A Simple Tool to Eliminate Self-doubt & Elevate Self-esteem
To believe in yourself when embarking on an entrepreneurial journey can be one of the greatest challenges. We simply stand in our own way by either telling ourselves the wrong story about who we are or we keep listening to the stories others tell about us. Either way, what we actually need to do, is to reflect on the story of our past and envision the new story we want to inhabit in the future. It’s something so simple yet so often overlooked when creating a business.
“First our story shapes us, and then, we can shape our story.”
Along my own long and windy entrepreneurial journey, I haven’t yet discovered a magic formula for success, but if there was one, I’m quite certain it would contain the following ingredients:
Success = discover your why + live it (hustle) + surround yourself with people who believe more in you than you believe in yourself
My mission is to help you clarify your why and be one of those people who empower you towards your desired future.
You probably wonder how I do that?
To get to the bottom of your why, I use the power of observation and storytelling. By listening to your story and understanding your past, I can get a better sense of your present so that we together can design the desired future. Your story then serves as a tool to identify lessons learned and insights gained from life experiences. By marking your development of growth, I can show how specific life episodes illustrate enduring truths. The end result is a infographic I call ‘Journey Map’.
A Journey Map identifies lessons learned and insights gained from life experiences, marks development of growth, and shows how specific life episodes illustrate enduring truths.
“Often, it’s only when you see where you have been that you can tell where you are heading.”
I find this exercise very helpful for the following reasons:
Firstly, it gives me an opportunity to deeply connect with my client at the very start of our collaboration. Secondly, I get to learn a thing or two from someone else’s experiences and offer a birds-eye perspective on someone’s past, present and future. But the biggest advantage of self-reflection is that it reminds us of the ups and downs, failures and victories, ugliness and beauty that have shaped us into the person we are today. That the entrepreneurial journey is never a straight line, but a hilly path of valleys and peaks that mark our moments of change and transformation.
Outcomes of journey mapping:
Connect with my customer on a deeper level
Gain insights into my clients’ values and beliefs
Raise my client’s self-esteem
The journey map serves as the foundation to build further on the actionable steps towards a solid vision and always leaves my clients feeling more energized and excited to do whatever it takes to conquer their dreams. It helps them to overcome some of their fears. Because often, it’s only when you see where you have been that you can tell where you are heading.