Who am I to be a Coach?
Who am I to be an Entrepreneur?
Who am I to be………..(insert your role)?
This has been an underlying theme behind most of my coaching conversations this past month. Including a recent conversation with myself – as I was hosting The Breakthrough Weekend – the first of its kind 3 day intensive designed to create shifts in how gamechanging entrepreneurs think about their life and business.
In the room was an entrepreneur who is reimagining the future of education, another who is reimagining the future of sustainable tourism and spaces, and a DJ who is creating music inspired by his own flow of life.
As I sat there in that room filled with some of the most brilliant, interesting people I know, I noticed my mind asking, “Who are you to create breakthroughs for this group of brilliant people? WTF am I doing here?”
As this voice crept in, I found my energy shifting and my level of presence and awareness dropping. And in that moment, I had to pause to really feel and process what was really happening inside me.
Some call this the voice of self doubt. Others refer to it as Impostor Syndrome.
And most people think that successful leaders and high achievers never experience this feeling of being an Impostor. But the truth is high achievers experience it more regularly than most others.
When you experience Impostor Syndrome, you feel like everything you have achieved is a result of luck, good timing or both. And that one day everyone will find out that it’s all BS.
At the back of your head is the fear, “What if everyone finds out that you don’t feel fully know what you are doing? Or that you don’t have it all figured it?”
As I sat there in the awareness of this floating inside me, I realized I was falling into the same myths and traps that I had coached some of the most high achieving entrepreneurs I know to avoid.
In this newsletter, I am breaking down 3 big myths about Impostor Syndrome that I had to break out of in that moment. My hope is that this post helps you deal with your inner impostor or to coach your best clients to move past it.
