You don’t need permission from anyone to do the things you love.
You don’t need someone to come over and pat you on the back to tell you everything is going to be ok.
The dreams and goals you have are yours and yours alone.
What I find troubling is that most of us have these goals and dreams, and we share them with people close to us or online.
We get excited at the prospect that these people we know or don’t know will cheer for us.
They will send us encouraging DMs and give us hugs saying, “Yay! Go after your dreams.” But then we get that first skeptical opinion from someone close to us.
Maybe it’s Mom or Dad sharing with us the state of the economy, and they’re concerned that starting a business at this time is scary.
Maybe it’s a close friend of yours who tells you that it’s going to be hard and you may need to think twice.
When you get that opinion, it completely alters the view you have of yourself and your goals.
How is that possible, you may wonder?
How is it that the excitement we get from our dreams is immediately derailed when someone tells us their opinion?
I'll tell you.
Why do we need permission?
Permission gives us a sense of security.
It tells us that what we are doing is ok.
It also gives us a sense of validation.
And we need validation. The validation we seek often comes from outside of us.
We look for validation in the news, in trends, and data.
We look for validation from our parents and loved ones and online.
We look everywhere for permission to be ourselves except from the one place it matters.
And that's us.
We never think to seek validation from ourselves with the inner belief to go after what we desire.
It's our goals. It's our dreams.
Yet, we look everywhere else to get after it except us.
How we view working towards our goals is how we view ourselves.
Seek permission elsewhere to pursue your dreams, and you're communicating that you don't believe in yourself.
Seek permission in yourself to pursue your dreams, and you're showing that you believe in yourself.
No matter who tells you no.
No matter what others say.
How to take action
The most important thing you can do is follow through.
That’s it.
Pursue self-education in your field of interest.
Start writing on Twitter to improve your messaging and branding.
**One of my favorite tools to use for writing is Tweet Hunter.
Begin posting short-form videos on Youtube.
Don’t think about if you’re doing it right or wrong.
No need to worry if you’re going to make a sale online or if people will follow you.
Just do it.
Six months ago, I began posting online every day. I made a commitment that I was going to be more active online.
I didn’t seek permission to do it.
I did it. I took action.
My follower count has grown 3x since then.
I wrote down all the lessons I learned from making content and began reaching out to people I respected for tips on creating better content.
I used the proven tactics I found over the years mixed with what I learned for myself and shared them with my clients.
My clients achieved some insane results:
One client grew their following by 80,000 in 45 days
Another client landed a 10k sponsorship deal for their podcast.
I am not sharing this to tell you I know through and through what I am doing.
I tell you this because I wouldn’t have been able to know what worked and didn’t work if I didn’t take action.
If I wasn’t willing to test things myself, ready to share my message, how could I help anyone?
So, my friend, I hope this article inspires you to take action.
You don’t need permission. You don’t need to wait for someone to tell you that it’s ok for you to go after what you want.
You don’t need anyone. You only need you.
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