Why authenticity matters
Authenticity is the art of living in alignment with your own truth, irrespective of the world's noise.
If social media disappeared tomorrow,
And with it, everything you knew about politics or religion or the cult of “culture,”
If the pressure from family or your peers suddenly evaporated,
Who would you be?
Do you even have an inkling or fragments of memories of what it felt like to be YOU before the world had their say?
When you are all alone, what is it that you know to be fundamentally and irrevocably true about you?
What are you afraid to admit?
What do you actually take pride in but never own in front of others?
As Dr. Martha Beck so brilliantly explains:
The word integrity (from integer) means “wholeness.”
Living in integrity means expressing and doing what’s true for you in all situations. Depart from your truth in any way—offer a fake smile, flatter your awful boss, marry for money—and you become two people: the truth knower and the lie actor. That’s duplicity.
And duplicity, not social noncompliance, is the real enemy of joy.
It’s also the death of true connection with anyone, including yourself. That’s why I say radical autonomy is the ONLY way to even stand a breath of a chance at having the life, love, and business you truly want.
So how about it? Where are you being inauthentic?
However well intended, are you ready to quit lying to yourself (and others) by living out of alignment with your own truth?
