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Unlock Your True Self: Four Steps to Live Authentically
Why it’s challenging to embrace your true self, and how can you change that.
Everyone wants to live authentically, so why is it so difficult?
It’s like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube in an auditorium of judgemental “Cool Kids” from your high school.
You want life to go smoothly, but living with Authenticity means showing off all your warts, awkward angles, and embarrassing dance moves.
Yet, if you are reading this, the odds are that you want to live a more engaged and less burdened life and dance like no one is watching. You just don’t know how. Why not?
You And The World Are Not Aligned
The world has a vested interest in fitting you into a neat box. Boxes are regular, predictable, and stack well. People are awkward, chaotic and come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes, which is inconvenient. That’s why your whole life, from your first report card to your social media feed, has been a subtle but persistent message telling you, “Be like everyone else, and life will go smoothly.”
But the “smoother” your life gets, the less it feels like your life. Instead, it feels like a long, exhausting march to the destination you…
