{"id":4923,"date":"2024-07-30T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/who-are-you-thinking-about-when-you-act-other-people-or-your-authentic-self\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:38","slug":"who-are-you-thinking-about-when-you-act-other-people-or-your-authentic-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/who-are-you-thinking-about-when-you-act-other-people-or-your-authentic-self\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7224057612001013760>Who are you thinking about when you act: other people or your authentic self?<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are you thinking about when you act: other people or your authentic self?<\/p>\n<p>I have greater presence and confidence as I have relaxed into my self employed business, because I&#8217;m not wasting energy on putting up a mask and pretending to be something I&#8217;m not. All of my energy is going into my aligned intention rather than being diverted into worrying about what others think to protect myself.<\/p>\n<p>When I embrace who I already am, it leads to greater ambition because I&#8217;m not worried about what other people will think if I fail. I&#8217;m focused on doing things because I want to do them, and even if they don&#8217;t work, I&#8217;ll learn and try again. The shame of failure matters less when I care less about my image. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a vulnerability to that but I have learned that I will never please the people that don&#8217;t like me for who I am, so stop trying. If I focus on letting myself shine, the people who appreciate me become more devoted to helping me because they are getting more of the thing they like.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, we only find our fellow travelers by putting our authentic selves out into the world so they can find and help us. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my fellow traveler, Michael Trugman, for inspiring this post with one of his posts. Check out his great podcast, Mike&#8217;s Search for Meaning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are you thinking about when you act: other people or your authentic self? I have greater presence and confidence as I have relaxed into my self employed business, because I&#8217;m not wasting energy on putting up a mask and pretending to be something I&#8217;m not. All of my energy is going into my aligned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}