Impostor Syndrome

Failing Forward: Embrace Failure to Achieve Success

July 25, 2023

In this article, Maria Aguirre explores the concept of “Failing Forward,” emphasizing the importance of embracing failure as a pathway to success and fostering a growth mindset. She provides five practical strategies for leaders, including cultivating a culture of experimentation, offering constructive feedback, developing emotional intelligence, celebrating effort and growth, and modeling resilience and learning from failure, to help teams overcome fear and achieve peak performance.

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Mastering Mindset: Overcoming the Impostor Within

July 18, 2023

Buckle up as we launch our campaign against the Impostor Syndrome, armed with knowledge, self-compassion, and authenticity. Let’s shatter those chains of self-doubt, spread our wings of confidence, and seize the sky – it’s time to soar!

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Wow, You’re Brimming with Confidence!

March 14, 2023

Public speaking is one of my dreams. So here are 5 mindsets I’ve developed to help me with my self-confidence.

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Do You Have a Big, Scary Dream?

March 7, 2023

Achieving success can be a difficult and uncertain journey. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut of worrying, doubting, and struggling to make progress; not to mention all the second guessing and overthinking

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The True Perfectionist

October 11, 2022

I have stopped using perfectionism as a crutch to justify my fear of criticism and my lack of self-confidence, and instead have combined my love for continuous improvement to put out great, imperfect work each day and keep working consistently into perfecting my craft.

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Employee vs. Service Provider

September 20, 2022

There’s nothing personal in business. Leadership focuses on people, but business focuses on increasing profitability, while reducing any risk of liabilities, plain and simple. By approaching my employment as a service provider, I keep the control of my service offering, and the agreed compensation that offering, and its results should generate me. I no longer struggle with having to ask for an increase as if asking for a favor, I negotiate a desired outcome with a desired compensation for it….a straightforward business transaction, without the emotional sabotage I used to torture myself with.

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What Determines Your Identity?

September 13, 2022

The problem with attaching our identity to the work we do or to the company we do it for is that the day that for any reason that job is no longer there, professionals lose alongside with their income, their own sense of purpose and identity. And this is not only relevant to jobs or careers, it happens with spouses, children, religious organizations, and so on. Belonging is great, we were created to crave community, but losing our individuality and our identity in the process is unhealthy and it will leave us depleted and lost. Part of reclaiming our identity is identifying our purpose; you know, one of the many existential questions we are bound to ask ourselves at some point or another. Why am I here? For which purpose was I created? What’s my worth?

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Why is Resilience a Leader’s Superpower?

May 17, 2022

Resilience allows us to think critically during difficult times while keeping a positive perspective because we trust in our knowledge and experience, and we trust in our team. Difficult situations will happen, problems will arise, mistakes will be made, yet how we react and how we respond and rebuild can set us apart from the rest.

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How Successful Leaders Approach Fear of Failure

May 10, 2022

Developing our resilience and creating self-awareness about the fixed mindset and growth mindset, and ensuring we are making the conscious decision of approaching challenges with a sense of excitement for the growth to come; instead of as the possibility of failure and the associated shame it casts on us, will help us to be more assertive and focus more on working at finding a way forward.

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