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Day 45

How willing are you to live your dreams while still being who you were when you first started?

Today, I was reminded that if you truly want to stand for something you believe in, you must be prepared for everything that comes with it, whether that's the good or the bad. You must accept everything that is part of the territory when you stand in your own belief. That's real authenticity, and that's being authentic, truly.

There are people, including myself, who like to say we're authentic. To be honest, these days, those words are more watered down than they ever have been. We see those words being tossed around by the greater influencers, and we also see that word thrown around by the mid-level influencers, regardless of the fact that we have come to this point where authenticity just gets blowback.

Now, for me personally, I will never stop using the word authentic. I in fact will always use the word authentic. Keeping it authentic is what you will hear me say a lot of the time, because more so I am authentic. And what I want to say is authentic doesn't just mean this is who you are, how you are for this moment of time. Authentic means being who you are all the time. It doesn't matter if the screen is on. It doesn't matter if the camera is in front of you. It doesn't matter if the president's in front of you. It doesn't matter who's in front of you. The person that you give them is the same person you would give your parents, your family, your siblings, your brothers, your mothers, your sisters. It's not that. That type of where we see a lot of today influencers that act like this or preachers that act like that, and then we see them in the in the news, few years, a month down the road, and they're out there being completely opposite than what they portrayed. In fact, it's quite a scary thought to think that these people are influencing society.

And so that's why I'm here. Personal branding, doing what I can do to show the road that it's going to take to get to where I want to be. I'm not going to cut no corners. I'm not going to embellish anything. I'm going to show you. I don't have much. I don't have many resources. I don't have many professional colleagues that can help. Help booster my my social evidence, social proof. I have AI. I have a few agents. I have a few YouTube mentors that I watch, and I have my experiences. I receive plenty of wisdom. That I know will help me in any time of need or any time that I need to logically make the best reasonable choice. I know it will help me discern from those that are intended to truly be supplemental in my life. Between those that are only using their resource of knowing me as a leverage tool, one thing that I've realized through life is that a lot, if not majority of the population, they like to say that they're truth truthful and. Honest and authentic. Yet when it comes down to it, when it's time to show up, because of the lack of crowd or the lack of likes, validation, I don't know where to be found. Unfortunately, that is how the game goes. That is the society we're in. What I've learned is authenticity, being authentic, being honest is the hardest choice to make because it's a choice you have to make every day. Every day when it asks you to show up, you have to make that choice.

Now it's not to say that you you can't make or you have a day where you're like I just don't feel like it. That in itself is actually being authentic. There's nothing wrong with that, and see that's the thing. Everyone wants to fit in. It's hard to say no. It's hard to deny, and so they accept and unknowingly they start building the grudge against whoever it is that they are doing favors for, doing things for. They build up a resentment, and before you know it, they end up treating them wrong. And it's ironic because really all the person wanted was just for that person to be honest. I've learned that you can be honest, you can be authentic to people, but that doesn't mean it's going to be reciprocated. A lot of the time they'll talk a good game and say, yeah, that's who I am, that's what, that's how I move—but like I said, when it's time for action, time to show true value, there's no action and done. You're left there just wondering where where was all that talk? Where was that?

See, there comes in an excuse, comes in comes into shift blaming, some form of gaslighting. Being authentic is truly hard. It means there's going to be people from all sectors that aren't going to like what you do. They're not going to agree with anything you say, and you could be saying the right thing. They could just not want to be in agreement with you. And that's the thing I started to notice about being authentic is that a lot of people can't do it.

That is why I choose to do it. I was never meant to fit in. I was always meant to stand out. I always knew that for some reason I was just different—the way I thought, the way I processed things, the way I was able to just be logical, take the logical approach, have solutions that people I thought would would actually be the ones to suggest it—yet were left. Just in awe. Like how did how did you come up with that? How did you know that? How did you do that? While all the while I'm sitting there like damn what you didn't know? This is quite a revelation to me.

So this is why I stand on business. That's why I stand up on any hill that I say that I stand on. You won't see me shift unless I do shift, you can guarantee a very sound and reasonable reason, because I actually sit there and think about, am I right? Am I where I'm standing? Is this the right place to be standing? Do I have every reason to be here and stand on here? And there's going to be times where no, it's not, where I have to get off and I have to go find that right hill. And a lot of people just can't do that. It's nothing to say I'm better than or I'm bigger than or nothing like that. Nowhere close to that.

It's just to say that my life has more clarity. There's sense of direction, purpose, meaning. Excuse me. But this is just making a reminder to everyone, to anyone that reads this, you're gonna have to stand for something or you will fall for everything. When you stand for that, stand on it. No matter the opposition, no matter who it is, if it's something you truly believe in, then you believe in that until the very end. If it costs your life, it's unfortunate but you'll be remembered for the things you did stand on. Even that type of legacy speaks much more volume than somebody that would rather choose to fit in.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Be Love, be Light. Know that the universe is always working in your favor!