Authenticity is one of the biggest keys to success.

Overlooked easily by its simplicity it is not given the credence it deserves. Simply said you can become whatever you want to be but if you get there and you are not the person you want to be what is the point. Being authentic is being true to yourself. Listen to this episode as I share how to become authentic while being authentic. Sometimes I catch myself changing the way I interact with people or the things that I write. Sometimes I even try to almost filter myself. I remember when I first signed into LinkedIn I had a picture where I was wearing a suit and tie which is totally not me. I felt uncomfortable I felt out of place but I felt like this was what LinkedIn wanted me to portray. I read articles about how to effectively market yourself. I thought this was the right answer when I first started down this path only to realize how uncomfortable and how not fun it was to be something that you are not. I found that changing my photo to something more lively, something more like myself was a simple easy change but it is something that makes me authentic. The world is full of people that are trying to be like somebody else. There are so many amazing examples out there like Hollywood and all of the celebrities. It is easy to try to be like them but in the process you lose a good portion of who you are. In the process of losing this person you also lose the ability to sell your finest commodity... yourself. Being an unauthentic person is like dating someone for a long time only to find out that they are actually very horrible people. It is easy to fall into this trap and happens to many people. Success in life starts with being true to yourself and being true to those that you are around. You can be your strongest self when you stop worrying about what other people are thinking and you just be you. It's hard to be you when the world says you need to be a certain way and that is not the way you are. But all of the successful people in the world will tell you being yourself and selling yourself the way you are is the way to become wildly successful and have all of the fame and happiness that you think you want.