by Cassie Howard | Sep 18, 2016 | Business Basics |
Lessons are everywhere. They’re a part of life. And they’ve definitely been a big part of my life and my entrepreneurial journey. Less than 2 years ago (and honestly, probably before that, too), I did something that I’m not proud of (but I don’t regret, as it taught me a valuable lesson) – I WAS LYING TO YOU ON A DAILY BASIS. Every day I would show up and put on my mask. I would be who I thought you wanted me to be. I would say the words I thought you wanted me to say. I truly just wanted you to like me. I wanted to stand out in a group of thousands. Tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands, really. I wasn’t honest with you. It was all a facade. I created the “perfect Cassie” in my head and I delivered her to you every day, cringing every time because it just didn’t feel RIGHT. It didn’t feel like ME – And that’s because it wasn’t. It wasn’t ME, the real me, that I was sharing with the world. It took someone on the outside, someone who knew me offline, to notice and basically shake the shit out of me, saying “why are you one person online and a different person offline?“. Good fucking question. And so I stopped being two people from that day forward. I’ve never once looked back. I’ve never once regret it. I gave up trying to be perfect (fuck perfect, anyway). I gave up trying to please everyone (as if that’s even possible). I gave up filtering myself and sounding like a motherfucking robot...
