The question is, do you know yourself well enough to have an informed opinion of yourself?
When we rely on others for more than just feedback, and instead, we allow them to validate who we are, we essentially give them the power to define how we feel about ourselves.
Listening to what others think of you must be done with one single focus in mind.
It must be with the objective of determining whether or not the message that you intended was in fact the message that they received.
But that means that you must know what your message is.
What is your unique contribution?
Self-awareness shifts your focus from being aware of how others see you, to being aware of who you want to be.
Once you improve your awareness of who you want to be, you’ll begin to accept input from others as feedback on whether you’re achieving that goal, or not.
You won’t get distracted by trying to convince them to think kindly of you, or by feeling a need to defend what you’ve fallen short in.
It’s a subtle but critical difference, and the difference could be sanity and peace, versus going crazy looking for validation from people who themselves have yet to accept who they are.
Choose wisely, or else it will be a case of the blind leading the blind.
So…do you know who you are, or do you rely on others to validate whether you’re good or bad, likeable or annoying, significant or invisible?
It always starts with you.
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Confidently you…and only you
