Donald Burns argues that the masks we wear to avoid rejection slowly kill us from inside. Taking off the mask is what a powerful person does, he says, and it's the only way to become who God created you to be.
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 going to. 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.
