Authenticity - Why people aren't themselves and what that costs them

Do you know your best thinking has got you the life your currently living? To paraphrase Marianne Williamson 'your very best thinking has got you where you are'. So if you're living the life you don't like, you could do well to make use of other people's thinking - people are living the life you're interested in living. So, I've decided to talk about authors whose work I consistently find useful, illuminating and which, over the years, have helped me build the kind of life I enjoy waking up to in the morning. What I love about the writers in this podcast is that the authors write in a practical, no fluff no puff way. Ultimately as we read them the questions we're wanting to know are 'what difference will these ideas make to my life?' 'Can I apply them in a practical way?' For me, the answer is always to try out the ideas and ensure the authors speak to you, in a way that allows you to apply the ideas.

Why should you be yourself? The simple answer is ‘because everyone else is taken’ – it’s both the simple answer and an accurate answer. The important question is ‘why are not ourselves? We may have been raised in environments where it was dangerous to be who we are. We may as adults be working in environments that demand we be other than who we are in order to ensure job security. So we conclude, I have to be other than I am to get what I want i.e. love, safety, income etc. The breakthrough cracks us wide open and everything we’ve been taught is ‘wrong’ with us, all the things we’ve been taught make us ‘not good enough’ stares us in the face. Excrutiating at first but if we stay, refuse to take flight, we can transform. Now begins the re-acquainting ourselves with the ‘real’ us, all of it.