When a light goes out..............

I lost a friend last week - A delightful, steady and passionate mountaineer who was incredibly talented. Tragically killed in an avalanche.

I had climbed and ski mountaineered in Scotland, the Alps and in the Himalaya with him. He helped me and another friend to escape a tent that had collapsed under the weight of snow, in the middle of the night, high on Mt Shisha Pangma.

His infectious smile and love of life will remain with me forever  and in the words of a mutual friend, "He will leave an emptiness behind for me, for all times…"

'Fake it until you make it'.............or 'until you are it'

It seems like the imposter phenomenon (IP) is nothing new. Google it and have a look.

In my work as an executive coach, a client recently presented some thoughts around feeling like an imposter at work. I’ve felt like this myself, in the past, when presenting to an executive board that was dysfunctional.

I decided to have a look into the imposter phenomenon and stumbled across a TED talk by Amy Cuddy entitled: Your body language shapes who you are.

Here’s the link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc

 

Inspiring to say the least, Amy encourages us to forget about ‘fake it until you make it’ and consider, ‘fake it until you are it!’

Enjoy.