Authenticity Archives

7 Questions to Ask Yourself To Find Out If You Are Being Truly Authentic in Your Life

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Awareness, Imperfection, Purpose, Values / Manuela Pauer

A couple of months ago, Wharton school professor Adam Grant wrote a piece in the NY Times titled “Unless you’re Oprah ‘Be Yourself’ is Terrible Advice.” He explained that when he was preparing for his first TED Talk, the advice he seemed to get from everyone was “be yourself.” However, he argued that nobody actually […]

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Choosing Beliefs That Are Right For You

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Happiness, Self-Limiting Beliefs, Success / Manuela Pauer

I used to believe that success looked a specific way: Living in a big beautiful house in a great neighborhood in the hills, working as a VP or higher level in a corporation, having enough money to spend on whatever I want. And I worked hard to achieve that picture. But over the years, I

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How Are You Going to Spend Your One Odd and Precious Life?

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Happiness, Life / Manuela Pauer

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about

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As I Began To Love Myself

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Confidence, Love Yourself, Self-Esteem / Manuela Pauer

This beautiful poem on self-love has been attributed to Charlie Chaplin. He is said to have written this on his 70th birthday. As we go through life, we come to more and more realizations, and this poem definitely contains great wisdom worth sharing. Enjoy! As I Began to Love Myself (attributed to Charlie Chaplin)

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Always Be Yourself

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Self Expression, Strengths, Success / Manuela Pauer

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ~Bruce Lee When I was still in the corporate world, there was a lot of talk about role models and whether there were enough strong female role models in our company. And while

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Are You Embracing Who You Are?

Leave a Comment / Acceptance, Authenticity, Being Enough, Imperfection, Shame / Manuela Pauer

This morning I watched superstar wrestler Darren Young being interviewed on NBC’s Today show. He shared that he was approached at the LA airport by TMZ this week and asked whether he thought a gay wrestler could ever be successful in the WWE. And he simply responded: “Absolutely. Look at me.” And he thereby announced

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I Am a Perfectly Imperfect Human Being

Leave a Comment / Acceptance, Authenticity, Being Enough, Happiness, Imperfection / Manuela Pauer

I ran across this quote by Jackson Kiddard today and I loved the message of complete self-acceptance as well as the acceptance of others. We are all perfectly imperfect. What if we could just embrace our imperfections as well as those of others? Wouldn’t we be much happier? His full quote reads: “Today I affirm

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Is The Life You Are Building Big Enough To Engage And Express Who You Are?

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Fulfillment, Self Expression / Manuela Pauer

Alright, it’s review time for me! I am taking part in Steve Mitten‘s Mentorship program for coaches and on our last call we were asked to review how far we have come up until now. I feel like I have made some good progress, but one of the questions he asked made me stop and

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What Is A True Friend?

Leave a Comment / Authenticity, Friend, Friendship, Responsibility, Support / Manuela Pauer

“I really have a hard time being authentic with my friends,” one of my clients told me the other day. “It seems like all they are interested in is the happy and excited “me.” But I am not happy all the time. I get stressed, too, and sometimes I am sad and frustrated. I just

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