CHAPTER 3 HOW DOES REAL CONFIDENCE FEEL? BEING COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN

Now there’s a question that can often turn into wishful thinking. What would it feel like to be Amal or George Clooney? Would we stride out to work every day with not a scrap of doubt about what we’re wearing and with that look of meaning professional business? Would we be totally cool about paparazzi trailing us?

What we really need to ask is how does true confidence feel to me? In fact we need to phrase that slightly differently: how does confidence feel when I really am me? How do I know I am the real me?

COMING FROM THE HEART

Let’s take A-list voice and leadership coach Patsy Rodenburg’s analogy of the three circles of energy. The first circle is inward and ...

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