Zelfs op de beste dagen

Good evening. The rain is pouring outside as it has been for most of the day, and I just awoke from an hour power-nap before I need to get a little more work done tonight.

I have dedicated the past two days to meetings and ideation for businesses, doing my German (and some other) university work, and dreaming. On one hand, they have been incredibly exciting, productive, and fun, and on the other, so draining.

Tomorrow morning we’re expecting our biggest momentumclub meeting yet, and I’m feeling so many emotions leading up to it. I know that the tone I set tomorrow will make or break the organisation in it’s early days.

The support that I have received reaching out to founders, entrepreneurs, developers and more over the past few days has been extraordinary. Pitching my vision for this organisation, and having back to back to back meetings with interesting people has been so rewarding to be able to share my thoughts and my work and what I have to bring to the table to help make Maastricht the place that it deserves to be, and to really put it on the map when it comes to startup innovation.

And yet I have also felt those feelings of impostor syndrome: am I really the right person for this? What experience do I have? What have I really done to deserve to be in this room?

I know that these are feelings that I must push through, perhaps even ignore, but I don’t think that ignoring them entirely is a sensible idea either.

Any tips or ideas?

Please email me: alex@rawle.nl

Whatever happens, I know that I’ll get through this.