You zag when others zig
You’re not just one thing. Not only a professional, or only a partner, or only a parent. Not only someone who works, or someone who runs, or someone who paints in their free time.
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Confidence: being comfortable with the uncomfortable
Confidence is being able to be with insecurity. Confidence doesn’t mean being perfect, it means being okay with imperfection.
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The inner critic is wrong
Byron Katie has a saying that I love : “Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.” Never is this truer than when it comes to our own critical thoughts about ourselves.
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Growth results from challenging
Leaders and organisations need more “no people” not more “yes people”.
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The power of keeping your word
One of the things most damaging to confidence is breaking our commitment. Whether we’ve given our word to others or ourselves, we are out of integrity when we go back on it, and we know that we are. We know that we’ve just lied to ourselves, and it doesn’t feel good. Not upholding our commitments impacts our confidence negatively often in ways we don’t fully appreciate.
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We can’t find safety in the domain that’s not creating its lack
One of the “lessons” so many of us learn as children is that we are not safe. My own formative introduction to that was through being locked out one evening. I’d been to visit the neighbours and I got home a few minutes later than I was supposed to.
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Making space for what is
So often when we navigate periods of deep change, grief or loss, we are so focused on getting to the other side that we forget the aspect of ourselves that’s grieving. The fear and pain that are an intrinsic part of transitions are so uncomfortable to be with
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Energy of fear vs. energy of fearlessness
In my experience, we are driven by one of two energies in life: the energy of fear or the energy of fearlessness/truth/love. As a coach, one of my main objectives is to help clients move out of the energy of fear and into the energy of fearlessness.
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The unknown is the gateway to the most profound form of knowing
Discernment combined with fear becomes stubbornness. Closemindedness. One result of that is that we get so invested in our limiting beliefs that we, often unbeknownst to us, fight for them.
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Expectations are inherently limiting
When we have an expectation of how something should be, we are not allowing it to be as it is. And the limitation in this is that we prevent ourselves from experiencing something greater than what we’ve experienced already.
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