A short motivational monologue by Donald Burns urging listeners to remove their metaphorical "masks" of pretense and live authentically. Burns frames the mask as protection against rejection and judgment that ultimately suffocates personal growth, and he issues a direct call-to-action to embrace one's God-created identity and make changes.
That mask might protect you from rejection. It might protect you from judgment, from criticism, but it's also going to suffocate you. It's gonna. It keeps you from breathing in life that you are meant to live, from reaching the heights that you are destined to climb. And every day that you wear it, you're slowly dying inside. The powerful person is the one who has taken off the mask and said, enough is enough. I'm done living a lie. I'm done being who the world wants me to be. And I am all ready to be who God created me to be. It is time to take off the mask. Will you embrace who you are? Or will you keep playing the same game? Let's go. Let's do this. Reach out. Let's make some changes.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
