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Finding Your Own Voice

We are bombarded on a daily basis by different groups of individuals vying for our attention. Everywhere you turn to on the web, someone is professing to be an expert and offering suggestions on how they think you should living your life. Marketers have monopolized cyberspace. They entice you with the latest app, podcast, free ebook, 50% off sales, all in an effort to lure you into buying something.  They even somehow have managed to make us feel inadequate for not having their product, and being apart of the in crowd.
Within each of us is an innate desire to belong. We have to be friends with the right set of people and some of us even brag about our association with a well known “celebrity”. While nothing is wrong with that in and off itself, we need to check ourself from time to time and find out the why behind what we do.
We need to ask ourself: ” Is my self worth based on my association, my career, the type of house I live in, or the clothes I wear?”
No one will be grading you on the answer, so answer honestly. If your self worth is not based on any of the above, then on what or who?
Dig deep. Spend time getting to know yourself and find out the motives behind your actions. It took me 35 years, but today I know who I am, and what I want out of life.
Many people fail and will continue to fail in business because they have been trying to implement someone else’s business plan. As it is for businesses, so too is our plight as individuals. We want to be the other person and not ourself.
As you go through the day twittering, facbooking, youtubing and skyping, take inventory of  your life and make a decision. Don’t get lost in the crowd and make it your life’s mission to find your own voice.
What suggestions would you give to a young person trying to find their own voice in cyber space?

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