Dealing with self sabotage: Getting beyond impostor feelings

Troyann Williams — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:38:21 +0000

Hi Cat!
Love your article.
I believe that people are much more afraid of success than they are of failure and unsciously make it difficult for themselves to embrace their “greatness”. Failure is so much more familiar to us as we have spent years building internal resources for dealing with and recovering from our failures. Yet success is all about the “unknown”.
Building success is often like trying to bust through our own self-made cocoon – it is a challenging struggle and takes a great deal of persistence and personal fortitude. One of the most successful techniques I use with my coaching clients is to help them to develop new, more effective decision-making criteria and strategies for proactively dealing with the challenges and problems that their success will potentially create for them… challenges such as dealing with the added responsiblities that success brings and responding to friends, family and/or loved ones who may not appreciate their success. Being prepared for the challenges of success increases our comfort and knowledge that it is safe to move forward into manifesting our dreams and goals.
Thanks again for your insightful post.
Troyann

Dealing with self sabotage: Getting beyond impostor feelings

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Dealing with self sabotage: Getting beyond impostor feelings

Steve-Personal Success Factors — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:53:01 +0000

As a therapist, I have talked to many beginning therapists entering the field, often highly qualified and accomplished. They often have guilt and insecurity, and I have literally heard them use the words, “I feel like an impostor!” Thanks for sharing.

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Darrell Davis — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:06:23 +0000

If that is what black women feel, you can’t imagine what black men feel. We, as black men, have to be ‘hard’ and a M-A-N! So many black women want the ‘thug’. Quite a few black women thought I was gay because I read books and like to write stories and poetry. That’s how lost my black people are.