How to make sure you don’t intimidate people

So you want to avoid intimidating people? I’ve got you.

Here's how to make sure others are not at all intimidated by you:

• Take a look at everything amazing about yourself and your life
• Now minimize, downplay, and hide it away
• Play as small as you can
• Make sure other people feel nice and comfy in THEIR SMALLNESS and are not at all intimidated by how accomplished, beautiful, successful, brilliant, prosperous, and competent you are

If your amazingness is revealed in any way, LIE your pants off*

If, by chance, THE TRUTH of how accomplished, beautiful, successful, brilliant, prosperous, and/or competent you are comes out, LYING is a great option. 

You can say things like:

• "It's not that big of a deal."
• "It was just a fluke."
• "I got lucky."
• "It was good but it wasn't insert criticism/comparison."
• "It was really insert other person's accomplishment."

* Sure, it's basically the exact same thing as exaggerating your accomplishments to impress others, but at least they won't be intimidated!

**If you're doing this REALLY well, eventually YOU'll start to believe the lies. And then you'll actually create WAY smaller, less impressive, super boring and vanilla results that will never intimidate anyone!

And if you're like....um, what?

Then it's probably because you know it's dishonest.

You know it's as bad as pretending you did something great when you didn't.

You know that denying others' the opportunity to feel inspired by you isn't kind.

You know that it's you trying to control others' thoughts. 

You know it's manipulative.

But you can choose to stop lying and hiding

Are you a natural-born leader? LEAD

Do you recognize injustice? CALL IT OUT

Are you a talented helper? HELP PEOPLE

Do you know you're meant for more? MAKE THE MOVE 

Get off the bench and into the arena.

Step into the truth of who you really are and who you're called to be.

And let them be impacted, inspired, and sure - maybe a little intimidated. 

Because you're too busy changing the world to worry about what they think.

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