01/12/2018
People have been commenting on how happy I look. It’s amazing what being surrounded by people who believe in you, encourage you and are investing in you can do for a person’s heart, mind and soul.
For years I did everything I could to be accepted. All I ever wanted was for people to like and accept me but I’ve always been a little different, have tons of ideas that are considered outside the box, been willing to take risks others won’t and believe there is more to life than traditional “norms”.
It literally broke my heart and spirit to work for a school system and to be a youth pastors wife in some of the churches over the year where I was not valued or appreciated.
I am so thankful for the friends that love and accept me despite not understanding me but in general, trying to make people accept me in work and in life when they don’t understand me is sometimes more lonely and painful than just not having those people as friends at all.
Earlier this year I connected with tons of people at an entrepreneur event (Funnel Hacking Live) and I felt like I was with “my people”. I was surrounded by people who get the “crazy” ideas and drive to make them a reality and the inability to be “normal” when it comes to the way I view life, work and the future.
All of that has transpired into working for and with people who get me. It’s an amazing feeling. They don’t laugh at me, they encourage me. They don’t tell me to be “normal”, they ask how they can support my “crazy ideas”. They don’t sit and stress about what will happen with retirement at 60 and how I will fund it, they envision a better future for me and my kids and how we can live and enjoy that “retirement” kind of life NOW.
It is what it is now and I believe everything has happened to get me where I am today so I’ll take it but I encourage you to find your “tribe”. Connect with people who get you. Stop trying to make people like and accept you who don’t and can’t. I wasted so much energy trying to be friends with people who were embarrassed to be my friend because of my “crazy” ideologies or who just simply thought they were better than me.
I wish I could get that time back and put that energy towards dr
