One thing I notice time and time again in my coaching sessions. Whatever my clients think they lack, they already have.

Whether it’s knowing how to inspire a team, understanding how to navigate difficult conversations with empathy and clarity, or being able to face your own blind spots with courage and honesty. The core capacity is already there.

Leadership tips and books (or is it LinkedIn, or those endless self-improvement podcasts?) often make you feel like you need to reach a new level, acquire a new skill, or embody a different persona. Like your success, your worth, your very essence depends on you constantly improving and reaching new heights, chasing some elusive ‘full potential.’

It’s a race you can’t win.

Because there’s no end to it. The goalposts keep shifting. The definition of ‘enough’ keeps changing. You’re forever striving for a destination that doesn’t exist.

Understanding this – truly internalizing this – helps you to come across as confident, charismatic, authentic, influential – whatever character trait you are seeking to embody. It’s not about becoming someone else, but about unveiling the leader you already are.

Working on yourself, exploring your inner landscape, should be a relief, a journey of self-discovery.

Not the starting point of a relentless race to constantly improve yourself, to earn your own worthiness. It’s about recognizing that you’re already worthy, already capable, already enough.

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