Dr. Shadé Zahrai

You are stepping out of your comfort zone.

Because anyone who has ever done anything new will be in a position where they haven't had all the skills or they don't know all the answers.

And it's very easy for them to then feel like I don't deserve to be here.

But you have to honor the fact that you bring a track record with you.

And maybe we'll talk about a few tools to help with this a bit later.

Yes.

So that's the first one.

The second one we see a lot of here with anyone who struggles with agency is social comparison.

They're comparing themselves to other people, not in a positive way, but in a, you are so far ahead of me and I'm inadequate.

I could never do that.

And we see this a lot when people, again, are leveling up in their lives.

moving up in their careers, achieving more things in their business.

Suddenly, as soon as you take that step to the next level, you're now comparing yourself with people at that level, which naturally means that there's more for you to develop and do and grow because they've been there longer than you.

Maybe they are better at certain things, but if you start fixating on that and feeling like I can never do what they do, you undermine your agency.

So that's the second one.

I mean, comparison is natural, but we need to get better at making sure it's not filling us with self-doubt.

And then the third area here is where people are just constantly waiting to feel ready, to feel prepared.

So they procrastinate by busying themselves with planning and reading and preparing.

And they say, I just want to learn a little bit more.

But we know that the more you learn about something, the more you realize how little you know about that thing.