Yo, hey everyone. Today's message from me is short, sweet and simple. It is all about

using self-deprecating language, putting yourself down, talking yourself out of things and doing

this in front of other people. If this is a habit, if this is something that

you do, this week, let's stop. Okay, let's stop. We are not doing that anymore. When you talk

yourself down, when you use self-deprecating language in front of other people, you not only diminish

your own confidence, but you diminish other people's confidence in you as well.

When you walk into a space, into a room, into a meeting, your potential and your energy walks in that room with you.

And when you start playing yourself down and self-criticizing, you just, you undermine yourself and your contribution and your contribution

is valuable. What you know is valuable, who you are is valuable, your energy, your expertise,

your ideas, all of it. It's important and it matters. So let's stop doing that. Let's not do it

anymore. And if it comes from a place of imposter syndrome, so feeling like, oh,

I don't really know absolutely everything about this project or why am I the person to come in

and deliver this talk or, you know, I feel that too. We all feel it. I think it's part of human nature.

I think it's, I think if you didn't feel any, any element of imposter

syndrome ever in your life, I mean, you'd probably be a psychopath. I think as someone who

writes down my ideas, you know, as an author, as a writer, I constantly have that feeling

that's like, well, who made you an authority on this, Adrienne? But the reality is the way I construct the idea,

the way the examples that I use, the way I'm sharing the idea in the message, it will have value

for some people. My contribution will be valuable for some people. And that's all I need to know,

and that's all the permission I need to write my ideas down and to share them with the world.

So if I were to caveat every single thing that I write and every single thing that I say and do by saying, oh, just to let you know, I'm not really sure about if I'm the right person, you should be listening to, then you're not going to trust that what I have to say is

important either. And I know that it's a habit for many people. I think it's a British thing. I don't

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