{"id":5840,"date":"2020-03-15T07:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T07:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalyogaacademy.com\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2024-04-09T23:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T23:25:17","slug":"how-to-overcome-imposter-syndrome-and-feeling-stuck-in-your-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalyogaacademy.com\/how-to-overcome-imposter-syndrome-and-feeling-stuck-in-your-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"How to overcome imposter syndrome and feeling stuck in your biz!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5840\" class=\"elementor elementor-5840\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-361b8ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"361b8ed\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5a729374\" data-id=\"5a729374\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-369ba90c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"369ba90c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><iframe style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7479660\/embed?v=202301\" width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imposter Syndrome: We all feel it. It\u2019s normal. Almost unavoidable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Every single person has to deal with this and it almost <em>never goes away<\/em>.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s that feeling of:<\/p><blockquote><p>I&#8217;m a fraud<\/p><p>Who am I to be teaching this<\/p><p>I can&#8217;t write a blog about that<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Sound familiar?<\/p><p>Perhaps you&#8217;re scared to put yourself out there. You&#8217;re nervous about what you&#8217;re doing and lack self-belief and confidence.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0There are all of those thoughts happening and then another thought that usually goes alongside all of this.<\/span><\/p><p>What will people think?<\/p><p>You might be worried about what your co-workers will think when you start your &#8220;side hustle&#8221; yoga blog. You might be picturing your friends and family think you&#8217;ve gone crazy!<\/p><p>We start to worry that we&#8217;re going to show up and look like a fraud so we lack confidence. Then we&#8217;re also worrying about what other people will think.<\/p><h3>Feeling unworthy<\/h3><p>Let&#8217;s first address those feelings that we&#8217;re unworthy, that we aren&#8217;t good enough and don&#8217;t know enough. <strong>These are totally natural feelings that most people suffer from.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p>But this can stop you from taking action.<\/p><p>Self-doubt can come and go. One day you&#8217;re on top of the world and feel like you can conquer anything and then the next day you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;What am I doing? What if this doesn&#8217;t work? What if I&#8217;m not good enough?&#8221;<\/p><p>These are\u00a0<em>&#8220;low-value questions&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>that we&#8217;re asking ourselves that make us doubt ourselves.<\/p><p>The thing is, we need to ask ourselves better questions.<\/p><p>We can greatly minimise these negative feelings of unworthiness with a few simple questions to shift your mindset.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can greatly minimize these negative feelings with a few simple questions to shift your mindset.<\/span><\/p><ul><li>Instead of asking, &#8220;What if no one watches my video?&#8221; ask &#8220;what video content can I create that will best serve my ideal students?&#8221;<\/li><li>Instead of asking, &#8220;Who am I to start a blog?&#8221; ask &#8220;How can I improve my blog reader&#8217;s quality of life by creating valuable content?&#8221;<\/li><li>Instead of asking, &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can I possibly compete with this other yoga teacher who\u2019s been around for years?&#8221; ask &#8220;How would I behave if I had sold out offerings and a community that tuned in for my videos and read my blog posts&#8221;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of asking, &#8220;Why am I not getting more followers?&#8221; ask &#8220;How can I make one person smile today?&#8221;<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h4>Stop comparing yourself to others!<\/h4><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember that when you compare your \u201cbeginning\u201d to someone else\u2019s \u201cmiddle\u201d you create expectations that will hold you back. This can make imposter syndrome feel debilitating.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These expectations are not backed with goals or a system to get results because they\u2019re based on someone else\u2019s journey, <strong>not yours.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You end up being very hard on yourself and losing time and energy that\u2019s better spent on your own yoga entrepreneurial journey.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to start to reframe the negative questions and thoughts that are holding us back.<\/span><\/p><h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember&#8230;<\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a yoga teacher, you&#8217;re constantly learning, you\u2019re constantly building, and finding better systems and ways to live a better life not only for yourself but for others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That takes a high level of cognitive skill, analytical prowess, and insight.<\/span><\/p><p><strong>YOU help others to reach desired results.<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a teacher, you have a process or a system that others can use. Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ou\u2019ve achieved a result yourself that your students strive to also achieve. Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ou\u2019ve obtained a level of expertise and training and insight that other people are willing to pay for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>YOU have a track record of behaviours and credentials.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you start to feel unworthy and like a fraud, go back to this.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go back to the results, go back to your training, your education. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go back to the messages, the emails, the social comments that you receive from your students. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go back to your testimonials.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remind yourself of how much GRIT it has taken you to get to this point in your yoga career. There\u2019s nothing phoney about that!<\/span><\/p><h3>Get out of your own way<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to other people and what other people think about, this is your ego! Ego is part of imposter syndrome. We worry too much about what other people think about us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>But people aren&#8217;t thinking about us! People don&#8217;t think or talk about you as much you think they are.<\/p><p>And if they are, it&#8217;s really none of our business what other people think about us. <strong>That&#8217;s their problem.\u00a0<\/strong>Let them get on with it!<\/p><p>Get on with making your message much bigger than your fears.<\/p><p>The last question I want you to ask yourself is.<\/p><h4>What&#8217;s the worst that can happen?<\/h4><p>When you&#8217;re stressing out over whether you should do something or not, think about what advice you&#8217;d give to someone else in your situation.<\/p><p>Whenever we want to try something new but feel a twinge of fear in our hearts, we should ask ourselves &#8220;What&#8217;s the worst that can happen?&#8221;<\/p><h3>Why are you experiencing imposter syndrome?<\/h3><p>So where do these negative stories we tell ourselves and worry about what others think come from? How can we eliminate it so that is doesn&#8217;t continue to affect us?<\/p><p>It&#8217;s quite possibly because you&#8217;re not doing what you need to be doing or because a total lie has popped into your head.<\/p><p>Evaluate whether you are delaying something or not putting in the required effort. Because if that is the case you are not doing what you know you should be doing.<\/p><h4>So take action!<\/h4><p>Taking action is one of the fastest ways to dissolve insecurities and imposter syndrome. When you take action, it pushes past that feeling and allows you to accomplish what you set out to do.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will then make you feel<em> accomplished.<\/em><\/span><\/p><p>If you are taking action but you&#8217;re still feeling unworthy, the more time you spend feeding that lie in your head telling you you&#8217;re not good enough, that you&#8217;re fake and that you don&#8217;t deserve what you&#8217;re working for &#8211; the more the lie will grow and the more you&#8217;ll believe it.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If that is the case that you are taking action but you\u2019re still feeling unworthy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h4>The world needs yoga teachers to make a big impact!<\/h4><p>You can&#8217;t make an impact if you&#8217;re feeling uninspired, unmotivated or stuck. Many yoga teachers feel this way. Feeling stuck can happen at any point in your yoga entrepreneurial journey.<\/p><p>You need to do the inner work to address what is going on in your head to reframe and shift your mindset and start taking action.<\/p><h3>Start a system to overcome imposter syndrome<\/h3><p>The best way to take action is to have systems and structure in our business. It doesn&#8217;t matter what your goals are, you won&#8217;t move forward if you don&#8217;t have a system to get the results you want.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It doesn\u2019t even matter what your goals, you won\u2019t move forward if you don\u2019t have a system to get the results you want.<\/span><\/p><p>A system will help you to show up every day and work towards your goals. These things don&#8217;t just happen magically! 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