Accomplishments come to us in many forms. Often, we don't recognize how much success we have really achieved. If you aren't adequately celebrating milestones and don't believe you are ever enough, then you may want to look at impostor syndrome.
After someone has reached a state of success, they may begin to experience impostor syndrome. This is a deep issue that millions of individuals play out after reaching certain goals in their life.
The voice in your head tells you that what you are doing is not enough. You may start to think that you are never adequate or need to do more with your goals. Even though you have reached that space of success, impostor syndrome will talk back at you and say that you need to do more and are not worth that accomplishment.
Insecurity and self–doubt, no matter what level of achievement you are at, circle around you with impostor syndrome. Often, we place our focus on self–doubt that leads to failure. For many, the same low sense of self–worth is reflective of when we achieve something, especially when we believe that we are not at the pinnacle of where we want to be.
Here's what you need to know about overcoming the voice in your head when impostor syndrome sets in and all the limiting beliefs keep telling you that you need to do more and you haven't reached the success you want.
The Underlying Belief of Impostor Syndrome
Impostor syndrome has been officially recognized as a psychological condition that anyone can play out in their lives over and over again.
You can look at impostor syndrome symptoms from psychologists. However, with some self analysis, you can easily identify where your identity is not serving your accomplishments and instead leading to overachieving or setting a bar so high that you can’t reach your life goals.
Your mind and beliefs actually respond to your success, persuading it to believe that, despite the circumstances, you have failed.
Have you ever seen really successful people in show business that reach milestone after milestone? Despite how many awards they get, how much money they make, how much fame and fortune comes to them, they keep competing and working.
You may have heard stories of millionaires or Hollywood stars being “insecure” about their place in life, believing that someone is better or worth more than them. This is the perfect example of impostor syndrome and the inability to recognize your achievements and sense of self.
Someone who has this as a belief system may tell you that all they are doing is “riding the waves of success.” They don't own what they actually accomplish. These are all impostor syndrome symptoms that are displayed everywhere in society.
The reality is there may be self doubt and a belief that you have not achieved what you really wanted to. As a result, you fail to recognize how far you have come. Impostor syndrome tells you that you need to strive to achieve more, do more or be more without nurturing your purpose and who you really are.
Impostor syndrome is the belief that your success is not real and that all you have achieved is just a fraud or an illusion.
5 Characteristics of Impostor Syndrome And How It Takes Your Success
I know how difficult it is to both fail and to succeed. See more about that in my video about The Relationship With Yourself.
It is not the end goal that is important. It is also what you do both during the journey and to master the success you have. The first step is to recognize how impostor syndrome may be impacting your best life.
1. You want everything to be perfect. Just because you are crushing it doesn't mean that it is good enough for you. The perfectionist is the one who never quite gets the end goal, never does anything right and feels stuck, despite their accomplishments. In return, they begin to move into an impostor syndrome, never achieving their goals because it is never enough. Sound familiar?
2. You play the superhero. Maybe you try to be everything to everyone, do everything for everyone and overextend yourself. This form of impostor syndrome is dangerous. Bring yourself into check. With this belief, you may achieve one thing in life while allowing your health, finances or relationships to suffer. With true mastery, you balance every area of who you are and what you want to do, meaning that you don't have to be everything for everyone all the time.
3. You are too smart for your own good. If you have fallen into this category, then you start to play out an impostor syndrome scenario by raising the bar so high that you can never achieve success. If you don't get things at first try or are unable to be flawless on demand, then you lose your sense of self–worth and your value system falls.
If you are used to excelling at everything and use this as a measuring stick, then re-look your belief system. Maybe achieving something isn't based on completing and over performing. It's time to recognize even the smallest successes as an achievement and get over the impostor syndrome that has led you to believe you need to be more.
4. You want to do everything yourself. Maybe you know someone who refuses help and tries to succeed by themselves all the time. Independence is first and last and you never ask for a helping hand. This rebellious approach is one that falls into the impostor syndrome, where you never believe that you are good enough and are constantly trying to achieve more than your self perception of worth.
5. You are the expert… aren't you? When you think of your current job, relationship or even a win, do you believe that you actually achieved what you wanted? Or, do you believe it was circumstance and that you “tricked” everyone. If you have set your bar so high as an expert, and believe that it wasn't really you that achieved something, then look further into this as a form of impostor syndrome.
Really reflect on these traits. How do you perceive yourself in this moment? Recognition of your beliefs allows you to begin changing and mastering your life. When you see impostor syndrome as a pattern, then you are on the first step of having the power to change your belief system.
Now, it’s time to give yourself an impostor syndrome test. Identify where you overachieve or set your goals so high that it is impossible to reach them. Once you really start identifying your personal behaviors and patterns, you will easily be able to change your life and set goals that help you to feel good about what you are doing.
Overcome Impostor Syndrome Symptoms Now
Our self limiting beliefs and value system is at the heart of impostor syndrome.
You have the right to be happy with your life, no matter what your achievements or failures are. Read about how to master that in my blog, “Let Go.”
Don't allow yourself to continue to believe that you are not good enough, not worth enough or are not achieving the goals that you have set. Now that you have identified the central concerns with impostor syndrome symptoms, you will have the capacity to change your mindset and begin achieving goals you want.
It's not just setting goals, milestones and reaching a certain level of success that is important. It is getting past the impostor syndrome that you are carrying in your life and embracing each success you personally reach.
Let me ask you this: do you celebrate your successes? Have you been able to look at who you really are and see what milestones you have achieved? If you have any limitations with these answers, then look at how impostor syndrome may be overtaking who you are.
Let me give you some advice:
Look at the goals that you have set for yourself. Now, look at these following questions:
- How far are you along in this goal?
- Have you recognized the achievements that you have made?
- How close are you to what you expected and how much more do you have to go?
- How is your current success related to your real life purpose? Decide whether you are on track or not with this core question.
Change your belief system with what you have or have not achieved. This is how to get out of impostor syndrome. When you see what you have accomplished, don't build into self doubt or negate the experience with certain beliefs. Let your measuring stick be the practical goal sets you have achieved and reflect on what has or has not been done as a result. You don't need to overcompensate and reduce your value. Embrace each goal that you have reached.
Look at the ways you are taking action and how far you have come. You have the right to celebrate that milestone.
The basis of impostor syndrome is that we don't look at who we really are and what we have really achieved. Look at the moment you are in and begin to create a belief system about how much you have accomplished.
The only thing you are responsible for is looking at where you are in your life. From this, decide what you want next. You don’t need to “do too much” with any part of your life. Realize that you are enough and taking action is all you need to achieve your dreams.
Know that you are great and use this as your founding belief. Mastery comes with working toward goals and using them over and over again.
Here's What You Can Do About Impostor Syndrome
First, look at your recurring belief system. You have the ability to remove any self limiting beliefs. These are sometimes not in the form of limitations, but instead having the wrong impression about who we are and what success we have really had.
To stop playing out impostor syndrome, identify when and how your thought beliefs are interfering with your authentic self image.
Your self-worth may be overcompensated by not believing in yourself. Instead, you look at your worth based on the inability to do everything perfectly, correct or with a sense of accomplishment. At the same time, it may be related to not doing enough, not taking action and not giving yourself opportunities because of what you perceive in the form of impostor syndrome.
In my Life Mastery Accelerator, I look at your deepest belief systems and how they fit together. I help you see where your identity and sense of self worth is at, clearly. When you can clearly measure this, it allows you to set goals and accomplish them.
Instead of an imbalance of beliefs, such as through impostor syndrome, you are able to set goals, achieve them and know that this was you playing your best game with your authentic purpose. I guide you so you can easily and instantly recognize who you are and what is possible for your best life.
I've seen thousands of people move from self-limiting beliefs where they never see they can achieve anything to mastery based on how they decide to perceive their goals and in turn, themselves.
I believe you can do the same thing. Recognize and remove the false belief systems you have about what you have accomplished and who you are. Then, you have the ability to change your perspective towards your achievements while destroying impostor syndrome completely.
Continue to wake up and bring a deeper understanding of your beliefs to the mirror. You will find that your goals, successes and ability to master your life starts to take charge, delete impostor syndrome and offer an honest reflection of who your authentic self really is.
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