Okay me, listen up:
Start with how you want to BE (as opposed to how you want to be perceived) then show THAT.
It is not important how you are perceived. It is important how you are.
Faulty perceptions will be corrected by persistent exposure to the truth. But only if that truth is persistently lived and shared. Others’ faulty perceptions live on when you internalize them and allow them to shame you, silence you with worry and force you into the shadows to avoid the pain of disconnection. When that happens the faulty perception festers because there’s nothing shedding any light on its wrongness.
I want to be...
Open
Interested
Adventurous
Connected
Caring
Encouraging
Understanding
Silly
Kind
Sanguine
Loving
Patient
Generous
...FIRST with myself, then with everyone else.