Hello, lovelies! Today I have a soul-stirring guest post from Leanna and Kevin over at The League of Champions. It’s all about being who you are . . . without waiting for some special thing first. Enjoy and show them some love when you’re done reading! 
Do you ever feel like…
You can’t unleash the real you until you’re done baking?
You’re a work in progress that will never be complete?
No one hears your voice in a deafeningly loud world?
People say, “Be yourself.” But what is “yourself?” Luckily, the solution can be found in one simple secret.
Many of us have this problem of finding ourselves. You’re not abnormal, or broken, or on the wrong track if you feel this way.
We’ve all be told, one time or another, that we “should” be something that was different from what we wanted to be. So then we start to think, “Well, maybe I’m wrong, maybe I should be something different…” and we question ourselves so much, we forget what we really were in the first place. Or maybe we were told, “That’s just the way things are,” by someone who hadn’t bothered to find out if things could be other ways, too. So then we began to think we had to accept a reality that we didn’t want.
It’s because of all the moments you were told not to follow your gut, that your gut was wrong, that you now feel like the real you – who knows all the right answers – is eluding you.
All these moments can be undone, however. You can get in touch with your true self simply, right now, no waiting. The biggest secret to finding yourself is… to stop looking.
The real you is not someone who has to be stitched together from pieces of what you think you should be, or someone who’s still being shaped and formed, or that ultimate personality you‘ve come up with in your head. Of course we continue to grow and change, so think of that as an expansion of the true you. But the true you is already here.
To stop looking means to stop putting on an act. Sometimes we act a certain way because we’re around certain people. Or, even when we’re alone, our choices reflect what we think the outside world will accept. Doing this is like putting on a mask we think everyone else will like. To take off the mask, just stop editing yourself. The true you is already here. It has always been underneath the mask, because it’s how you’d naturally act if you weren’t pretending. Continue reading
