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We’ve all experienced it at some time in our life. Feeling like we’re not good enough, like we’ll be found out or like we’re out of our depth. Damn you imposter syndrome. She sure can hit hard, especially for us women. It’s so common that I included a question in my Cards for Uniqueness pack asking “When have you ever felt or acted like an imposter?”
Are you over last year already but not sure how to make sure this year is your best yet? I have just one tip for you. Begin with gratitude. Gratitude is an immensely powerful force that can expand your happiness, create loving relationships, and even improve your health. Many scientific studies, including research by renowned psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, have found that people who consciously focus on gratitude experience greater emotional well-being and physical health than those who don’t.
It began with a feeling, then a sign, a nudge and then a book. A signal to change, to slow down, to breathe more deeply and to go within. At first I hesitated. Unsure, confused. It was so against my normal way, my DNA. Or so I thought. A typical A type personality I had spent the larger part of my life pushing, planning, achieving, driving. It felt good to check off the to do list, to say I was busy and to be productive. But something over the past few years had been shifting, silently quietly recalibrating, like the sand does under the power of a wave.
While the world’s workplace has been going through extraordinary and often radical change, the practice of management and day to day business has been stuck in time warp. New workers – especially younger generations – want their work to have meaning, flexibility, fun oh and they don’t want to be told what to do by command-and-control bosses. They want a manager to guide and coach them, to invite them to share their talents, to speak in their language and to inspire them to be more.
Would you send a text to your children in the next room and ask them - "How do you think I'd rate so far as a parent? Are you planning to stay or leave?" No? Well why would you do it to your staff?
I just came out of a mentoring session with my mentor Linda Hutchings what a great reminder it was to take my own medicine and keep it clean by making things simple. Perhaps like me you're a multi-passionate entrepreneur or leader who has 50 business ideas a day and struggles to decide which one to implement first. As I talked to Linda about some of my latest ideas of launching a new podcast, relaunching a group coaching program, beginning writing another book (I have two underway already), I began to hear the folly of my thoughts. Yep that's right, I was eating my own vomit.