Daniela Ion discusses how authenticity requires looking inward to uncover what blocks you from speaking your truth. Self-worth acts as a magnetic core that attracts opportunities, and identifying your non-negotiables helps solidify it. The inner game of how you see yourself determines whether you follow trends or pioneer your own path.
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What does it actually mean for you to be authentic? For you to be standing strong on your own two feet and saying what you really want to say? When we are held back or suppressed or repressed from being who we truly are, what happens is that we don't ever, ever, ever step into our greatest path. We will always do things just above the line. I remember being told that once. If you don't stand on who you truly are, you will always just be under that, that point where you want to break free.
Authenticity means that you have to go back inside of yourself and see what it is that stops me from speaking my truth, from standing up in what I believe, and also why do I always have to play small when I know that I'm supposed to play big.
This is all an inner game. The whole thing is an inner game. Everything is all about how you see yourself.
I want you to tune into what it is that you have kind of put roadblocks or stumbling blocks in front of you where you haven't been able to be your authentic self or When you're around other people, do you sort of stop or not express what you truly want to say? Or is it even in your creative endeavors?
Do you do things that maybe, well, that's trendy, or that's because what everyone else is doing? Or are you really a pioneer and going to step out and do what you believe you have been called to do? This is all part of authenticity, which is always connected to the heart, and it's always connected to yourself, worth.
Your self-worth is far more important than anything out there because that's how you will have the opportunities, magnetism, manifestations. Everything that you deserve and desire comes through self-worth. But you have to find your authenticity. You have to dive deep into your truth.
The things that you stand by, what are your non-negotiables? What is it in life that you're not going to allow anyone to take away from you?
What will you do that makes a massive, massive, massive change in your world first, so therefore it can come out into the outer world?