Episode 151. When Your Business Calls You Forward: How to Turn Courage to Confidence

Growing a successful private practice takes a lot more than a nice office and some cool posts on Instagram or a brief profile in Psychology Today.

It takes courage -and lots of it.

There have been countless times when I knew I wanted to go somewhere with my practice that would require me to step up in a bigger way, to play a bigger game.

And each time, that meant I had to face my own internal limits, to tolerate the discomfort of growth, and do things I wasn’t at all sure I could do!

• Learning how to network with community business leaders and government officials,  many of whom I initially found quite intimidating. 
• Learning how to promote myself and my colleagues with confidence and clarity, standing on the value I knew we brought to our region even before I had that confidence myself.
• Learning how to lead a team, design a program, launch a regional conference, and eventually - run for office - even though I’d never done anything like that in my life.

And so much more.

Today, I’ll tell you how I did it, how I faced those fears and did what needed doing, every single time.

Turns out - even though I was running on intuition - there was a structure to my process, every time. Today, I’m introducing you to the Courage to Confidence Success Cycle(c), a go-to process I’ve used to face fear and reach new heights over and over again.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

1. …about the complete 7 step process that worked each time I knew it was time to grow as  a practice owner. 
2. …the one step you must take before you figure out the ‘how’, not after, even though most people would do it the other way around.
3. …the unexpected, unpredictable, and often kind of amazing ways that one small courageous step will teach you to lead in ways you didn’t even know you had in you.

Whether you’re gathering the nerve to invite a colleague you’ve always admired to coffee, making your first hire, or heck - buying an office building - it’s all scary.

But you already have the courage inside. It’s only in taking action that you’ll build the confidence to match. And the C2C Success Cycle will lead you all the way through.

So give this a listen.

And the next time your business calls you to move forward, whisper a quiet, “Ok”.

And begin.

You can’t see it, but I’m over here, cheering wildly, for you.

~Wendy

P.S. Got something that’s calling you forward now? Shoot me an email and tell me about it. Send it to [email protected]. I’d love to cheer you on!

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THIS WEEK’S JOURNAL PROMPT:

If you were not fearful, what would you do?

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