Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me?

Okay, so there is a specific kind of insecurity that I see in the aesthetics industry all the time and it doesn't always look like insecurity.

Sometimes it looks like constantly buying more education or obsessively watching other estheticians on Instagram or changing your treatment protocols every three weeks or even buying every new machine that comes out or even seeing someone else's before and afters and thinking my results aren't that good or she knows so much more than I do.

Or obviously she's better than me.

You're constantly looking outside of yourself for proof that you're good enough.

And that's what I want to talk about today, because there is a difference between being an esthetician who is committed to improving and being an esthetician who has convinced herself that everyone else is better than she is.

Those are not the same thing.

And honestly, one of them will make you a better professional and the other one will slowly destroy your confidence, your decision-making and eventually your business.

So today we're talking about the estheticians who think everyone else is better than her.

And if you've ever looked at another esthetician online and immediately started questioning your entire career, this episode is for you.

And I'm not trying to say I'm above and high and mighty.

No, I've definitely, definitely done this before.

And it...

I don't like saying that I have done it, but I've done it.

But let's start with something uncomfortable.

You're probably not as good as some estheticians.

And some estheticians are probably not as good as you.

That's just reality.

There are people in this industry who have more experience than you.

There are people who are better extractions, who understand advanced modalities better, who are better at marketing, at sales, that technical knowledge, better with their hands, better at content creation, better educators.

And there are probably things that you are exceptionally good at that somebody isn't.

That is normal.

But somewhere along the way, we started treating professional development like a competition.

Instead of thinking, she's really good at that.

What can I learn from her? We think, she's really good at that.

Therefore, I'm bad.