Why original and genuine sharing matters

I was tweeting Sunday morning and Martin Allsop (@GloriousYou) posted a quote from Brian Tracy: “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”

A worthy goal, I immediately thought. And drawn to it, I quickly and deftly retweeted, then headed over to post it to Facebook. Once there, though, I stopped. I stopped to think whether I actually agreed with the quote. Is peace of mind the highest goal to organize one’s life around it? And when I got quiet and thought about it, I realized that I don’t think it is—at least not for me (YMMV).

For me, for that to be an accurate statement it would have to be, “Set love as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”

What would it be for you?

In your practice, being authentic is critical, assuming you want to attract clients who are ideal for you. You can’t wear a mask, pretending to be who you aren’t, and expect to attract people you actually WANT.It just doesn't work that way.

And so it behooves you to make sure that what you take into yourself, and what you share with others, reflects who you really are.

The world of social media makes it oh-so easy to repeat things that sound good. That quotation sounded good to me that morning. But when I checked in with myself, I realized that, while good, it really didn’t reflect my belief, or share something of who I am.

So better than blindly posting it because it sounded good, what I could have done was reframe it, so that what I shared on FB would have been a better representation of me to the people who choose to look at what I have to say.

It’s easy to retweet, repost, or simply quote people who have had interesting original thoughts. I’m just not sure that it serves us, always.

So today, an invitation from me to you to not blindly share things that come from others, and to consider, instead, how to make things your own so that what gets shared is more about your sharing yourself than an easy sharing from someone else.

It’s an invitation to stop and check in with yourself when you read things. ANYTHING, actually—whether it’s in the bible, a quotation from someone famous, or what I write here in this blog. If you’re like me, and, I suspect like most people, there will be things that instantly attract you (like that quote attracted me), but that, if you stop and think about it for a sec, won’t necessarily be spot on for you.

The good news is, nothing anyone else says or writes or thinks or shares has to be spot on for you. You are free as a bird to happily adapt, change, or even disregard anything you read or that anyone says to you. In fact, I encourage you to develop this mental inquiry, this mental check in with yourself to challenge yourself so that the world you live and work in is a more authentic (for you) place. What fits, fits. Just be sure that what you’re accepting for yourself and sharing with others is right for you and an honest representation of what you think and believe so that people get an accurate view of who you are and where you stand in the world.

With regard to your Virtual Assistance practice, it can only help you, as people get an actual and genuine view of who you are and can choose for themselves whether you’re the sort of person that they want to consider doing business with.

Attraction based on what’s genuine will always trump attraction based on misrepresentation. – Me

Or, said more famously, “It’s better to be hated for who you are, than loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide

Comments

[Alex Posicionamiento Web]

Being original is very important especially in blogging because of the word "plagiarism". But even if plagiarism is not involved, it is really important to be original or have a genuine content. Copycats are people who think that by just copying they can compete with other people but they are not aware that being the first and being the original will always be the best.

This article is very inspiring! Thanks!

Alex

[Stacy]

Thanks for hopping into the conversation, Alex! The plagiarism thing is HUGE anymore, isn't it?

I think people don't realize that copying is illegal, *and* can really screw with their credibility, too.

And when they copy someone they know? It can be so damaging to relationships.