Andy NearyI help insurance professionals turn brand awareness into business growth.

If you’re not getting attention, your prospects won’t know you exist.

23 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short spoken reflection by Andy Neary describing a childhood shaped by fear of comparison, failure, and judgment, which made him avoid attention and seek to fit in despite being “full of potential.” The piece frames attention as mostly negative in his early life.

You see, as a kid, I hated attention. I was a chunky kid. Attention for me was usually negative. Whoever had that happen in their life. Who's ever been at that point in your life where all the attention was on you, but you wanted to be anybody but you?
When I look back at my childhood, it is easy to describe my childhood. I lived in fear.
Fear of comparison, fear of failure and fear of judgment. I was afraid to put myself out there because I was so afraid what people would say.
So instead of trying to stand out as a kid, all I wanted to do was fit in. So it was easy to overlook me.
And my childhood could be described very easily. I was full of potential.
But nowhere close to living it.