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Have you ever known or met someone that is so authentically, uniquely, and confidently themself that it is almost inspiring? You know the kind of person I am talking about - the person who is totally unashamed of who they are and lives their best life without care of how society might judge them. I think these people really have life figured out and there is a lot we can learn from them.
A few hours ago I got off of a Zoom Album Release Party for one of my friends who just wrote and released his second album. Essentially he got a small group of around 15 people together to listen to his album and give him feedback. It was a really fun experience! The thing that really got to me though was my friend’s unwavering confidence in himself. I think a lot of people don’t do things because they are afraid of what others might think \\or say, but my friend is living proof that you don’t need others’ approval to be happy and confident in yourself. Granted, I think his album is great, but he had no idea what we were going to say entering that Zoom call - we could have all hated it for all he knew.
His album is the second volume of what he is calling his College Transition Journal. Essentially all the songs are about personal lessons and realizations that he has had during his transition to college - it is really unique and also really cool! (If you want to check it out click here: AppleMusic, Spotify) But instead of waiting in fear to hear what people think of it - he just went straight to the source and asked his closest friends for their honest feedback - he wasn’t scared that people might not like it; he was confident in what he created and nothing was going to change that. I honestly think that even if we all said it was terrible, he would’ve taken it as a learning experience and would have proceeded in life with a happy eagerness to do better in his next album. That is something I think we can all learn from.
So that is my challenge to you this week: be authentically you! When I went off to college I was really worried about how I was gonna make friends and find people that I liked hanging out with. The only solution I could come up with was to just be my unique self and hopefully I would naturally end up with the right people - and boy did it work! By simply being myself I quickly found a community that is unlike anything I have ever known before and feel incredibly blessed. I think a lot of people are fearful that they don’t fit the mold society wants them to fit into, but I also think that the truly happy people in this world have realized that the only molds that exist are one’s we create for ourselves - so they forget about all these pressures and just be themselves.
Stay Motivated,
-Dan
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