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I DID IT

  • Writer: Arjanna van der Plas
    Arjanna van der Plas
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • 2 min read

"But isn't focusing on your strengths instead of fixing your weaknesses just an excuse for staying inside of your comfort zone?"šŸ¤” That's a question my partner in crime Nele Clüver and I get all the time when we are leading workshops about the strengths-based approach. Remember my last post, in which I shared exactly how nervous I was about sharing a very personal story on the WOMEN'S HUB stage in Munich AUF DEUTSCH? 😱 Well, I survived šŸ’ŖšŸ¾

Would I have passed the Goethe C1 Prüfung with my talk? Hell no šŸ˜‚ Was I using my super powers to connect with the audience, so that my limited German vocabulary wasn't perceived as a weakness anymore? Totally🤩 Point proven? āœ… I hope sošŸ˜… And I have another point I want to prove with this email (I guess I am in preachy mode - but bear with me, it’s a good one). What really carried me through the whole endeavor, was the flood of supporting messages I received from all of youšŸ’Œ If you know me a little, you know it doesn’t exactly come naturally to me to ā€˜burden’ others with my worries and insecurities. Yet, maybe inspired by the ā€˜rise by lifting others’ quote that we love to use in the WOMEN’S HUB community, I decided to share about my nervousness with you, right in the moment when I was experiencing it most. So even though I was the one who had to do the talk, your encouraging words still echoed in my mind, as if I had a little cheerleading squat with me on the stagešŸ¤øšŸ»ā€ā™€ļøšŸ‘šŸ«¶. And it made all the difference. Where in your life could you use some encouragement? Let me know, and I will send you a little personalized cheerleading chant šŸ¤—


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