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You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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Do you believe this of yourself? I find that I as I get older it’s getting easier to believe in myself. Maybe it’s because I am caring less and less about what other people think of me. Maybe it’s because life is pretty busy these days and I don’t even have time to think about what I think people are thinking of me. I’ve wasted far too much time worrying about other people’s opinions of me but now, I don’t care anymore. Well, I care far less than I used to.

A therapist once said to me that there are always going to be people in the world who are talking about me, but what they say is only their memory or their concept of me. It actually has little to do with who I am. This idea resulted in a shift in my thinking. It made me see that the chatter is all irrelevant. People talk. But I’m here living my life and one has very little to do with the other.

I love the story this woman tells in this video. I hear this woman speaking to me during those moments when I get too self-conscious and start worrying about how people perceive me. She’s telling me to let it go. Stop the worrying. Be myself. Be true to who I am and who I want to be because “other people’s perception of you, ain’t none of your business.” – Cris