by Cassie Howard | Mar 13, 2017 | Business Basics |
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I wasn’t being professional and to “tone it down a notch”, I’d have a massive pile of loonies right now ($1 coins, for my non-Canadian friends!). A few years ago, it would have bothered me to hear someone tell me I wasn’t technically “doing it right”, when it came to their idea of running a business (and living life, in general!). Being a self-reformed people-pleaser, it was always a hard pill for me to swallow when someone shot me a comment about being – Too loud Too abraisive Too bitchy Too arrogant Too WHATEVER I always hated when someone didn’t agree with the way I chose to do things. And the more I was ME, the more I showed up and was truly authentic about who I am as a person (after years of faking it and trying to please everyone got the best of me), the more the haters reared their ugly heads an started to judge me. Started to assume they knew better. Started trying to tell me how to run my business. To which, of course, I gave them the finger and went along my merry way – Being ME. Speaking my truth. Saying what I feel called to say. Doing what feels right. And that won’t always resonate with people. In fact, it POLARIZES most people and doesn’t resonate at all. Which is exactly what I want. 🙂 Because spending time with, supporting, working with people that just don’t like me for me and who don’t agree with the way I think? Are not really...
