We all have our own special sauce, our own sumptin’ sumptin’, our own uniqueness that we can bring to everything that we do. Yet, lots of us are afraid to let it out.

Do You Try to Fit In?

“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” This quote from the movie What a Girl Wants sums it up beautifully.

Women often look around at what everyone else is doing, and let that define what they do. They worry about what other people will think.  They are afraid of looking silly.  They stay small. They don’t want to stand out.  They dial back parts of themselves.  And each time they do, they die a bit inside.  And they deprive the world of the opportunity to truly experience what they have to offer.

To be as successful as you can be— in business and in all areas of your life—dive into your own uniqueness. Revel in it, celebrate it, and share it boldly. Put your own unique spin on everything you do.

Passion in Action

Let me tell you about a guy who does.  In April, I attended the Extreme Business Makeovers event  hosted by Bob Berg and Thom Scott in Orlando, Florida.  It was a fabulous event, and I connected with some amazing entrepreneurs from around the country.

In the Orlando airport on my way home, I was tired, my brain was full, and I decided to get a magazine to flip through on my flight back to Denver.  Little did I know as I walked into the newsstand that I was going to get to see passion in action.  I grinned really big when I saw a guy who took what many of us would consider to be a mundane job, and put his spin on it.  Click on the link to see what I saw….

Passion in Action

He shared his own special sauce, his own sumptin’ sumptin’, and delighted an entire store full of people.  And the amazing thing was, he did it over and over, never the same way twice, customizing it in some way for each customer.

So here’s the challenge.

How can you bring your own uniqueness to what you do in an even bigger way than you do now?

What would it take to give yourself permission to be wholly, unabashedly, unapologetically you?

Are you willing to stop reining yourself in and dialing yourself back?

How would your business results and your personal life be different if your brought your own passion, your own sumtin’ sumtin’ to every interaction?

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