The importance of authenticity
With social media capitalizing trends and a society built on compromising individual values for success, it unfortunately has made it tremendously difficult to remain hopeful in the idea of authenticity.
Every social media course demands to pick a niche and stick to it, disregard the tumultuous nature of life, and stay with the formula. People want to rely on you giving them the same thing everyday, they find comfort and peace in knowing what you will bring.
I can appreciate that, I mean who wouldn’t crave consistency in a constantly changing world? But, is that realistic? And more importantly, is that authentic?
Being disingenuous is draining. Showing up as one thing all the time with you are a person filled with complexities and waves of expression is hard work. Or to cover the contrast, trying to keep up with changing trends and keep changing when you are static will feel like a non-stop chase with no avail. Being anything other than yourself is going to be a recipe for failure.
Success and personal fulfillment take dedication over time. It’s a long haul, not a short sprint. Expelling energy to be anything other than who you truly are is going to sabotage your ability to maintain a disciplined pace.
When starting this platform myself, I was faced with the prospect that self-improvement, intentional living content is all very similar. Clean minimalist designs, a tidy and trendy well-spoken person giving poignant advice with stock photos and footage, and a touch of flaunting an expensive lifestyle with little monetary concern. I contemplated how I want to talk about random things with random people, how can’t help but approach things with a feeling of comfort and humor, my compulsive explicit language and my scrawny bank and how none of these align with what the niche operates around.
And don’t get me wrong, I did include some of the standard staples, but ultimately, my short form content and podcasts are filled with fucks and silliness as much as wisdom and considerations of intentions. Why? Because the concept of me putting effort into shrinking myself into a mold is not realistic, not authentic, and would be massively hypocritical considering the whole point of all of this is to build the life I (and you) exist for.
I do not exist to appease an algorithm or expectation. I exist to live a life I love.
Your authenticity is so important for your happiness. Whether it’s on social media or in your relationships or with what you do with your time. You have to honor your own unique humanity. It is the magic. It is the guide. It is THE thing to get you the life you were meant to have.
If you don’t honor yourself authentically, you will get the life meant for the person you are pretending to be. Not the life meant for you.
I think your true self is beautiful and I cannot wait to meet you fully.
- Dani 💙💚
<3 I think about authenticity alot. It is like spritually advanced honest, more than just a not lying. :)
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