Do you like you?

Who are you when you’re all alone?

It’s a question I ask myself often as it has been become increasingly important for me to match my insides to my outsides. There’s many pulls to be different from who we really are and I think the moments we feel most confused or that something is ‘off’ is because something about the way we’re acting or what we’re doing isn’t in line with what we really want or who we are.

The way I check in with myself about this is … who am I and what am I thinking about when I’m by myself and no one else is watching? Does that match what the rest of the world sees? Because as these two places match up, all our experiences become more genuine representations of our real selves bringing greater joy, freedom, and truth to the things we do and the people we interact with.

It’s so easy and certainly more comfortable to adjust what we say or do in effort to please the people around us but it isn’t honest. Sometimes being honest about who you are or what you really feel doesn’t make other people comfortable but it’s okay because it’s what’s true and at the end of every day all we have is integrity to ourselves.  

I listen to this song Try by Colbie Caillat many mornings as a daily reminder to go out into the world being fully me. The effort it takes to impress others is a waste of energy. A lil’ daily meditation a ‘la Colbie Caillat: “When you’re all alone, by yourself, do you like you?”

beyoubeyoubeyoubeyoubeyoubeyoubeYOU! :)