FINDING AUTHENTICITY

Yikes! I've lost myself!

I have become very accomplished at not believing in myself over the last several years. I was convinced of the things others had spoken over me. I stopped believing in myself. I stopped being me!

But over the last several months, I began diving deep into myself and how I truly wanted to live my life. I wanted to discover how I was truly meant to do me. I was tired of falling into that place of discontentment. Something was missing, and I just couldn't put my finger on it.

Strengths.
I had considered them before but couldn't follow up on what it might mean to me. I'd taken this assessment almost 4 years ago and found it interesting. The descriptions resonated with me, but what did I do with them?
I thought I knew who I was, but I denied I even existed! I believed all the negative chatter inside my head. I accepted the things people spoke over me in ignorance. I had become who they thought I was instead of being who I was made to be.
When I received the report, all the answers I had given during the assessment revealed some fascinating truths. I did know who I was. I knew it all along. I found myself in every one of the words used to clarify my strengths!

Connected, Learner, Thinker, Creator, Passionate, Mover, and most of all, Belief!

Life proceeded to get in the way, and I got distracted. It wasn't the right time for all of this to matter. But God always has a plan............

Last March, as everything shut down worldwide, my company opened up a chance to virtually go to our leadership retreat. I was looking for things to do while stuck at home. So, I participated and had my whole world changed during ONE session.
Remember that assessment I took forever ago? The one that I was excited about? Someone was about to make all the right connections for me. To help me make sense of it all!

Have you ever discovered something unexpected that changed everything? Something that connected it all together? A person that made it their mission to put it all together just for you. (Oh, and for all the hundreds and thousands they wanted to reach!? ) That's what I found in my strengths report and in the way of my friend Eddie Villa.
Eddie took what was clinical and dry and brought a new way of experiencing strengths and how they can impact your life. It was like jumping out of an airplane. This feeling is wild, but I have to do it!! I put my arms straight out to the side and gave myself to learning who I was and how I could be me 100% of the time.

It's unbelievable how one little action can change how I see everything. It created something I can use......a tool I can use any way I need to. It led me to a community of like-minded folk that wanted to recapture who God created them to be!

It gave me.......

-A tool that is uniquely mine. (because I answered the questions)
-A tool I couldn't backtalk. (because I thought I knew it all)
-A tool uniquely mine, divinely delivered. (God made me exactly as I was)
-A tool that validated my worth. (I am enough and never too much)
-A tool that can be used in every aspect of my life!! (authentically)

I have begun the journey of seeing who I am and loving it! I see the world in a way that allows me to let all the frustration go and love it for what it is, not what I think it should be.
Am I doing it all perfectly? Of course not! I am a work in progress, but this journey has been mind-blowing!

["My strengths report has nothing to do with what I can or cannot do. It shows me how I do everything my way, but only 100% of the time."EV]

It's not proof of what I'm not good at. It's the only proof of how I do it.

You have to be asking yourself at this point......."Why in the world should I listen to you, Cyndie? What kind of experience can you tell me how I can do me more authentically?"

Can't you hear me giggle a little? I love it when I can make you think and when I can challenge where your mindset is right now.

I am the proof!! Living out my strengths helps me see how you can live out yours!

I will encourage you to get this book for a Strengths-Finder Assessment. You will get a code to take the assessment included.

Strengths Assessment Code + Book

Connect here so we can chat about your report!! I'd love to help you discover your strengths!