Learning to Talk About What I Do
An Australian friend and I were talking recently about self-promotion. She said she isn’t good at it because Australians tend to be self-deprecating, while many of her US colleagues are more outspoken.
I told her I 100% related. When I was in the corporate world, I tended to work hard in the background and assume the quality of my work would prove my value. The people I worked with directly knew what I was contributing, but people farther up the chain didn’t always know.
She said, “That’s not very American of you.” 😊
You Don’t Need to Be the Expert to Lead Well
A lot of people hold themselves back because they believe they need to be the expert in order to lead something well.
A couple of recent conversations with friends and colleagues helped me rethink that.
They helpfully reminded me: what if the value is not in knowing everything but in how you guide people through the experience? The content may be the same, but the person leading it changes the entire experience.
What Envy Might Be Trying to Show You
Sometimes the people we envy are pointing us toward something important.
I’ve been thinking about the people who expand my sense of what’s possible. What grabs my attention is rarely just their success. It is usually something more human than that: a sense of ease in who they are and the feeling that they trust themselves and the life they are building.
Envy can be useful. It can show us where we want to grow, what we want more of, and what feels possible for us too.
