Take the good seat

Women's confidence · Little Light original

You enter the room early and choose the chair at the edge, leaving the centre for someone more senior, more certain or more expected. It can feel polite to make yourself easy to overlook. After a while, the habit begins to speak before you do. Take the good seat sometimes. Sit where you can hear, contribute and be included without having to lean around everyone else. This does not declare you the most important person there. It quietly refuses to treat your participation as an inconvenience. You were invited, or you earned your way there, and your presence does not require an apology. Confidence is often less dramatic than it appears from a distance. It may begin with allowing your body to occupy the space your work already justifies. Fearlessness is not the entry price. Choose the chair, place your feet on the floor, and let yourself be fully there.

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