How to overcome feeling 'not good enough,' from a leadership coach—and keep it from hindering your career

It may sound trite, but Amina AlTai believes that anything is achievable with the right mindset.

The key, in her view, is to “expand your belief system of what’s possible for you,” says AlTai, a leadership coach and author of “The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living.”

Many people are held back in their careers by “limiting beliefs,” AlTai says: negative, often subconscious thought patterns that hinder us from reaching our full potential.

For example, a common limiting belief that AlTai encounters among her clients is imposter syndrome, or feeling “not good enough.”

People with imposter syndrome often struggle with thoughts like “I’m a fraud, and someone’s going to figure out that I don’t know what I’m doing,” AlTai says.