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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement—along with a good cup of coffee!—to start the day.

Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week.  Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content. Today we discuss "authentic."

Authentic

The original one and only! Often imitated! Truly unique!

The world over, authenticity is valued, but what does it mean to be authentic?

To me, being authentic comes down to three key elements:

• First, you have a philosophy of life.
• Secondly, you follow that philosophy.
• Thirdly, you accept that this philosophy won’t always make your life easy.

While this may not be a perfect summary of what it means to be authentic, I’d argue that it’s a pretty solid summary. There are two reasons that I would make this argument.

First, in my opinion, if you break down the concept, these three elements encompass the concept. My logical, engineering brain takes me down the path of breaking things down to their core elements. These three things—in my opinion—encompass what it means to be authentic.

While the logical path is one of my favorites, I would argue that there is a second, even more powerful reason that these three concepts encompass the idea of being authentic:

• Finding someone who embraces all three of these tenants is extremely rare, and, as such, validates the definition of authentic!

It’s easy to speak of being authentic. It’s hard to live out the concept.

That brings us to this week’s question:

• Are you authentic?

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning.  

Have a great week!

Blog post from this past week:

Monday Morning Motivation - Candid