Stop letting imposter syndrome run your dog grooming business

This week, I want to discuss something really common in our industry, and that is imposter syndrome.

Now, I'm not gonna pretend for a second that imposter syndrome isn't a universal problem in every profession, every business, every sport.

It's a real buzzword for the past 10 years, imposter syndrome, that feeling like, You don't quite belong.

You're kind of where you are due to a little bit of luck, not necessarily skill and merit.

And oh my goodness, if they all find out how rubbish I really am sometimes, they wouldn't give me the respect I deserve.

They wouldn't pay the prices I want to charge.

that's imposter syndrome and I'd love to say that by the end of this podcast today you have a magic wand for how to eradicate it from your life you're not gonna I'm so sorry it is something that will walk alongside you for the rest of your life the rest of your career but knowing how to manage it how to identify when it is rearing its head how to see when it is affecting you and how to reduce its impact on your life, that's what we're going to talk about today.

That's a skill that will really serve you in your business and in your life because knowing how to spot when imposter syndrome is calling the shots and not you and therefore how to kind of reduce its effect, that's really important to know.

Now, I've mentioned this before, you might have heard me say it, but I see imposter syndrome as I visualize it as a person.

And this person, they're either stood next to me, either at my desk or at my grooming table, whispering in my ear, telling me that groom is not good because it's my fault, not anything to do with the fact that the dog didn't stay still for two hours.

All of these things, or it'll sit next to my desk saying that lesson was rubbish that you just recorded.

All of these things.

and what I do is I have tactics to put this person out of the salon door out of my office door and out in the back garden so I can still see them through the window I still know imposter syndrome is there and I still know it can come close if I let it but I don't I put up boundaries to make it be outside to put it behind a door so it doesn't influence my business my life the way I groom the way I do everything it doesn't I don't let it influence me as much And that's how I personally visualise imposter syndrome and then sometimes when I'm having a really rubbish day, I feel really kind of insecure, that's when it is right at the grooming table, that's when it is right at my desk and it's saying, you don't deserve to be here.

So if that helps you to visualise imposter syndrome too, do that, visualise it as a person and you have to kind of think about how you get them away from your side and out into the garden and I'd love to say you can make them disappear, you can't, they will always be there but we need to know how to spot them and control them.