Susan Britton spent decades avoiding competitiveness because childhood taught her it was boastful. She flipped the story: now she channels that drive toward learning to tolerate discomfort and reaching more people each week. Reframing a trait you rejected can unlock growth you didn't know was possible.
If I can take my competitiveness, this thing that's sort of in the shadows for me and I've rejected and I don't want to come across as competitive, I can take that out and look at it in the healthiest way possible and integrate it into this, this challenge that I find myself in. How can I be competitive about learning how to feel uncomfortable and getting more comfortable with what I was previously uncomfortable with? How can I be competitive with the number of people that I want to reach out to in a particular week? How can I be competitive? So I, I'm turning that competition thing from a negative, you're too big for your britches, don't be a showoff, whatever story I might have picked up from my childhood and made it a healthy concept so that I can integrate it into the things that I already have comfort with. That's, that's an interesting place.
Susan’s ICF Educator Award | The Heart Behind the Impact Katy Montgomery, PCC
