It isn’t easy to be visible. It is a choice.
The choice to do the hard things, instead of the easy ones. The choice to be bold instead of playing it safe. I wanted to choose the easy options so many times. Luckily I had a manager who helped me see that choosing the safe option would have a negative impact on my career. I had to choose to take the risk and be bold.
Think about the choices that you make every day. Are you choosing to be visible or to hide? I know that for me I didn’t make this choice to hide with conscious thought. I was choosing the safer, easier way. The harder choice seemed overwhelming and bigger than I was ready for at the time. What I had to learn was that I could take small actions in a consistent way and it helped me be visible, but feel less overwhelm and fear.
There are consequences to the choices that you make.
They can have a negative impact on your career and keep you from achieving your potential. It is important that you make the best decisions that you can to give you the best opportunities to show your value. However, those decisions start with the self-belief that you can do more than you are doing today and that you can be more than others think you can. Choose to believe that you can be visible and you will actually start doing it. It will be far easier than you think.
Here is the video where I talk about the choice I had to make.
If you are ready to make a different choice about your visibility, then reach out and let me show you how easy this is to do. Set up time with me for a 30-minute conversation.