WE all have a story, but that story isn't allowed to keep us down and playing small.
I had to learn how to gain confidence the hard way – I’m a real person just like you and we all have moments when our lack of self confidence drags us down.
My journey to confidence.
For most of my life I have considered myself
Fugly.
Fat and Ugly.
I hated the way my nose my stuck out.
Someone told me once that my eyes were too close together.
I agreed.
“Aren’t your thighs still really big for someone who runs?”
When I was in my early twenties, a woman (two actually) told me once in front of a group of people….gosh you are ugly.
There was so much evidence to back up my fugly story. Mostly in the past now.
To compensate this I would wear a mask of makeup.
Easy to be confident behind a wall of liquid foundation.
I would drive to look perfect and be perfect.
Isn’t that what you wanted?
Then one day my face paralysed.
My eye wouldn’t close.
The right hand side had frozen. The left side looked like a freak show.
Hello Fugly. Goodby confidence.
No amount of makeup was going to fix this bloody nightmare.
I am the face of my business. The irony of this happening isn’t lost on me babe.
2016….It was the first year of my business, my last attempt had failed.
I was already insecure and fearful of another failure.
Cue a really valid reason to give up, close up and go get a job. I mean I had Bells Palsy…No one would hold it against me if I decided to hide.
But…my business was my “Never have to sit on a bus for 2 hours” free card.
I had to make this work. There was more than me to think about.
Two daughters and a husband.
So my face was fucked. But I wasn’t dying, I wasn’t having a stroke, I was in fact one lucky lady.
Gratitude lifted me out of my woe. Kicked my butt in ways that I now understand.
WE all have a story, but that story isn’t allowed to keep us down and playing small.
It isn’t allowed to stop us from becoming who we know we CAN be.
Our story gives is the courage and confidence to keep going.
No matter what.
The women who are confident, out there and walking the talk are doing so because they decided to be bigger than their fear....and their excuses.
They had to learn how to gain confidence through adversity and courage and persistence. Through getting knocked down and getting back up again. Believing in themselves, in their value and their message.
But really if not you…Then who?
Today when I see my face, I grin and give thanks.
To my imperfect beauty, my incredible confidence and inner strength of “I will no longer wait to be ready, to be better, to be thinner, more educated, more qualified.”
There is only now.
Go be that relevant expert, that women is two steps ahead and be the bloody inspiration!
And if you feel like it’s time for making bold steps forward in your business, book a time for FREE 30 minute chat with me.
Nat x
****THIS video is from Feb 2016 when I decided I wasn’t hiding but in fact getting back up!
