Feeling Like An Imposter?
Posted on July 27, 2024 by Jerry Henderson, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
Imposter syndrome can be a very painful and limiting belief. Many high achievers struggle with this, you are not alone.
I personally struggled with the imposter syndrome for decades.
One of the things that was key in helping me make progress in this area is when I decided to intentionally look for the evidence of successes in my life and make an emotional connection with that evidence.
Many people who struggle with imposter syndrome are likely to see all of their failures and at the same time ignore their successes.
One of the reasons for this is when we get more emotionally attached to the failures in our life than we are to the successes in our life.
Our focus has become on the evidence for why we’re not enough and we ignore all of the evidence as to why we are enough.
To help overcome this, think of a success in your life and begin to emotionally connect with that moment. Don’t make excuses as to why it wasn’t a success or find stories to lessen the success. Just accept it as a success and emotionally connect with that moment.
Really feel what that success feels like and allow yourself to enjoy it as proof or evidence as to why you are and can be successful.
Then when the stories of your failures come to your mind and you start telling yourself why you can’t be successful or are an imposter, switch to the memory of that success and the emotions associated with it.
Keep practicing this and eventually you might find that you are more emotionally connected with your successes than you are with the failures.
I am grateful you are here,
Jerry
