Getting out of your way.
Guest author Frank Marquardt
More You: Getting Out of Your Own Way
by Frank Marquardt
In my coaching practice, my clients tell me what they want to work on, and I’ll ask, what’s standing in your way? They almost always have a clear answer. It could be a lack of self-trust, or they’re too scattered, or they haven’t taken themselves seriously.
They’ve come to me for help getting out of their own way. They see themself as the problem, but not necessarily as the solution.
I saw similar self-recrimination when I managed teams of content designers at the company now known as Meta. I worked with incredibly talented people. But they were afraid of failing and worried they didn’t belong. They could experience crippling bouts of self-doubt and imposter syndrome. Many tended to say yes to everything asked of them, evenings and weekends be damned. Often, they didn’t realize they needed to drive the conversations that mattered most to them, set boundaries that enabled them to do their best work, or create solutions and not just identify problems.
They didn’t know or didn’t believe that leaning in to where they were most alive doing their work would usually lead to the best outcomes for their team, the company, and the people using the products.
Success, I would tell them, is about being more you. [Continued in link below]
The link to the full piece on Medium is here.
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