You don’t need to overwork yourself to be seen
When we tend to be unsure of ourselves and our skills we drive ourselves into a place of doing things for approval.
This approval come by overworking ourselves just to feel competent. Thinking if we can put in more hours into the job we do we might come out looking competent to colleagues and employers.
Most people who have built up an overworking habit rarely do that from a place of growth. This way of life has been created by them just to fulfill a side of insufficiency in themselves.
Because they tend to feel undeserving of their position and sometimes feel like frauds at what they do, they think the easiest way to compensate for such shortcomings is by working extra hard to avoid disapproval.
These people find themselves feeling guilty anytime they decide to take a rest or give themselves time off from work.
Such a mindset is coming from a place of never recognizing their skill and the work they do in the organization.
With a mindset of constantly comparing themselves with their colleagues, they never get to properly give their best in the job they do.
They have been known to equate overworking with being competent, known to equate being all over the place as being productive.
When you suffer from such a mindset you are suffering from the superhuman type of imposter syndrome who think they can only get the recognition they deserve by working extra hard and tend to feel guilty any time they decide to have rest.
The solution to this is having and creating self-compassion. Learn to approach your work and skills with kindness and a healthy mindset. Recognize that sometimes we fall into a place where we question who we are and what we bring to the table. Don’t let yourself be held back by that.
Secondly, Learn to seek out opinions on how you can improve the work you do. Talk to a senior colleague and they can help with pushing a fresher perspective to you on how you can beat imposter syndrome
