Ep #146: How to Feel Confident (Even Despite Uncertainty)

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | How to Feel Confident (Even Despite Uncertainty)

If you’re a lawyer in legal practice, chances are your day-to-day experience is filled with uncertainty. I’ve had many lawyers, from junior to senior, confide in me that they feel a lack of confidence over some aspect of their practice due to the uncertain nature of their work, so if this resonates, you are most definitely not alone.

 

Lawyers live in a world where we’re expected to be confident. There’s the notion that lawyers are trusted advisors who are practically omniscient and whom other people turn to for answers. We’re expected to embody confidence, but how do we portray that when we operate in an environment with inherent uncertainty?

 

Tune in this week to hear how uncertainty influences your level of confidence and examples of the inherent uncertainty that exists in legal practice. I’m sharing some of the ways you might be trying to overcompensate for a lack of confidence, how this could create additional problems for you, and seven strategies that will help you cultivate confidence, even in the face of uncertainty.

 


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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
  • The dichotomy between confidence and uncertainty for lawyers.
  • Common examples of where uncertainty arises in legal practice.
  • Why uncertainty leads to a lack of confidence.
  • How you might be trying to overcompensate for a lack of confidence. 
  • Why overcompensating for a lack of confidence creates additional problems.
  • 7 strategies to help you cultivate confidence in the face of uncertainty.

 

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