With the guidance of one my sweetest and wisest co-workers, I was able to completely overturn some negative thoughts that have taken over, even after I’d promised I wouldn’t let them. I made mention of my plaguing lack of confidence in the interview I had recently. She told me to remember that I’d already won. But without a job offer in hand, I didn’t understand how I could have won when some other better qualified candidate could always be in the shadows. She explained how if we decide we want something and we take the first step in achieving it, we win. If fate/chance/circumstance decides otherwise and you don’t progress, your trying effort is still your gold star. It could easily be a pick-me-up for a failed venture but I really, really believe this.
I wish I could arm her with a megaphone and ask her to tell everyone what she told me, without my improvised words mucking it up like they do. It was exactly what I needed to hear. More and more often, the things she tells me seem to be catered to the way my mindgrapes are leaning and she helps me back onto the better, brighter, less-falling-rocks path. Girl has no idea and I should really tell her how easily I breathe when I walk away from a conversation with her.
-CJ
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