Finding your roar
Life is funny sometimes.
We see people who we think are more successful than we are. Who have more clients, more friends, more followers. Whose words flow more fluidly, whose bodies move more gracefully, whose voices sound more harmonious.
We see these people and we want what they have, what ever It is. We want to be them. So we play with mimicking them, we try to do things just like them.
And then after a while we can’t really remember what our own voice sounds like. Or why we do this thing we do. Or what it means to be and be satisfied with our Self and our own way of being in the world.
Here’s the thing. The thing I’ve learned over and over, again and again.
We can’t be anybody else.
We can only be who we are.
And maybe our words aren’t as fluid and maybe our bodies aren’t as graceful. Maybe we don’ t have as many friends or clients. Maybe our life isn’t as glamorous as we think theirs is.
This is all okay. Because that person who seems to have it all, they don’t. And there are people who…
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