Where Does Your Authority Lie?

Looking for an answer? Maybe take a look inside first:In writing a proposal I was in search of some statistics to support my claims.

Getting on the Internet I searched and searched for the proof I needed. The office of national statistics, employment stats, industry specific info….

And I quit. Nothing was quite meeting my need. In fact what I did was pull some general info together to fill in the blanks of an otherwise thoroughly researched paper, and ran it past my mentor….. 

He immediately pulled me to account. Had the whole proposal been generalised I may have got away with it (but not received the funding), but the disparity in the quality shone out…..

Back to the drawing board! 

I began again to ‘Google’ to find the information again, strangely enough encountering the same, non-specific, non-useful, over-generalised ‘stuff’ and realised I needed to do something differently.

I began to look inside. By which mean that I began to take a close look at my own business, at my own client base and at the trends I was seeing……

Only then did the specific information in needed fall into place. What I was seeing in my business was reflected in statistics ‘out there’. What I was seeing in my client base likewise. And the experiences my clients were sharing with me were evidenced too. This was where my answers lay, they were inside my world, not out there in the worlds of others.

There was a shift in me here. I placed trust in myself evidenced what I needed from me and my business. It felt good to own this information and to realise that I am enough of an authority on my field to be able to find the answers I need.

I learned a lot about myself. I learned a lot about my profession, I got the funding…….

Where does your authority lie? And whose voice are you listening to?
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