What Have You Built a Reputation For?
What have you built a reputation for?
And, more importantly...
Do you want that reputation?
This is worth checking in on.
Sometimes we build a reputation for an aspect of our work—or the way we approach it—that no longer holds value to us. Maybe it never did!
Maintaining or defending this reputation can get in the way of us becoming more of ourselves.
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Maybe being reliable, committed, or creative still matters to you... but the way you express that needs to change.
You are reliable because you always do what you say you will, not because you always do it within two hours.
You are committed because you quit the right things, not because you never quit.
You are an artist worthy of attention and admiration because you keep making art, not because all that art is beautiful.
See what I mean?
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You get to decide how excellence expresses through you.
You get to set the tone for yourself. You get to choose the yardstick you're measuring yourself against.
How you choose to view yourself shapes how others are able to see you.
If the container of your reputation no longer fits, “repot” yourself into a different one.
— Kate
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