Week 4 - Dress the Part Before You Get the Part - January 22

The longer you wear pearls, the realer they become - Colette, Cheri (1920)

Ask
Do I talk about my dream with assuredness and hope? Can I smile when I really would rather not? Am I worried that I might be perceived as a fraud? Can I act "as if" and be scared at the same time? Do I have the tools I need to practice for the part? Does my imagine project what I want people to see? What if I never get the part?

I don't talk about my dreams with anyone really. The last person I shared dreams with was Marci. Everyone is busy with their own lives and not a great deal of time to share in my hopes when so much is happening in their own lives. If I can't have the jewelry dream, I have often pictured myself standing in the front of an audience speaking like at a conference. In  my head I see myself there as plain as day. But I worry that I would get up and speak and people will see right through me. I worry that I will never have something significant to offer a crowd like that, but that's what I got into my Masters for, to be bigger than I am, to offer something to the nursing professional


Practice:
1) I've always admired and even wanted to be like:
Donna Wright - nursing competency model speaker



2) The characteristics I most admire about this person are:
she is charismatic, engaging, physical in her presentation, confident, conversational, passionate about her topic


3) In order to act as if I've already won the part, I can alter my environment by:
Continue practicing in front of an audience, developing a presentation on something I am passionate about,

This one needs more work..