Imposter Syndrome?
Do you ever feel like an imposter? That feeling you get, that you’re not the person people think you are, that you are not enough?
I was doing an interview for the “Not Another Small Business Show” podcast, and I was asked if I ever felt like an imposter. I stopped for a moment and thought about it, and my answer was…
“I’m yet to meet a person who doesn’t.
And it’s true. I do, every other woman I’ve spoken too, and I’m sure that most of the men, have felt it sometimes.
They go through periods when they feel like an Imposter. They feel like what they are putting out to the world says that they are this amazing person who has all their shit together, and on the inside, they feel like it’s not true. 
I’ve been there, I’m sure you’ve been there too.
You see, this Imposter Syndrome, it’s not because you are not good enough… it’s not because you don’t have all your shit together (I’m yet to meet anyone that does).
No one feels that perfect, because no-one is that perfect.
Imposter Syndrome, is this opportunity with give ourselves to hide, to give up, to run away… because we feel like we are not going it right, we don’t know enough, we’re not enough.
It’s sad. It’s sad that we do that to ourselves, because we don’t need to.
{These videos have been really honest recently!}
Every time that you feel imposter syndrome, I want you to write it down. I want you why you feel like an Imposter, and what you feel like the gap is between where you are pretending to be, and where you are.
You see, that’s all it is. When you feel like that, it’s because you feel like there is a gap.
A gap between the things you should be doing and what you are doing. A gap between the things you say you can do and what you can do.
It’s just a gap, you just have to work out what that gap is, and then work out if it is actually true.
As an example: Someone might come to me saying that they need another qualification, they feel like they need to learn more.
Yes, maybe they do have some holes in their knowledge and experience and doing the course will be good for them.
OR (and this is what happens most of the time) the reality is, there isn’t a gap. It’s one they perceive, but it’s not really there. When I talk to them and find out some things, I find that they do know those things already, and they don’t need to come and take another course, because they already know.
I want you to be really, brutally honest with me now and comment down below.
Have you ever had the feeling that you are not enough? The feeling you don’t know enough? The feeling that you are hiding? The feeling of imposter syndrome?
Share with me down below.