Be Yourself
It’s easy to see someone else’s success and want to copy what they did in order to achieve similar results.
It’s easy to be seduced by the allure of the “dream life” that somebody else appears to be having, especially in the insta-facebook world that we live in.
It’s easy to hand over hundreds or thousands of your own hard earned dollars or even worse, borrowed money that you can’t afford to pay off in the first place, in order to purchase a course/program/workshop/retreat being sold by somebody who is selling you a promise of a better life.
Now here’s the problem…
You are unique. There’s only one you, and you’re going to do things in ways that come naturally to you.
You’re going to be persuasive and negotiate the way you always have since you were a child.
You’re going to teach, empower, inspire in a way that only you can.
You’re going to connect and communicate in a way that is specific to you, and your upbringing, and all the millions of choices made by you throughout your life that has led you here.
Copying someone else’s system or process — that worked for them because they went through a process of WORKING IT OUT for themselves through hard work, commitment, and getting up every time they fell down — will not serve you.
My entrepreneur friend and startup mentor Matthew Ho recently wrote that “all advice is wrong”. This a snippet of what Matt had to say:
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen is when people blindly apply the advice they’ve been given or something they’ve read. Advice is not always directly transferable (in some cases it is). Conversely, adopting part of an advice sometimes means you don’t get the full effect of it either.
Hence, its important to question the advice you’re given. To understand and appreciate the context its given in.
Authenticity and intuition are your superpowers. (Tweet this)
These are what will endear you to others, and when you SHOW UP AS YOURSELF and do things YOUR WAY, and not because some guru told you it was the best way (they would only know the best way for themselves and claiming otherwise is irresponsible of them).
Focus on the STRATEGY that is uniquely yours, and act from that place.
Observe what happens. The world will thank you for it.
Isn’t it time that you stopped showing up for somebody else’s seminars and started showing up for your own? (Tweet this)
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“For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneelsThe record shows I took the blows
And did it my wayYes, it was my way.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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