You will keep shrinking yourself to fit in with a few dozen people who are hiding too, until you stop making yourself digestible.
In this episode of ONE | Shift, Mandi Lynne rounds out the significance series by connecting last week's spheres to your purpose: where you lack feeling significant is often a key to your calling. She shares her own work with self-expression and being heard, and how teaching turned out to be the exact place she once felt most limited. Mandi invites you to own your individuality without apology and offers a simple filter: it's better to make someone smile than to make someone squint. She explains why practice and exposure make expression easier, why detaching from other people's reactions builds real self-significance, and why making yourself digestible for a few dozen people is a kind of suffering. You'll learn:
How to connect the spheres where you feel least significant to your purpose
The smile-or-squint filter for sharing your gifts
How to detach from other people's reactions to you
Why your value doesn't come from being impressive, useful, or acceptable
Key Insight: "Your value does not come from being impressive, useful, acceptable, comparable. It comes from the qualities, the values, the strengths and the ways of being." Because you don't have to earn the right to acknowledge your significance.
This is your permission slip to stop shrinking and start living as the person you are.
Discover your first shift at mandilynne.com
This episode is Week 8 of the free, 16-week School of Self, the second week of the SELF-Focused phase.
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