Women Consultants, Are You Trying To Be Someone You’re Not?

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I love singing. My natural pitch is alto, maybe mezzo soprano but because so many women are sopranos I once made it a personal challenge to ‘become a soprano’. 

With daily practice I was able to hit a top A. When I realised you could often get the same piece in different transpositions for different pitched voices it was a major face-palm moment for me.

Why was I forcing myself to be a soprano, when the alto key was so much more natural for me to sing, and enjoy singing?

We are surrounded by messages about who we should be and how we should act every day. It’s easy to start thinking that your personality needs to shift so you are more like the images you see on social media. And to get competitive. You see other people doing things and aspire to do them just as well. That’s how it was with me and the sopranos. I felt I ‘should’ sing like them.

But what this story reminds me of, and why I am telling it to you, is I do best at everything when I’m being myself. I’m a creator. I’m also a starter, not a finisher.  I have ideas all the time and I love starting new projects but my biggest constraint is time and I constantly underestimate how much time something will take. 

I have learned to embrace those things and use them in my business. Sometimes as women we can feel we need to be good at everything, rather than appreciating that we have natural talents and should go all in on those and ask for help with things which are not our strong suit.

There are key activities in my business that ONLY I can do. If I was to spend my time trying to do other tasks because I felt I ‘should’ or work in a way which doesn’t chime with my natural tendencies, it would be a waste of time and a waste of my potential. 

As the CEO of your consulting business, you make the rules. You can do things your way. You decide what matters. Be yourself. 

Let me know in the comments, how can you challenge yourself to get even just 1% more comfortable with who you really are as a person?

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