Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I have an important question for you today, and this is actually going to be something that we speak about in self-coaching society in a couple of weeks, which I'm so thrilled about.

It's about internal versus external success metrics.

Another way of, I suppose, framing this up is are you purpose driven or value driven based on

what's inside of you and what you care about? Or are you image driven? Right? Do you care about

how it looks? Because my friends, you will run yourself ragged, you'll be exhausted. You can wear

yourself out, wear yourself thin and waste your life if you're performing for others and if you are driven by how things look,

doing it for the gram, so to speak, doing it for the photo, making sure people see how

impressive you are. I know in my world, in the coaching world, there are a lot of people who go

to events. They want to be seen with certain people. They want to appear

in certain places. They want to, they want to present their lives in a certain way, spending

money that, oh my gosh, could be used in so much more powerful, resourceful ways, using energy that

they don't have because they're introverted and they're going to all these networking,

extroverted, more style

events versus really being true to themselves and working on something that would have them

succeed far faster. Right. Authenticity is so powerful. When we're really being ourselves,

the right people find us and we can do our best work. We can be who we're here to be. This is what I call

perfect self-expression. But if you're living image-driven and you're doing all the things that

look good, not only do you have this sense of incongruence within your body. You don't really feel like

the real you. People also sense a fakeness. We're not stupid. Maybe it's not even this overt feeling of,

hmm, something's not quite right with this person. But we feel like, hmm, is this person really,

really sincere? Does this person really want to be here? Is this really, really true for them?

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