Know Who You Are; It's A Superpower

​Who they say you are isn’t nearly as important as who you know you are.

Because the truth is, there will always be voices. Voices from your past. Voices from your failures. Voices that sound an awful lot like your fears. And sometimes those voices can sound convincing. Why wouldn't they - they’ve been rehearsed in your head for years.

But what matters most isn’t what you hear. It’s what you agree with.

The moment you agree with the wrong voice, you begin to live out a story that isn’t yours. You start making choices to defend an identity that was never yours in the first place.

How do you defend yourself against that, defend yourself against the noise?

Know who you are.

Because when you know who you are - like REALLY know it - the noise can no longer sway you. No one can apply a mask to a face that refuses to wear one.

Maybe it's our greatest superpower - being sure of who we are. The noise of the world will always be loud, but it only becomes deafening - defeating - when we start to listen to and believe noise that isn't ours to listen to and believe.

It's self-defense.

Defense against ever giving another voice the power to believe they know who you are better than you do.

They don't.