Failure Leads to Confidence (how)

Recently, I had a failure.

I was interviewed for a private practice podcast I love. Win! Then the podcast came out, and the audio of me is so bad, I'm sure you can hear my every breath (and nervous swallows). Fail!

It was hard to have this happen. I was hoping the podcast would help me spread the word about this work. So besides being embarrassing, it is not great for business. Literally.

Here's the confidence thing I learned: there's value in telling someone about your failures.

After I heard the episode, I talked to my friend Michelle, a fellow business owner. She confirmed the crappy sound quality, but shared that she got used to it by about 1/3 of the way through the interview. She also noted significant points in the interview content, what it meant to her, and why it seemed to be an important message.

When we put ourselves out there, whether in a session, or when starting/growing a practice, we're going to face the risk of failure. It comes with the gig.

But if we have a friend to turn to in the face of failure, we can get balanced about our view point, move out of all-or-nothing thinking, and see the value in our actions. And thus, confidence can flow.

So if you're sitting with a failure, even a small one, spread the word. Let someone close to you know that your client didn't show up and you're worried it's about you, or you started building a website for your practice and accidentally deleted a whole section, or you posted on a Facebook group and no one responded...let someone know, and then see where confidence can be built from your efforts.

I'm no expert on confidence, so feel free to ignore all of the above. :)

But:

I hope you can join us for our confidence workshop, where we'll learn from Elaine Dizon who is an expert in this realm.

Elaine is providing the workshop for free, and I'll be matching any donations made to her charity of choice, Yours Humanly.