Staying True to Yourself Helps You Connect with Others More Genuinely, So Why Is It So Hard?

Whatever you do, you have a voice that is valuable to share.

This seems like a simple and cliché statement, but I’d say it’s actually quite difficult to take in.

The internet is full of people trying different strategies to capture the attention of others.

There are countless coaches and skill courses to browse through.

All often promise to help reveal THE REAL YOU and get the business you deserve.

And true, we are social creatures as humans.

We don’t advance in a vacuum, isolated away from others.

But often, in the din of flashy advertisements and polished corporate headshots,

We question and silence our own life experience power.

We look outside ourselves for “the break” or “that one opportunity”

And feel that once we get this ephemeral thing,

We’ll have made it; we’ll have figured it out!

Well, I believe that’s flawed thinking.

We already have a precious hoard of treasures inside of us.

Every year we have grown in our bodies, we’ve collected experiences

And I’d challenge you to see the wild beauty of that collective

Even though, or perhaps ESPECIALLY, it wouldn’t “fit” on a professional resume

Failures in communication you’ve had with dearly cherished friends,

Odd jobs where you feel “what in the tarnation am I doing here?”

Hobbies were zero capital is built, but you feel giddily accomplished and smile just because!

These sum experiences make us….. interesting, dynamic, fascinating, VALUABLE!

Here in a place liked LinkedIn, I feel that so many of us are caught double, triple, quadruple guessing ourselves

We feel in competition with others to put out polished content

To get those likes

To get those validating comments

And maybe, just maybe, to be noticed.

Gosh heck, do I relate.

It can strangle our inner voices to the point where the only thing that gets posted

Is the bleached, sanitized, safe, polished shadow of our true inner language.

But I challenge you to do this…

Tell yourself: I am perfect and complete exactly as I am right now, in this moment

My voice, my self, with all its eccentricities, is valuable

At all stages of life, at all stages of career; jobless, jobbed, and/or jobbing

We as humans can’t help but relate and feel seen when we come across words that have as few middle managers as possible, direct from the soul meat

So, what do you want to say?

What words are waiting within you, patiently and impatiently, to reach others?

You’d be surprised how much we want to hear you, see you

And you owe it to yourself to shine as well.

I look forward to seeing your light.

With love,

Skye