Your worth is trading like a stock right now, and you are the only shareholder.
Good quarter, you feel worthy. Dropped ball, you feel like a fraud. Your sense of your own value rides up and down on your latest result, and it is exhausting.
Here is the problem with that. A number you have to re-earn every morning is a terrible foundation to lead from. You make slower decisions, because every call runs through a fear of being exposed. You get pushed around, because you are quietly negotiating to keep your seat.
Worth and output are two different things. You fused them somewhere back there. Output is the score. Worth is the platform the score gets made on. One moves daily. The other does not have to.
When you stop earning your worth back each morning, your decisions get faster and you stop handing other people the wheel.
Where is your worth still riding on your last result?
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The unlock? Let me tell you. The unlock. The turn happens when you separate your worth from your output. Worth, output, two different things. Right now, those two things are fused for you. Trust me, I see it all the time, all fused up. A good quarter, you feel worthy.
A dropped ball, you feel like a fraud. Your sense of your own value rides up and down on your performance like a stock market ticker, and it’s exhausting, and it is also completely unreliable as a foundation to grow from. Worth is not the score at the end of the day. Worth is the platform the score gets made on. When you stop earning your worth back every single morning, something changes in how you lead.
I promise you. I watch it all the time. You make decisions faster because you are not running each one through the fear of being exposed. You stop getting pushed around because you are no longer negotiating for a place of, “Please do not notice. I don’t belong here.”