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This is Laura.

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Today's tip is to focus on the services you are providing to other people

and not on yourself. Doing so does tend to raise your profile over time but has the upside of making you less

self-conscious.

However, your profile goes.

Today's tip comes from Shira Gill,

who writes about organizing and decorating, and it's the author of the forthcoming book

Lifestyled. In her sub-stack newsletter Shura offers five lessons for

entrepreneurs drawn from her 15 years of entrepreneurship.

Lesson one was to focus on service over ego.

She writes, I've found that when imposter syndrome sneaks in, the best way to get out of my own way

is to shift my focus from, am I good enough, To how can I help?

She goes on to say that scaling while keeping service first and ego second

will result in growth that feeds your spirit and bottom line.

I think this advice generally makes sense for entrepreneurs and employees alike.

I do a lot of public speaking and I could obsess forever about how I look on stage and

whether I'm wearing the right shoes and things like that. But ultimately that just makes me nervous and

doesn't do much for anyone. I am better off focusing on whether I am helping my

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