🙌Awaken your authentic self🙌

How to Be Authentic 🤔

Discovering and growing into your true self won't happen overnight. Instead, it's an ongoing process of learning, fucking it up, and learning some more!

🌹1. Live By Your Values

Living authentically means that you live according to the values and beliefs that you hold most dear, and that the personal goals that you pursue emerge from these. Finding your basic beliefs and making a commitment to live and work in accordance with them should be your first steps.

🌹2. Identify the Gap

Is there a difference between the person you know you could be and the one you are now?

Do you put on a mask when you're at work? Maybe you believe that's how a leader gets things done, so you're more abrasive with your team than you'd like to be. Perhaps you take a fun approach to your work because you don't want people to think you're boring. Alternatively, perhaps you have a ton of ideas but you never share them because you fear your colleagues will think they are shit!

🌹3. Live With Integrity

Integrity requires bravery to cultivate and maintain. Analyse your everyday decisions to start. You will often intuitively know what the right and wrong choices are: your goal is to learn how to listen to that "small voice" – that sense of unease – that tells you that something is wrong. Study each choice that you make, and ask yourself which one will make you feel good about yourself the next day. Take responsibility for the decisions you make and put in great effort to make up for any errors.

🌹4. Communicate Honestly

Speaking your mind while honoring the wants and feelings of the other person is a sign of honest communication. Emotional intelligence and effective communication are required for this. Communicating honestly also means keeping your promises – if you give your word to someone, then treat it as a bond. Never pledge something you are unable to fulfill, people hate that!

🌹5. Don't Make Assumptions

It's simple to assume the worst about others as you go through life. If passing judgment isn't absolutely required, do your best to keep your bloody mouth shut! Take people at face value and let their actions speak for themselves.

Claire - Sentient in Harmony 🌹x

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