{"id":566,"date":"2020-10-01T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2020-07-17T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:20:14","slug":"how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome-if-you-ever-feel-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"How to Deal with Impostor Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with Impostor Syndrome: How to help if you don&#8217;t feel good enough.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hardest part of reaching your goal is getting started.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means that most people with a dream to overhaul their money story and work towards the life they want NEVER GET STARTED. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/\">making a change<\/a>, the average person feels like they are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not good enough<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know because I\u2019ve been through it. When I first got started in overhauling my own money story through real estate investing, my self-talk would leave me feeling physically unable to take that first step:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like a fraud<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Figure_dash\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2012<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 there are so many people better than me!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am not an expert <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Figure_dash\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2012<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I need to go back to school for four years.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWho would pay me when there are so many more experienced people out there?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All this of course is complete baloney.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s called impostor syndrome, or the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impostor_syndrome#:~:text=Impostor%20syndrome%20(also%20known%20as,exposed%20as%20a%20%22fraud%22.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> impostor complex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symptoms include <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feeling like a fraud<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not feeling good enough<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This manifests as negative self-talk that leaves you stuck in the mud.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you don\u2019t address this, it can seriously harm your ability to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneymattersmindshift.com\/how-to-be-a-confident-woman.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be confident<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the truth is, there will never be a perfect time. Even the biggest authorities on a subject can learn more, and still make mistakes.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means impostor syndrome is just a trick your mind plays on you. It just holds you back and stops many people from ever chasing their dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with Impostor Syndrome: How to help if you don&#8217;t  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33,67],"tags":[65,61,63,64,66,62],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-confidence","category-imposter-syndrome","tag-feeling-like-a-fraud","tag-how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome","tag-i-feel-like-a-fraud","tag-imposter-complex","tag-not-feeling-good-enough","tag-not-good-enough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejackiejackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}