Nothing's changed. You're still the best!
Mel Savage
Executive Coach for Pre-Executives | Work with me to become the highly valued leader everyone wants on their team
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Remember when you started out in your career and you thought you were invincible??
You knew you were smart.? You were willing to try anything. You were just happy to be invited to the meeting. You didn’t care if you said something smart.??
You thought you were the best and you were going to achieve great things. You had all the confidence in the world… what do they call that? The confidence of youth?
You know where the confidence of youth comes from??It’s not something that flicks on when you’re 20 and then flicks off at 35.?
The confidence of youth comes from a mindset of possibilities. You’re looking forward to the future and what you're creating.
You’re focused on what you’re becoming and where you’re going.? You’re willing to try stuff.? You don’t sweat the small stuff.?
You’re having a good time. You truly believe you can do anything.
You know what happens when you think you can do anything? You achieve great things.
All of that came from staying open to the possibilities of the future.
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Then at some point in your career, you stopped looking forward to possibilities and started looking backwards.?
You started thinking about what’s not possible and why you can’t do something. You started using your past performance to hold yourself back.
You got afraid of what might happen or go wrong.? You started thinking that maybe you’re not the best after all. You got worried about how much you had to lose.?
The more you focus on what you have to lose, the more unlikely you are to focus on what you could gain.
Your nudge for this week is to allow yourself to focus on possibilities. Remind yourself of how great you are now, and there's still a lot of greatness to come.
Because nothing's changed. You’re still the best.
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