Fake it tll you make it

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>"Fake it till you make it" (also called "act as if") is a common catchphrase that means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence. The purpose is to avoid getting stuck in a self fulfilling prophecy related to one's fear of not being confident.</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A conversation I had today with my mentor at work:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me:  I don't like this project I'm on, it's boring, and I don't want to do it.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mentor:  I know what you mean, I've been there many times.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me:  How do I get through it?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mentor:  You fake it till you make it.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me:  Really?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mentor:  Yes, really, It's all about your attitude. If you walk into your kickoff meeting down about the project, bored, not excited, everyone will see it. Even if you're not feeling good about it, you have to fake it. Fake that you want to do this project, fake that it's a great project. Your enthusiasm will be contagious.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me:  I don't know if I can do that, pretend I want to do something I really don't want to do.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mentor:  Sure you can, just go in there and do it.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did. She was right. The enthusiasm spread. No one knew I was totally bummed by my project. Now I'm actually feeling a spark of excitement about it.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was work. This is weight loss. Same deal. Faking it till I make it. :)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Picture out of my office window today, right before I left work. Actually, I'm in a cubicle, this is what I saw when I stood up.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOpamaTPNlWbBADDKDoPdDeLzcA1q_KhAUOLlnufAYqUuPtDp2FnhA7FTTRlpu35y8BqmGqzkkyZ1KHUMSDNdcYMwnVP8wjJTUjTvff8qREuGy14rhVSG38947G8W9o5fvXKKwiSlwx3l/s1600-h/3Mar2010+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOpamaTPNlWbBADDKDoPdDeLzcA1q_KhAUOLlnufAYqUuPtDp2FnhA7FTTRlpu35y8BqmGqzkkyZ1KHUMSDNdcYMwnVP8wjJTUjTvff8qREuGy14rhVSG38947G8W9o5fvXKKwiSlwx3l/s640/3Mar2010+003.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>

Fake it tll you make it

"Fake it till you make it" (also called "act as if") is a common catchphrase that means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence. The purpose is to avoid getting stuck in a self fulfilling pro…

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