When I started my very first company I was only 23 years old.\u00a0 I still felt like a little kid at the time.\u00a0 I remember thinking that everyone was so much older than me and therefore they must be more knowledgeable than me.\u00a0 I remember thinking that people who had a higher level of education than I did must be so much smarter than I was.\u00a0 I remember looking at those people with big fancy jobs and titles thinking that they must be so much more capable than I was.\u00a0 I remember how I used to constantly second guess my own instincts because I would default to the opinions of people that I figured must be better than I was.\u00a0 Looking back I have to say that if I could tell young people something it would be this \u2013 DO NOT ever assume that age, or education, or title, position makes someone better or smarter or more capable than you are, and for heaven\u2019s sake, trust in just how good you actually are!<\/p>\n
The reality is that there are very educated people who are just not that bright.\u00a0 There are older people who are not that wise.\u00a0 There are people with big fancy titles who are not that capable.\u00a0 So you can\u2019t ever judge the abilities of a person by their age, their education, or their position.\u00a0 You have to judge them by their results and their integrity.\u00a0 And for heaven\u2019s sake, don\u2019t ever hold yourself back or second guess how good you actually are because you are measuring yourself against someone that you assume should be better than you.\u00a0 Don\u2019t discount yourself like that!\u00a0 I can tell you that most of the employees I have worked with rate themselves far below how good and how capable they actually are.\u00a0 So often they second guess their abilities and I just want to shake them and say \u201cDon\u2019t you know how truly amazing you are?\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet, I get where they are coming from because I remember a time when I used to think that way as well.\u00a0 And then one day things started to change.\u00a0 I remember sitting in meetings with what the world would have thought of as \u201cbig wigs\u201d in my early days, listening to what was going on in the room and having it suddenly hit me \u2013 \u201coh, my gosh, I know more about this than they do\u201d and feeling absolutely stunned by that because here I thought I was the junior person in the room.\u00a0 The more I had those ah-hah moments in my career, the more I started to learn that I needed to stop assuming everyone was so much smarter or better than me, and with time and experience I came to realize that I needed to trust my abilities far more than I was giving myself credit for.\u00a0 Once I was able to do that I was able to move much more quickly ahead in furthering my skills and talents in the business world.\u00a0 The lesson I am trying to share here is to HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF because you really are better than you know.<\/p>\n
Now for clarity sake let me be very clear that there is a huge difference in having confidence and being arrogant.\u00a0 Confidence is recognizing your own abilities and feeling good about them.\u00a0 Arrogance is when you start to think that those abilities somehow make you a more valuable human being than any other human being, which will never be right because to God we all matter exactly the same, never one above another, regardless of any abilities we have or don\u2019t have.\u00a0 So confidence in yourself is a good thing. Just don\u2019t ever let it cross over into becoming arrogant, because that is a very, very bad thing and you never want to get that way.<\/p>\n
Now back to how amazing you are.\u00a0 Remember this:\u00a0 You are better than you realize!\u00a0 Trust in that.\u00a0 My favorite quote in the world is one I remind myself of daily:<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t limit yourself to the picture in your mind, because God might intend your picture to be a masterpiece.\u201d\u00a0 -Amy Rees Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n Wishing you the best Wednesday ever! (get it with the Genie avatar today..tee hee).\u00a0 And it really will be Wednesday this time when you read my blog \u2026so have a great Wednesday again for the second time this week :)!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I started my very first company I was only 23 years old.\u00a0 I still felt like a little kid at the time.\u00a0 I remember thinking that everyone was so much older than me and therefore they must be more knowledgeable than me.\u00a0 I remember thinking that people who had a higher level of education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,85,27,84],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-experience","tag-masterpiece","tag-self-confidence","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}