Find your inner gumboot fairy

I was chatting with someone recently and she said, whimsically, 'I just wish I could release my inner hippie at work'...  (She works in a male-dominated, uniformed institution where hippies are not usually seen unless they're out the front, protesting.)

When I asked if the person she lets others see is the Real Her, or someone else, she reluncantly admitted that it was the latter.

Lots of us do this.  If we keep other people at arm's length, they're more likely to find us acceptable.  Less likely to notice our flaws.  We're more likely to fit in - and one of the top three fears most people have is of 'not belonging'.

Another friend sent me the photo, above, of her two-year-old daughter in a fairy dress and gumboots and the caption 'one day she will conform'.   Sadly - odds are that she will.

Start today

Who is your inner 'gumboot fairy' and when was she last seen?

Think of your 'authentic self' - the person you were originally, before layers and layers of 'conditioning' by the world shaped you into the person you now let other people see.

The Real You believes in herself and is 100% valuable and confident.  She wants to be authentic in every situation.  She thinks she looks fantastic in gum boots!

She doesn't doubt and second-guess, doesn't conform or shape herself to fit someone else's idea of 'normal'.  This authentic version of yourself won't put up with a situation or pretend things are better than they are, because that isn't being true (and that's exhausting).

Imagine the effortlessness of living when there's no more 'act'.  Think of the freedom of being YOU in every situation... hippie, gumboots and all, and having confidence in that person...