In the words of your mother when she realized she was losing control over her teenager: Who do you think you are, mister?

I mean, who is YOU?

If you were not a student, or a girlfriend, or a daughter, or the difficult one in the family or whatever your outside identity is called, who might you be?

This is who we are:

Teacher, coach, car fanatic, clothes horse, big softy when other people share their vulnerabilities (we’re talking tears over cheesy commercials and anything with animals).

We are a work. in. progress.

We admit, we often feel scared, especially when doing this crazy thing called blogging (thank you, Havi, for Bogging therapy) where we’re only any good when we show up with our mess and all.

I guess have I learned to take leaps anyway. It seems to be getting a little easier with practice.

I We feel very strongly about speaking out to encourage you to start to do the work that the real YOU was born to do. It’s like, our THING.

When we post stuff, we sometimes have flashes that people from high school with will think what we are dumb.

But we’ve decided that it’s okay if that happens. Not all people can be Our People, and that’s necessary.

Besides, how lame would it be if we didn’t do our Thing just because we were scared that someone else thinking we are not the coolest?

SO LAME.

Here’s what else: what’s funny about our fears is that none of them have come true.

No public ridicule. No mean comments.  I think people even read this blog on a semi-regular basis.

(And we are not convinced public ridicule is altogether bad – PT Barnum says there is no such thing as bad publicity. We think he’s right.)

As it turns out, who we are is wanting the work we do in the world to create value in other people’s lives.

It’s not cynical or apathetic at all. It’s like we’re betraying our Gen Y identity by caring. But you’re My People so you’re down with that, too.

When our authentic selves peeks its head into the world, it’s this website! And you get to find us, read our blather and feel better. We win, you win. Yay!

Now, you’re turn:

What does it look like for you, when you’re being you out there doing what you do so well, to be out there?  What does the real you want to do in the world?

You already know that we like you.  We think you’re awesome. Plus, you’re just so dang smart.

On top of that, there’s more you-ness that looks just like YOU when you put it out there for everyone to see.

I’m not commanding you to put it out there – nay, I wouldn’t dare!

I’m just saying think about identifying the you that is you and making friends.

Putting out there can come later when it sounds like a good idea at the time.

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