Self-awareness is at the core of a truly authentic and powerful creator.

„In order to have self-expression, we must first have a self to express.“ - Julia Cameron

Meaning, figure out who you really are. Look yourself in the eye and in your soul. Become acquainted with your shadows, fears and programming. Connect to yourself in meditation and in solitude. Journal your heart out. Expand your comfort zone.

Stop distracting yourself with your work and buying courses and Netflix and social media and being busy and people and events and sex and relationships and new shiny objects and problems and complaining.

Instead, just face yourself and the depths of who you are.

Self-awareness is the essence of a truly authentic and powerful creator.

Your work is only as authentic and impactful as your level of self-awareness. Your creativity, your work and your business will always reflect your level of self-awareness and personal development.

The more you know yourself, the more impact you can make outside of yourself.

When you know your values, you can then align your work, your mission and vision with who you are and what truly matters to you.

When you are more aware, mindful and in contact with your body and its signals, you will decrease the likelihood of burning yourself out (something many of us creators do).

As creators in public, we have a responsibly. Our ways of being and energies touch anyone we get in contact with, anyone that consumes and receives our work and ideas.

If you BS yourself, you BS everyone around you.

If you hide from yourself, you hide from the world.

(This is atomic essay #16, which is part of 30 Days of Writing #Ship30for30)