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When You Lie to Fit in

22/4/2020

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When I saw this on Facebook, I laughed. And it’s stayed with me since.
 
It really, really made me think about how many times in how many situations I have tried to make myself into someone I am not in order to fit in. It makes me sad, because when I did this, I was lying! Lying to myself and everyone else.
 
And to carry the illustration further, I then thought about wanting things that aren’t mine to have. So, using the funny meme, let us suppose the cat wants the penguin job so he can enjoy the penguin ‘perks.’ But, at what cost? He can never go onto all four paws, he has to squawk and not meow, he has to swim in water(!), well… you get the point.
 
And, because I have experienced ‘faking’ it and pretending and maybe you have too— maybe you still are? —we all know how exhausting it is! At the end of the day, the cat has to know that that the penguin perks are not worth the soul destruction.
 
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Which brings me to something I read this week that speaks to our current social isolation/distancing situation; Being prevented from engaging in our external lives makes us either miss it or be happy to be away from it.

This also made me laugh because it just so precisely hit the mark!
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Are You Taking the Opportunity?
This has been said, and I’m repeating it because it’s very much hitting home for me; this situation can be the opportunity to make real changes. I am over trying to ‘fit in’ where I don’t belong—acting like someone I’m not. I am also clear on what I am missing and what (and who) I am happy to be away from.
 
Which is it for you? Are you missing your external life or are you happy to be away from it? What is this situation showing you about how you have been living your life?
 
Life Coaching is, at its core, helping you become more of who you really are. It is helping you move away from what you don't want and move toward what you do want.

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We all want to know what to expect, how to prepare and when we can resume making plans.
but with this, we just can’t.
We are forced to stay present and, at most, plan a day or two ahead.


If you'd like to think into the future of when this is all over,

I’ve created an audio visualization that takes you to your ‘future-self-after-this-episode’
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​"After This" Visualization 
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