1Transform Fear by Stepping Up
MYTH
I can’t tackle it now; I’m not ready.
TRUTH
I can do it. What I don’t know I will learn or delegate.
Our fears can prevent us from achieving great heights of success. They can distort reality and are often grounded in false beliefs, including erroneous messages due to gender prejudice. But when we step up and take action, we move through our fears.
Taking action in itself can bring up fear because we are moving outside our comfort zone. That’s okay because being challenged means we are growing. Confidence is the ability to step into uncharted territory and take the next right action, to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
Giusy Buonfantino, president of North America Baby & Child Care at Kimberly-Clark, ...
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