Your Insecurity Is Showing
Your maturity is revealed by how much of the room you don’t need to take up.
You don’t have to be the center of every story.
You don’t need to one-up every testimony.
You don’t have to fill every silence.
Sometimes, insecurity disguises itself as confidence—it talks loud, moves fast, and always has something to say. But real confidence listens. It creates space. It doesn’t need to steal the spotlight to feel seen.
When leaders make everything about themselves, they unintentionally communicate that there’s no room for others to rise. They shrink the team’s potential down to the size of their own personality.
Today: Let someone else lead the meeting, the moment, or the idea.
Be present, be supportive—and don’t hijack the space
Yes, Jon.
Acute insecurity. What a bondage. I suffered from it for much of my life without an awareness of it. Yes, it either drives us to in some situations to being uncomfortable with such insignificant situations like pregnant pauses in conversations. It drove me from the subconscious need to control swinging to the opposite direction of not saying anything for fear of sounding unintelligent. It drives us to overreact from one extreme to another. It’s insidious. Leaders must recognize it and understand the root cause of it and how to be freed from it.