Share Your Gifts (Part Two)

It’s easy to look at someone who makes music or paints pictures and say “I wish I could do that.”

The truth is you can. You just have to recognize what you’re seeing.

What makes the picture beautiful is the emotion it elicits–how it makes us feel.

We all have the power to create an emotional connection through sharing our gifts if we can:

• Accept that we have something unique to offer the world. That’s a big first step and it might take some time and exploration to convince yourself that this is true but I hope you’ll get there. Perhaps a better way to think about it is we all have the opportunity to tap into energy that allows us to contribute, connect, and inspire in our own unique way.

• Have the courage to share that unique thing with the world. This is much harder than it seems when there’s a barrage of information and influence telling us who we should be and what we should be doing.

I hope you’ll take this on.

Partially out of service. I know how it feels to pretend to be something you’re not or to live a life that feels muffled. When close friends have had the care and courage to tell me the truth and nudge me in the right direction it meant the world to me.

Partially out of selfishness. I want to experience what you create when you lean into your gifts. I want to have more thoughtful, personal, inspired experiences.

We don’t need another generic copy/paste brand or watered-down idea. We need you to tune out the noise, tune into yourself, and get to work!