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How To Be A Beginner

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How To Be A Beginner   Have you ever washed the pots before? Well I hope you have! Picture that sponge you use to remove the dirt from your plates (yes, that yellow and green one). To be a beginner, you have to embrace being one, embrace the fact you don't know it all and you must be a sponge when taking in all the new information and insight you're gaining.  Be A Sponge Try and Let Go As a beginner, it's important to try and let go, specifically letting go of thinking you will be good or know everything straight away. We can have  perfectionist tendencies , I experience this myself: that idea of wanting things to go to plan all the time and almost be 'perfect'. To build confidence it's important to embrace mistakes and failure and understand this is part of the journey.  Track your progress , for example, by journaling. Let's say you are starting a new job, after your first day write down how it felt, what went well and what you feel you could improve. Goin...