I’m not sure what it’s like to go to post secondary and get a degree because I haven’t done it.
I’ve often wondered if you follow your path and use the degree if that helps your confidence in pursuing the thing.
Does the degree set you apart, and set you up enough that you can do the work without feeling like you are an imposter?
I’m not sure if it does, but it seems like it might.
What I do know is that if you just decide for yourself that you are going to show up in the world and call yourself a professional, then the shame tapes (as Brene Brown calls them) start playing.
“Who do you think you are?“. This one is a doozy, and I spend a large majority of my time talking myself into it.
“Who are you to do that”. Another doozy.
Other people might think these things about us… but we wouldn’t know because we rarely give them a chance to. We stop because we are saying it ourselves from the moment we have the idea.
The mental game is always the biggest hurdle. And it’s not just one hurdle, there are many.
I don’t want to live a life where I didn’t show up for it as hard as I could. But in the back of my mind, no matter how much I know, I’m always wondering… who am I to be doing this?