Be proud of who you are – QFY 451
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We hide behind who we are. Instead of allowing our uniqueness to shine, we hide and follow what everyone else does. We already have enough sameness in this world. We need more different. We need more original ideas, new ways of thinking and creative perspectives. We need more of you – just like you are. So lets not hide and be proud of who we are. Someone in this world needs us to be that person – so lets find out how we can shine for them.
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Episode 451 – Be proud of who you are
- Protect the things that make you YOU
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- The things that make you different can be looked at as strange, weird, and not normal
- But they can also be looked at as unique and special and authentic
- You see the world through a different lens
- And I always say
- Different is good
- Because we need more different
- We already have plenty of the same
- Everyone following the same old plans and routines
- The 9 steps to this and
- The 30 day plan to that
- The 4 year program to there
- And the fast track to here
- We need more different
- We already all think the same
- Resulting in judgment, prejudice and fixed mindsets
- Wear this because that doesn’t match
- Do what he says because everyone follows him
- Stay away from them over there – they are bad
- We already all try to fit in, look the same, act appropriately and follow the norm
- We desperately need more different
- We need more colors in this world
- We need more ideas
- We need better ways of thinking
- We need unique approaches
- We need alternatives,
- We need a new way
- A different path
- An experience we haven’t yet had
- we need more of YOU
- We need more of you because everyone else is scared to be more of themselves
- Everyone already hides behind I cant
- Everyone is a victim of their circumstances
- And therefore they can’t
- We need more of you because you are about possibility, while everyone else is about limitations
- I know what you are thinking
- I know because I thought the same
- Who am I?
- What do I have that the world needs?
- I grew up in a small town in East Germany
- Who cares about me?
- I don’t have any special skills or unique talents
- I am just a regular person
- You are not JUST
- Whenever you find yourself saying or thinking a sentence that starts with these 3 words
- I am just ….
- Hold up
- And change them to
- I am more ….
- You may be an office worker, a teenager, a gym rat, a weirdo, a nerd, a gamer, a skateboarder, an awkward kid, a mom, a security guard, a clerk
- Whatever you are
- Whoever you are
- BUT – you are not JUST
- We are more
- We are more of what this world needs
- And this world needs a lot
- In this world,
- Where everyone follows someone
- Where we still have wars over our beliefs
- Where we try to get by with easy and avoid what is hard
- In this world – we need you
- And YOU have so much to offer
- you have to find what more is
- Because if we tell ourselves these 3 words all our life, we believe them
- We believe we are JUST that
- And we don’t see anything else
- And when opportunities arise, doors open, and special circumstances unfold
- We decline
- Because we cant see ourselves as MORE
- We are more than just
- And we have to start seeing it
- Because when we don’t see it, nobody else will see it
- We cannot wait on the world to acknowledge us when we don’t first acknowledge ourselves and give ourselves credit for WHO WE ARE
- And we are something
- We are all special
- We are unique
- We just need the courage to let our uniqueness shine
- We need to allow ourselves to be BE
- And it starts with this:
- Protect the things that make you YOU
- Protect your authenticity
- Your special gifts
- Your unique viewpoints
- Your perspective
- Acknowledge them
- Protect them
- Don’t hide from them
- Honor them
- And them find a way to share them with the world in a positive way
- Express them consciously
- Share them with others
- Find a tribe of people that appreciates them and that helps you develop them even further
- But never give up on them
- Never forgo who you are so you can be someone you are not
- You have your gifts and your uniqueness for a reason
- So find a reason to bring them out and let yourself shine
- Many of the masters of this world were laughed at, ignored, sometimes even killed for their revolutionary ideas
- Ideas we now admire, study and follow
- They were the strange kid
- The outsider in their communities
- The one everyone avoided
- They were …. Just like us at some point
- So don’t be JUST someone
- BE YOU and BE MORE
- find what more is – dig inside of you
- That is the journey of this life
- That is the Quest For You
- To find your authenticity and to bring it to this world
- I want to see it!
- I want to see YOU
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