Matchless Mix

Women often come to my coaching practice, excited about a possible new project or direction but hesitant to pursue the idea because they’re worried that they don’t have what it takes.

They tell me that someone else is smarter, that another person is better connected that someone else still has more professional experience. So what is the point [they ask] of even trying? When other people are so much better equipped.

And you know what? In a way, they’re right.

Someone else is always going to be smarter. Someone else is always going to be better connected. Someone else is always going to be more experienced.

But the things is this: they don’t have your unique combination of skills and talents and attributes and experiences, which will position you to do the work in a way no-one else could or would.

If you tend to get stuck, comparing yourself to others on isolated factors, assessing yourself as inadequate and then choosing not to act as a result, why not try this, instead:

Take a piece of paper and get very [very] clear on the distinctive blend of skills and talents and attributes and experiences that you bring.

[I’m talking professional skills here but also, life stuff: the fact that you can have a room laughing in less time than it takes to eat a banana; that you have three kids so can juggle eleventyhundred tasks without batting an eyelid and still deliver in less time than it would take someone to tie their shoelace; or that you have overcome extreme loss and pain and have the fighting resilience of a champion. You know, that kind of thing].

And then? Draw up some specific, practical steps you can take to leverage that matchless mix, in order to maximise the opportunity at hand.

Tags: career-coaching, life-coaching, Melbourne