6 Game-Changing Questions for Greater Confidence

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The end of the year is here, and like many people, you may be looking back to move forward and devise goals for the year ahead. Below are seven questions to kickstart your reflection process.

These questions were directly inspired by the graduates of my coaching program, RESILIENT. Our alumni shared that these inquiries were part of what helped them go from feeling defeated and exhausted by the weight of responsibility to stronger, calmer, and more in control of their work and emotions.

6 Questions to Transform Your Confidence

Question 1: “What feels painful to me?”

This is such a powerful and profound question. It came from a RESILIENT member, an accomplished senior executive, who entered the program with the goal to stop wasting time worrying about what other people thought of her at work.

This member also realized that she was constantly arguing against herself. Do you ever do that? This executive would want to speak up in board meetings but then would think of all the reasons why it would be a bad idea to express herself. In particular, she wanted to apply for a higher leadership position at her firm, but she kept arguing against herself as to why she wasn’t ready for the role or would fail in the face of…