A good friend and marketing expert Marty Marsh talks a lot about being authentic, especially with internet marketing. He has noticed there are people who don’t put a picture of themselves, their contact information and such on their websites – almost as if they are hiding from their prospects. Marty feels it is important to let people know who you are – how else will they know, like and trust you and want to do business with you? He sent an email describing it as a bold and scary project:
A member of my soul proprietor community and a friend, Jini Cicero, turned me on to a project being done by a woman named Amber Naslund, and Jini thought it would be a great project to emulate with my own soul proprietor community. And I agreed.
I’m calling it the “What you probably don’t know about me… but that I wish you did” project.
We all put a business persona out there and rarely do any of us get even a glimpse of who somebody really is. This project is for you to share the real you. The real person that only you may know.
Marty sent us a link to his and although he was concerned what people might think about him once they knew some of these things, he was intrigued to do it. I started thinking about it and then found myself making a list. I wrote it and kept thinking of things I wanted to add – except it was getting a bit long by then. If you would like to read what some of the people wrote, it is at his Soul Proprietor Blog. I was hesitant to put myself out there, yet that is what I have been doing on this blog for almost 2 years. So if you would like to know a little more about me, you can find my entry about 3 or 4 entries down. I suspect you have figured out a lot about me from this blog, so it may not be all that surprising.
I was tired when I finished and sent it to Marty. But then a while later there was a feeling of liberation, almost of relief in a way. I realized it was an enjoyable experience, the only struggle was in deciding what to put in, sometimes how to phrase it , did I sound as if I was putting myself down and getting tired when I was not ready to stop writing. I loved how it felt and I realized that is how I want my work, my purpose in life to feel. It flowed with ease and I didn’t have to think about what people would say, that I didn’t have to compete to “win” a client or a project. I was just being me and it was a lot of fun. I don’t think I put myself down, a lot of things I wrote about in my early years and school now have a different perspective – a more positive one.
I started another list and have been adding to it – I decided to write a second one for myself. Now it is getting my shoulders and neck to behave long enough to write it. I wrote it the week before last, a really good week for me. I had some energy and interest in what I do as well as feeling rather good. This last week has been uncomfortable – a bit of a downer after a good week. not sure why, but it is what it is. I had my deep tissue massage on Friday and more stuffed feeling came out – I felt something was ready to come but wasn’t sure what. She has been working on my knees the last two weeks – this week I can bend my left knee a little when I walk instead of only with a straight leg. My right knee goes at a 90 degree angle now – amazing!
Debye talked about helping the knee remember how it was designed to move and what is so wonderful and amazing is that now, at the 2nd day, I am still doing very well. Before when I did it on my own, the middle of the knee in front hurt like crazy – she did it in a way that I haven’t hurt as a result of moving in a different way. I have to consciously remember to bed the knee, it has been many years since I have been able to do it. She invites her angels, spirits, guides and master teachers as well as mine to come and be part of the massage – she says they tell her what to work on and how. I believe her and trust all them to know what is for my highest good. Now to some that may sound woo woo or goof ball or spooky, but I am learning so much from the holistic practitioners I know that it doesn’t seem spooky at all. There were two messages they wanted her to give me – one is to love myself, the second is that I must choose to heal myself and really want it.
I feel a lot has come all at once and I am still processing it – I am much more ready to hear it and not try to deflect or justify things. I am more open and and receptive to unlimited possibilities as well as what I have to work on inside me. All of it has come as a result of unconditional love of those around me and my readiness to love myself.
Gift of RA 