What is happening here?
A few weeks ago I received an email that basically said, ‘Hey Erin, we hear you’re doing some cool things will you hop on a call with Jay Papasan to talk about it?”
Excuse me? What?
What is happening here? Do they know I am a mess? That I am completely fumbling my way through life? That I still haven’t figured out the whole The One Thing stuff? What am I doing that would make them want to hear from me?!
I suffer so much from impostor phenomenon (Checkout some interesting stuff here on why it’s a phenomenon) even though I tell myself hey you’re doing good stuff Erin, and hey you have value… it’s still there… I don’t shake it very well. When opportunities like this come up, and they have in different ways and industries over the years, I am equally incredibly honored and completely shaken all at once. This isn’t some kind of humble brag. This is honest, I guess confusion you could call it, on how these cool opportunities come our way.
The day of the call (which was a recorded video) I had a stack of papers with every kind of number statistic and piece of data that showed the growth of our little team, I had a list of all the things I thought we had done that was pretty cool and possibly unique or at a minimum had a bit of a spin to it… and it made me so damn proud of what WE have created here. It’s had me thinking that I need to work hard on moving past this impostor feeling, because this team I have had the honor to build a professional life that spills over into my personal life deserves every bit of this.
We are doing what we set out to do, build a community within our real estate community, where we lift and elevator others to build these giant lives by design. All I want is to see this team grow into their own and find their successes and hit these goals I am so lucky to share… and a byproduct of that is super cool opportunities.
I have NO doubt I will still say WTF many many times as we keep doing good things and building this company from a place of love, but I am going to keep reminding myself that these people who have said YES to joining my vision deserve everything that comes from it.
Oh, and Jay Papasan, just as cool as I imagined he would be, and in walking me through our success as a team and it was just what I needed for my heart at the time.
