What does it take to rebuild lost confidence?

What does it take to rebuild lost confidence?

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I am coaching a talented manager who spent years in a company that questioned every choice she made. The daily criticism got so loud, she stopped hearing her own voice.

When she finally left, she told me: "I felt like I was stuck on one side of the river, watching everyone else cross the bridge while I stood frozen at the edge." 😐

⇉ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽.

Let me be honest here. As her coach, I hae watched this journey happen slowly. Some days she would step onto the bridge with confidence. Other days, the old fears would creep back in, making her doubt choices that were clearly right.

After several months of rebuilding, she told me something powerful: "I spent so long looking behind me, I missed the bridge leading to everything I had been hoping for."

↠ 𝐓𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞—𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡.

Now she is not just working with confidence—she is building the workplace she always dreamed of.

What changed? A manager is becoming someone who:

↳ trusts her gut again
↳ knows her value doesn't depend on others' opinions
↳ sees a way finally to build her next chapter

Have you seen someone find the courage to cross their bridge to a better future?

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