Are. It Is Easy To Get Pulled Away From Our Commitment To Ourselves In
The World Of Relationships As We Experience The Demands Of Other
People's Thoughts And Expectations Of Who They Would Like Us To Be.
The Greatest Gift You Give To Yourself Is To Just Be You.
Here Are Steps To Being Authentically You:
1¤ KNOW WHO YOU ARE:
When We Know Who We Are We Can Say No When We Need To Say Yes. We Know
What We Like Or Dislike And Are Not Insecure About It Or Other
People's Judgments Of Us. We Are Able To Coast Along In Life With A
Sense Of Well- Being Because We Are Solid Internally. When We Love
Ourselves We Will Not Change Who We Are To Gain Love And Approval.
2¤ AVOID FAKING IT:
Being Too Nice Makes Us Inauthentic. We Do This Because We Do Not Want
To Hurt Anyone's Feelings. So, We Pretend To Like People, Events And
Circumstances We Don't Like. A Certain Amount Of This Is Socially
Acceptable And Necessary. When It Is A Habit And There Is An
Oppressive Worry Of What Others Think About Us- This Is Unhealthy. We
Must Be True To The Truth Of Our Experience And Put That Out Into The
World.
3¤ NO NEED TO AUDITION:
When We Pretend To Be Someone We Are Not, We Set Ourselves Up To Be In
An "Audition" Mode. We Are Always Trying To Be What We Can Sacrifice
Everything To Give People What We Think They Want, When In Reality, We
Have Zero Control Over What People Think. When We Scale Back And
Simply Focus On The Genuineness Of Who We Are, There Is No Need To
Audition.
4¤ OBSERVE:
When Going Into A New Situation, Begin To Assess It From "Is This
Going To Be Good For Me?" And "Is This Going To Add To My Life And
Make Me Feel Good" Rather Than Approaching It From "What Do I Need To
Change Or Do To Be Good Enough For The Situation?"
5¤ BE TRUE TO YOURSELF:
It Is One Thing To Know Who You Are But Another Thing To Truly Act
Upon It. Do What Makes You Happy And Don't Waste One More Minute Of
Your Time Not Feeling Good Enough For Other People. When You Can Be In
This Place, You Will Be Taken More Seriously By Others As Well. When
We Are True To Ourselves, Others Can Sense It And Life Is Much More
Enjoyable.
6¤ WE CANNOT CONTROL WHAT OTHERS THINK:
What Other People Think Of Us Actually Has Very Little To Do With Us.
What They Think Of Us Has To Do With Their Own Prejudices, Fears,
Insecurities And Projections. When We See It From This Place It
Becomes Clear That It Is A Waste Of Time To Be Going Around Pretending
To Have Feelings We Do Not Have In An Effort To Avoid Abandonment And
Gain Approval.
All You Have To Do In This Life To Make It Happy And Significant Is
Just Be You. Be Who You Are. When You Are Out Pretending, You Are Not
Being Authentic. If You Are Not Being Authentic, People Do Not Really
Know Who They Are Dealing With And How To Treat You According To What
Your True Needs Are. There Is No One To Impress, Nothing Needs To Be
Done. Your Being Worthy Has Nothing To Do With Other People.
Little Life Message: We Are Most Loved When We Are Being 100% Ourselves.
