I was writing my blog this week and had one of those moments where you think, “Bloody hell, I actually know this stuff… so how have I allowed this to happen? I'm talking about those subtle moments where you hand over a bit of your power in business without even clocking it. Not the big, obvious stuff, the tiny, quiet things you brush off because they feel too small to matter, but then they stack up, and suddenly something feels off.
You know what I mean… when you soften what you really wanted to say because you don’t want to come across awkward. Or you let something slide with a client even though your stomach flips. Or you downplay your experience because you don’t want to sound “too confident,” even though you’ve earned every bit of that confidence.
What surprised me most was how subtle it was and it made me think about how often we all do this without realising.
So for today’s journal prompt, I want you to sit with this:
Where did you make yourself smaller this week, even in a tiny way and what would taking a bit of that power back look like next week?