This is my first rodeo.

I love the western expression, "This ain't my first rodeo."  It has all the cowboy cool of "hey, I know what I'm doing" with plenty of swagger and confidence.

Cowboy, including cool, swagger and confidence.

And of course, sometimes we say it even when it is our first rodeo. Sometimes it's better to fake it until we make it, to feign competence until we attain it.

Cowgirl, also confident, slightly less swagger.

Real Cowgirl, who is so confident she doesn't even need a hat or swagger.  And she's actually working with Cows, near San Francisco Creek, Colorado.

And, sometimes it's good to confess I have no idea what I'm doing.  Help me. The trick, of course, is knowing which attitude to take when.