Meet Someday: the voice running your business

Most women don't have a confidence problem. They have a Someday problem.

Someday is the internal voice that tells you to prove yourself before you're allowed real tools, real pricing, or real confidence. Naming her is the first step to no longer listening to her.

The voice that sounds reasonable

Someday doesn't announce herself as doubt. She sounds like good sense — "once it's official," "once I'm ready," "once I have more time." Every one of those sentences sounds responsible. That's exactly what makes her so effective.



Someday isn't the opposite of confidence. She's confidence's understudy — waiting in the wings, convinced she'll go on eventually.



 

Someday doesn't announce herself as doubt. She sounds like good sense — "once it's official," "once I'm ready," "once I have more time." Every one of those sentences sounds responsible. That's exactly what makes her so effective.

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