Do You Battle Impostor Syndrome?

What is imposter syndrome? It's having unproductive thoughts about yourself and your capabilities.  Here's what Kat Ambrose at Fast Company wrote after she had reached a milestone in her freelance writing career:

Seemingly out of nowhere, negative thoughts and voices popped up. You don’t deserve this. You had someone help you. This doesn’t count. You don’t know what you’re doing. You’re not a writer.

Ambrose was experiencing impostor syndrome, the belief that one is inadequate, a failure, or a fraud despite proof of success.  She goes on to say that impostor syndrome shows its ugly head in three different facets of entrepreneurship—in client work, when growing business, and in professional development.

See what else she unearthed and determine whether you fall into any of these gnarly traps.