Recommend Yourself
The world is listening my friends, to everything you say to yourself.
By listening, I am referring to our instinctive capabilities. We all have those moments when an inner voice guides on whether we should engage or not in a certain endeavor. This could be about buying a house, recruiting your next team member, or even selecting a restaurant to go to. There is an innate ability to instinctively assess if someone, or something is good for us. Our instinct is always picking up a vibe or sensing the outcome and it uses that sensation to protect and take care of ourselves. Our instinct has only one agenda: ensure and enhance our well-being.
So let's take a look at how the world is reading, perceiving and seeing through you, and how you can shift the space you come from to generate your desired outcomes.
As we have established, everyone you interact with, is listening to their instinct and picking up a vibe about YOU. The aspect we don't pay attention to is the fact that they are knowingly or unknowingly listening for what you believe in, and the things you say to yourself, about yourself. Let's say you happen to be a person with great intentions but a low self-esteem, you will undoubtedly struggle to achieve all your dreams. You will find yourself working extra hard to get that raise or close a deal and consequently keep validating your low self-worth with each setback. You are sub-consciously telling yourself that you don’t deserve wealth or money or love, and the world comes forth to support your cause.
You self-loath, and the world agrees.
How do you shift this? You have to recommend yourself to the world by transforming your self-image and self-talk, believing that you are everything they’ve been looking for.
Think of a time you recommended a movie, a restaurant, a doctor, your accountant, tailor etc. to a friend, and you will find that in every recommendation you firmly believed that your friend will greatly benefit or enjoy your recommendation. In fact, you were damn bloody sure of it.
If you could be in the same space wherein your self-image was also a recommendation, the world around you will constantly pick up on it and join you in believing that you deliver and deserve the best. Being in this space also allows you to double down on your strengths, and expand your knowledge and wisdom to continually create the best version of yourself. You start to think more about your world of possibilities rather than living in constant self-doubt.
This is transformational and requires a new practice of bringing your attention to the stuff you do really well. When you appreciate your strengths which also include qualities like honesty, integrity and punctuality, you can channelize your energy on doing more of what works for you. Your new self-talk is filled with gratitude for what you have and you are empowered to create a vision that has you jumping with joy every day.
When you are in this space, the world will undeniably support you and invite you to lead and experience a thriving life.
This quote by Katie Reed says it all: “Give the world the best of you, not what’s left of you.“