I have to tell a version of this story as it happens to me still once a week.
There will be someone/organisation/boss who doubts you, maybe not every day but at least once a week. I have become immune to it, purely because I have a defence mechanism against it now, and it always inspires me to fight back and do something better.
Doubt happens because we let it, don’t imagine it’s to going to come at you because it will. Your boss will tell you you’re not good enough for promotion or speak to you like a dog at times, a chain in business terms will serve rubbish and often expect to get away with it, maybe one of your friends will passionately tell you the virtues of “playing it safe in life” and not going for your dreams.
So what are you going to do? The moment the phone goes own with an answer I don’t want, I will be going hell for leather to change it, through a different channel.
The moment your boss doubts you, you need to be upfront and tell them in a nice way that you are better than that, and you CAN do it. Too many rubbish middle managers killing businesses, and you could be the person to do their job one day soon and prove HOW GOOD it really can be done.
That friend who doubts you, you need to get them out of your life as it will be recurring, and they will eventually destroy your positivity and hopes yo have right now.
So my “bad moment of doubt” only lasted 10 seconds today, I had to regroup, realise what I can really do, have done and will do to rectify it and YET AGAIN prove all those people wrong. Life is not a challenge without big talking people, and proving them wrong, realising your ambitions and creating an even better future for yourself.
I believe in each and every one of you, fight, and fight hard with everything you have, don’t leave anything left in the tank, show what you can do and never EVER doubt yourself again.
