How to handle it — when your confidence is shot
Moves for the moments self-doubt takes the wheel.
A rejection — job, date, knock-back — has flattened you.
— Right now
- One no isn't a verdict on you. It's one outcome, one day.
- Don't globalise it — 'this didn't work' is true; 'I'm useless' is the doubt talking.
- Do one thing you're good at today to remind yourself you're not a write-off.
— Don't
- Don't drink on the knock-back — it turns a setback into a spiral.
— Later
- Confidence is built by doing hard things, not by waiting to feel ready.
A rejection — job, date, knock-back — has flattened you.
— Right now
- One no isn't a verdict on you. It's one outcome, one day.
- Don't globalise it — 'this didn't work' is true; 'I'm useless' is the doubt talking.
- Do one thing you're good at today to remind yourself you're not a write-off.
— Don't
- Don't drink on the knock-back — it turns a setback into a spiral.
— Later
- Confidence is built by doing hard things, not by waiting to feel ready.
Confidence: the short version
- 1.One no isn't a verdict. Don't globalise it.
- 2.Get off the feed — that's a highlight reel.
- 3.Confidence comes after doing, not before.
- 4.Compare to you a year ago, no one else.
- 5.Imposter feeling isn't proof you're a fraud.
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