Am at the final track of finishing out the a program on “Working with Negative Cognitions in the Workplace”. The material is about creating an evidence-based intervention that assists women in dealing with negative thoughts that hinder their self-efficacy at work. Why is self-efficacy key to success at work? because self-efficacy is about how confident we are that we will be able to successfully achieve our goals. When we believe we can be successful, we set higher goals, engage more complex tasks, take more risks, develop more creative solutions to problems.

We need to be self-efficacious when we design and pursue our life purpose. As luck would have it, pursuing a life purpose is often fraught with challenges, setbacks, and requires getting ourselves out of our comfort zone. We cannot fulfil our life purpose if we feel we are not good enough or not worth it. We cannot push ourselves past the limitations the world sets for us if we feel that we are incompetent. Building self-efficacy is lifelong work. Our strength of self-belief is not solidified by a pat on the back or a single success. Self-efficacy is the result of going toe-to-toe with ourselves and others constantly —continuing to achieve over long period of time, standing up again and again after failure, trying out new things and ideas, continuous learning . To lead in a man’s world against misogynistic ideals takes inner strength and equanimity too. Kudos to all the women who stand up for women, therefore making gender equality more reachable for the little girls today.