{"id":1002,"date":"2019-06-05T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2019-06-05T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:44:38","slug":"today-is-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/today-is-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Is The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo copyright \u00a92019 David J Crone. All rights reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am coming up on another anniversary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 years ago, I walked away from my day job for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2007, I walked away from a corporate job. It was a good job. Corner office. Ridiculous salary. Great people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? I couldn\u2019t take it anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day I went to work thinking, \u201cThis is it. This is the day they figure out I\u2019m not worthy. This is the day they tell me they\u2019re on to me. A big faker. Your services are no longer required. Pack your boxes. You\u2019re done here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That feeling had been building for a long time. It was a slowly festering anxiety that continued to build day after day after day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I now know it to have a name: Imposter Syndrome<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And like many who suffer from it, it was untrue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until I started conversations with my boss about leaving that I recognized the falsehood. To paraphrase the conversation with my boss\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: It\u2019s time for me to go.<\/p>

Boss: Only if you let us take you out to dinner and celebrate all that you have done here. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It didn\u2019t matter that I got great reviews every year during the annual performance evaluations. It didn\u2019t matter that I was continuously given more responsibility and a steady stream of promotions. It didn\u2019t matter that I always got my bonus. Always. Every day I walked in expecting to get the proverbial pink slip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you relate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you feel like you are faking it, hoping someday you\u2019ll make it? Do you feel like you’ve built a fragile house of cards that is going to collapse at any moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a horrible way to go through life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even stars are prone to this inner turmoil. In her iconic Oscar acceptance speech, Sally Field said, \u201cYou like me. Right now, you like me!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is often misquoted as, \u201cYou like me! You really like me!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, if only she had actually said that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The misquoted version implies closure, a sense of finally achieving a sense of belonging, reaching a point of no return, knowing that you have finally made it and it can\u2019t be taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the actual quote captures the ongoing struggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now, you like me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These words capture the still lingering angst that it is a temporary victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now you like me, but tomorrow I\u2019m going to do something to screw it all up and we\u2019ll go back to you not really liking me after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I had great words of wisdom that would quell those inner doubts. I wish I could close out this post with a pithy phrase that would make it all go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All I can offer is that you are not alone. Hang in there. Keep going. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chances are good that your fears are unfounded. Odds are that you really are worthy. People do like you. They really like you. Just as you are. You don\u2019t need a trophy on the shelf to make that a reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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