Episode #90 Confidence NOW

You need confidence NOW. Currently, confidence feels like a nice to have. It feels optional. You know it's important. You know you need it and you want to build and increase it, but it doesn't feel urgent. But building confidence IS urgent. It's both urgent AND important. That makes building it, getting more of it, has to be at the top of your priority list. In this episode I explain why. I explain how every day you aren't building your confidence is another day lost to overworking and overthinking. Another day of unnecessary anxiety and stress. Another day edging closer to burn out. How every day without confidence in who you are is another day thinking it's harder for people like us. Feeling like you don't belong. Needing everyone around you to change their behaviour. Waiting for other people to validate you. Every day without confidence in who you are means another day hiding from opportunities that have your name written all over them. It means another day labouring away working twice as hard while your white peers are being seen and getting promoted, and you are being left behind. Another day thinking negative feedback means something negative about you, making you defensive, launching you into yet more overworking, thinking the only answer is striving harder for perfection. I know this feels like the way things are. I know you're resigned to this. But all of this is optional. You don't HAVE to have another day like this. Build confidence NOW and you will change all of this. The minute you prioritise confidence you'll feel better instantly. Just the decision to take ownership of your confidence will change you. You'll feel a fire in your belly and start feeling stronger at your core. This switch can happen in an instant. It doesn't take days or weeks or months. Building confidence NOW means feeling better NOW. It means less stress and anxiety, NOW. Letting go of the need to be perfect, NOW. It means working smarter, NOW. Receiving negative feedback without getting defensive, NOW. It means taking up space and being visible NOW, and attracting the recognition and support you need to progress, NOW. None of this is months away or years away. It's one decision away. Not the decision to WANT confidence (wanting confidence doesn't bring you any closer to being confident!). It's the decision to prioritise confidence and build it NOW. Today. Literally this minute. If you're a black lawyer, whatever your level, join CONFIDENT Black Lawyers NOW so you can build confidence NOW. In it I walk you through a step by step process for building confidence in who you are so you can overcome Imposter Syndrome and have the confidence to do great work and fulfil your true potential. You're just a click away. Click this link right now, in this moment, to join: https://caroline-flanagan.mykajabi.com/confident-black-lawyers