What Do You Believe?

in the spirit of the season I want to get a little bit metaphysical and talk about belief a lot of people out there have confidence issues because at their core they have belief challenges they don’t believe they’re going to succeed they don’t believe in themselves and I’d like to invite you to think about belief in a different way when you question yourself you question your ability to perform in the moment and I think that’s a result of you having too much attention on yourself now the way to get your attention off of you is to focus on somebody that you care about somebody that you want to make an impact on on somebody that you want to make a difference for in your professional life that might mean your co-workers it might mean other folks that you work with on a project it might mean the client that you work with my suggestion is whenever you have some sort of crisis of Faith or belief with yourself ask yourself who are you looking to make a difference for focus on them focus on the results that you want to produce for someone else and see how that affects your performance in the moment when you present in an interview focus on your target audience focus on the decision makers focus on the selection committee focus on the folks that you are looking to make a difference for and don’t define success as them liking you or agreeing with you or saying yes Define your success in terms of the difference that you want to make for them to give them useful information or to give them a different way to think about something if you can show up for them and be the difference to them that you want to be that gets your attention off of you and onto them and a really positive powerful way so I’d like to suggest this as a new way for you to think of yourself in the coming year think of yourself as the difference that you want to make for the people that you want to impact