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Is Insecurity Holding You Back?
from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals
My client wanted to apply for a promotion, and he was worried that he didn’t have the skills. He had never done this job before, and he didn’t know if he would know what to do when new obstacles showed up in his path. He thought that he had to know before he started, and he didn’t see that he was made for change. That he was built to adapt to making decisions about new situations that stood in his path.
The inspiration to apply for the promotion showed up and then the doubts and he was prone to pay attention to the doubts. He didn’t know about the truth of what lives inside, what lives inside of all of us, what we are born with, and what we can access when we let the doubt drop away.
This is the diagram of our experience. It is described by Jack Pransky in his book, “Somebody Should Have Told Us”
It starts with a circle in the middle that holds all of the emotions we feel when we are at our best:
When I ask my clients, what do you experience when you are at your best, it is the same…
