How You Can Go Big When You’re Made To Feel Small

There come moments in your career when you’re made to feel small. It takes different shapes and forms. Yet, there’s a common denominator underlying it.

You’re made to feel, and play, below the value you know you have deep inside.

It usually looks like this:

• Your managers are not appreciating your contributions fully.
• You feel like your efforts are invisible.
• Everything you do needs to be reviewed and signed off again and again.
• You’re not treated like an equal partner in discussions.
• You feel cut off from key decisions that you should be a part of.
• You’re not truly empowered through tangible actions, everything sounds like empty rhetoric.

This happens in some of the most competitive environments out there. In fact, it often happens to some of the best performers.

Constantly having to prove yourself is exhausting. It never ends.

In the toughest moments, you feel like caving in. Maybe you truly are never enough.

So, what do you do when you are made to feel small?

The answer is simple. Go bigger.