Do you own what you know?
How many times have you been sitting at a workshop or training and you think – I could be teaching this or I was teaching this ten years ago.
Are you wanting to make a big impact? Do you know your chosen career, topic, business inside and out. You’ve invested the time to really learn it, and you may know it better than most? Is that doubt creeping in that stops you from really playing big?
I know the feeling. A couple years ago it became very clear to me that I had a pattern of giving up my power to people that I thought knew more than I did. Then I would be disappointed when I realized they didn’t. I didn’t own what I knew! I didn’t give myself credit for the 25+ years I had spent researching, studying, living, and mastering my craft.
A lot of women do this. Some of you are hiding in offices, hiding behind getting ready to get ready, thinking you need to know more, or you don’t want to put it out there until you know for sure it’s great.
The reality is you never know until you get your work out into the world and let people see it, and let them see you. Feedback will help you learn how to be even more effective and create bigger results.
Being seen can be scary. Yes, it definitely sits on the edge of your comfort zone.
I work with my clients on this all the time.
I also know that the women I work with know their stuff. They are some of the top people in their field.
I also know, you know more than you think you do. I know you have taken the time to really learn your craft.
It’s time for you to be seen and make a difference.
It’s time for you to own how good you are, how much you do know about your craft. Own your experiences that have brought you to this point, and trust if you put it out there and be seen, you’ll touch the people you’re destined to touch.
You may say, “That sounds great, Lauri, but how am I supposed to do that?”
Try taking these 5 easy steps to get started:
- Decide to go all in – quit sitting in the safe zone and hiding.
- Play with sitting on the edge of your comfort zone: You don’t have to throw yourself over the edge. Just sit on the edge. The edge of your comfort zone is where all the magic happens.
- Be willing to be vulnerable – I know that just made you cringe but it’s in showing our vulnerability that connects us. It’s the place that someone see’s that we are all more alike than we are different.
- Be willing to experiment. We never know if something is going to work until we put it out there and see what happens.
- Learn to love all feedback. It’s great to get a lot of positive feedback but it doesn’t always help you refine your work so that you keep getting better and better. You find out what people really want.
You’ve got this. Remember people who are looking for the type of work you do haven’t spent the time, energy, and money, learning all you have learned. They want to learn what you know.
Trust yourself, and trust what you know and how good you are at what you do!