How To Be Your Authentic Self

Why be yourself?

My motto is: you always need to be yourself to be truly happy. Because if you are pretending to be someone else, it will be too exhausting and you will always suppress things. If you are not authentic, people will also feel that something is not right. It will be more difficult to build trust and real relationships. Just be yourself, life will be so much easier. Answer the following questions:

• In which situation would you say, you are not 100% yourself? And why?
• In which situations do you feel you can be completely yourself? And why?

Who are you?

But who are you? Who is the real you? And how have you changed over time? You need to accept that once you find out who you really are, you will change in the future. The world is changing and so are you. And that is ok. You just need to identify it and accept yourself.

Start by going through these questions to discover who you are:

• What do you like about yourself?
• What do others like about you?
• What do you like about others?
• What do you dislike about yourself?
• What do you dislike about others?
• What or who would you be if you couldn’t fail?
• What makes you genuinely happy?
• What are you like when no one is around? What do you do?

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