Lesson 5: It’s okay to be you. Comparison is the thief of joy.

“Lessons I’ve learnt in business, running a business and working with other businesses in 2021.”

Well after yesterday’s overshare*, today has to be about being you.

About being true to you and not doing all of that comparison to other people schizzle.

Being you, being real and being honest with yourself is really quite hard sometimes.

Growing up in the world of comms, I was told I was a bit too loud, a bit too me and sometimes I needed to be more corporate, more proper, more grown-up and I felt maybe I needed to be a bit more posh and a bit less northern. And definitely less sweary.

So I watered me down and never felt totally comfortable. I felt like I was always going to be caught out.

Fast forward 20 years of running my own business and I realise that people buy me. People buy people. The whole sweary schizzle. That said I don’t do all of the swears in the big corporate training but I am honest about what people are getting when they buy me, they get real, they get practical and they get down to earth. I don’t want to stand in a room and feel uncomfortable and I don’t want to worry about being ‘found out.’

?So I’m just me. Wherever you work or whatever you do, you should be able to be you.

?Of course, we need to flex depending on the environment we are in, we need to be able to meet people in their model of the world, but we shouldn’t lose who we are and what we stand for.

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