Am I good enough?
I had a friend share with me recently that he was doing an important presentation at work and stumbled on the opening line. He was devastated. I can’t remember his exact words but the sentiment was that because of it he would “never work in this town again”. My heart broke for him - whether it would have that dramatic an effect on his career was true or not, it’s awful that he felt that way. What kind of impossible level of perfection are we holding ourselves to that there is zero room for error? It made me start reflecting on “enoughness”. So many of us have a voice in our heads telling us that we’re not enough - not smart enough, not funny enough, not pretty enough, not thin enough, not successful enough, not rich enough, not young enough, not creative enough, not cool enough, not strong enough, not vulnerable enough, not happy enough...not good enough. We could probably have a healthy debate about how those thoughts get formed and set on repeat. Is it societal pressures and fa...