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Confidence & Personal Power

A Secret of Successful Business Women 

Look at your audacious achievements! Do you secretly hope no one finds out that you're not what your hard-won success declares you to be? If so, you may be suffering from a super-achiever malaise called the Imposter Syndrome. So many highly successful women have feelings of inadequacy that books have been written on this Fake Syndrome for the last 30 years. These feelings are rooted in the belief that you are not good enough. Well...Who told you that? And why do you still believe it?

Oprah Took Marianne Williamson's Advice

The famous quote Nelson Mandala used in his Presidential speech was originally written by Marianne Williamson to encourage Oprah early in her TV career. Those words continue to empower and inspire us. I invite you to allow their truth into your heart and mind. Experience the gift that is your personal power. It's key to you feeling confident about your amazing accomplishments.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

"It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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