Confidence

Lack of confidence can cause us to do some crazy things:

Some people don’t show up on the first day of a new job because they’re sure they’ll “screw up.” Some people blow the interview because they’re so sure that someone better has already interviewed for the job, and they crumble. Some people don’t even apply for the job because they don’t see themselves as the “ideal” candidate, as if one exists. Sometimes we worry that we aren’t “enough” or that we’re “too much.”

If this sounds familiar, just know that the only person you EVER compete against in any aspect in your life, work included, is you.

And I’ll let you in on a little secret: It’s been my observation that often many of the people best qualified for the job too often fall in one of those top three scenarios. So the next time you have that pang of self-doubt, maybe you’ll be a bit more generous with yourself. Maybe instead of beating yourself up and “no showing” the job or freezing up at the interview or think you shouldn’t apply, you’ll consider that you may have those feeling because you really are a candidate of merit and will let that value shine. 

Once we realize that we are acceptable, very acceptable, we’ll realize that we can do more than we ever dreamed possible. After all, you are the answer you have been seeking.

To our success,

Rita

It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself.

It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable.

It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.

For you cannot live in someone else.

You cannot find yourself in someone else.

You cannot be given a life by someone else.

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

To the question of your life, you are the only answer.

To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

~ Jo Coudert