impostor when I launched my coaching business.

Oh, and I often feel like an impostor today:

As I explore my next three books (2 of them make me wickedly uncomfortable.)

Develop a consulting business. (Who the hell am I?)

Delivering keynotes. (Do I deserve to be here?)

It’s a crappy feeling until I reframe it.

Then, it becomes an ingredient in the juice that fuels me.

Every single one of the items I listed above required me, and still requires me, to push the boundaries of what I believe I’m capable of.

Which is often terrifying.

I don’t know what I’m doing; uncertainty lurks around every corner, and I’m not great at it in the beginning.

But what I’ve learned from publishing the 1st book, delivering the TEDx and keynotes, and launching the coaching business is this:

The more impostor syndrome screams at me to stop what I’m doing and return to the comfy sofa of the status quo, the more I know my soul is being called to do what I’m…