How to Stop Undermining Yourself at Work: 12 Habits
You undermine yourself at work every time you soften your language, shrink your body, or defer credit you've earned. To stop, you need to identify the specific habits—linguistic hedges, apologetic emails, passive body language, and deferential meeting behaviors—that silently erode your credibility. Then replace each one with a concrete alternative. This article breaks down 12 of the most common self-undermining habits and gives you exact scripts and replacement behaviors for each.
