Be YOU. Unapologetically.
It’s that gift-giving time of year. Why not give yourself more of YOU this year? When the hustle and bustle settle down 3 minutes after the last present is torn through on Christmas morning, and life starts to settle into the post-holiday quiet, what if we all take a few minutes and recommit to some of life’s most POWERFUL principles:
1. YOU have value and YOU get to contribute
2. If YOU aren’t satisfied with your circumstances, don’t sit down, shut up, and take it. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
3. YOU can do more than you think you can, and when you focus on what’s possible instead of where you are it fundamentally changes you.
Someone told me a few weeks ago, I should take some money and be okay with compromising what I wanted, and even compromise my standards. It would be the “practical” thing to do. It would be easier. I should just be “pragmatic”.
Of course it felt more than a little icky, but the farther I get away from the conversation …. The MORE IT PISSES ME OFF.
HELL NO I don’t compromise my standards, and I don’t settle – even if there’s money. I got told that when someone took my last business. I wouldn’t waste five minutes to even consider it then. I’m ten years chronologically older now, and 100 years “shit kicked out of me” experienced older, and sweetheart, It’s not going to happen.
I. Don’t. Settle.
There is a great big world full of good – hell – GREAT people. They won’t stay in circumstances that are beneath them. They don’t settle for less than they deserve. They don’t compromise WHAT IF for what’s pragmatic.
Always be very careful about who you listen to. If anyone is ever trying to hold you back, push you down, limit your potential – BEWARE. It will make you feel like you need to go take a shower for a reason. They’re wrong. You’re right. Don’t settle. Literally or mentally show them one finger and fight like hell to go be who you want. Be YOU. Be unapologetic about it. Even if you get criticized for it. You will, and you won’t regret it for a minute.
THAT’S a gift we all deserve. Merry Christmas, or whatever it is you celebrate. Give YOU back to you. You deserve it.