Are You An Imposter?

When I began legal nurse consulting, I was surprised just how easy it was.  I was simply using my existing nursing knowledge and sharing it with attorneys to help them with their cases.

I used to say to myself, “I can’t believe that they actually pay me for this.”  Now I understand how important it is to get paid for your valuable work and not to give it away for free.

Now, in the beginning I felt like an impostor saying to myself, “Who am I to get paid for doing this?”  But I came to realize that when I was a baby, I didn’t feel like an impostor, I didn’t feel like a fraud.  But as we age, we do begin to feel like frauds or impostors.

We say to ourselves things like. “Who am I to have this business?  Who am I to charge this kind of money?”  But I say, “Who are you not to?”  Playing small does not serve anyone.  You have important knowledge to share, and you deserve to be paid for that knowledge.  

Many of us are at the top of our game in nursing.  However, we did not start that way.  When we hit the floor for the first time, we were new, green, and terrified.  It took us a while to get our nursing legs.  However, we were safe and we did practice competently.  We just didn’t yet know everything that we know now, and we still don’t know everything.

When we start a business, we must repeat that phase again and we will probably begin to question ourselves, “Can we really do this?”  Well, of course you can.  You wouldn’t have the desire to have a business if you couldn’t.

I have no desire to be an astronaut, president or a marathon runner because I can’t do any of these.  But I do have a desire to be a business owner, and I absolutely love it.  If you have the same desire, you too can own a business and have your dream come true.  It just takes consistency, persistence, and a belief in yourself because you absolutely can do it! 

You are NOT an impostor.  You are NOT a fraud.  You are perfectly on the path you need to be to have the business of your dreams.