This past week I created new relationships and rekindled old friendships. In doing this I was reminded of the importance of creating and maintaining relationships. I had an awesome time meeting new people and allowing people to get to know me. In creating new relationships it is important that those you interact with grow to know, like and trust you for who you really are, not who you pretend to be. I believe this week my mission was to be my real self and to allow the people I interacted with to know, like and trust the real me. The people I met did the same, they took a risk and allowed me the opportunity to know, like and trust them on the same level.
I have realized the greatest relationships come when I am comfortable expressing myself and show up as the real me. It is like a piece of clothing… like a shirt… if I am not comfortable in my own “shirt” how am I going to be comfortable when I meet other people? When I am comfortable in whom I have been created to be others will see that and appreciate the realness I have and share themselves as well.
At the end of my trip this week I received a text that read, “I am glad that you are who you are and that I got the chance to know you. You are truly a very unique person.” That text spoke volumes to me and confirmed they saw the real me because I, like everyone else in the world, am unique and they appreciated my uniqueness.
Are you showing up as the unique real you or a vague copy of who you think you should be? If people don’t meet the real you, who are they meeting?
Rebekah Chavez
Chip Hart