Being Authentic Stems From Your Inner Core And This All Comes When You Know How To Tell A Story About Yourself

An article from brand awareness expert Trish Davies, which looks at the fundamentals of personal authenticity through knowing how to tell a story about yourself.

Hi, I am Trish Davies and for several years now I have been helping people truly understand who they really are. In a nutshell it comes down to just one powerful word. “Authenticity”!

Authenticity is the degree of a person’s actions that are congruent with what they believe, or the beliefs they have, and what their desires are. Now we all have two things in common because we are all born, and unfortunately, we will all die at some point which hopefully is way down the track.

This is in no way meant to sound morbid, but it is a fact of life. It is what you do in between those two points that defines you as a person because that is your life story and your legacy!

How To Tell A Story About Yourself – This Is Your Life

From day 1 your life is a story waiting to be told. Year after year is a chapter which catalogues events that change your life, decisions that you make, good or bad. You are always a work in progress because you will never become the finished article. There is always something deep down desperately waiting to be unleashed.

We all grow up under the pressure of outside influences from many different directions. Our parents, family and friends, work colleagues and general acquaintances.

We are also influenced by what we watch, read and consume through media. News bulletins, newspapers, your favourite shows and more so over the last twenty years, social media.

Why So Many Opinions?

Everyone seems to have an opinion and who is to say which ones are right, and which ones are wrong. All of this goes into your memory bank and effects how you evolve as a person. The morals, ethics and beliefs you form. Here is where dreams and aspirations are created, and you start to create a path to follow. One that is unique to you.

Trouble is though this thing called “life” often gets in your way. You dodge curveballs, clamber over hurdles and go down rabbit holes that open up for no apparent reason. Suddenly your life doesn’t resemble what you had planned out. Therefore, you look in the mirror and don’t recognise that person looking back at you!

All of this can have a serious impact on your life. Your relationships will suffer and maybe your purpose in life will go as well.  Also, you may find yourself in a job that gives you no fulfilment. You are not the person you wanted to be and it is like an imposter is living your life. Your authenticity has been shot to bits. So how can you get that back? Time to hit the re-set button!

How To Tell A Story About Yourself – Your Life In Words Through Your Origin Story

So, what is your origin story? Well quite simply it is going back in time right to the start. It is an exercise you can do where you basically write your life story up to now. Go into as much detail as you can and leave nothing out.

Look at all the stages of your life, the successes you have achieved along with the hardships that have come to your front door. You will ride your emotional rollercoaster which will give you much joy. Alas at the same time it will bring back painful memories, but you should take the positives out of this.

There will be occasions where life changing decisions were made. Why did you make them and how did they turn out?

The point of this exercise is to find out your true self, who you are and what defines you so that you can get back to that person who may have gone missing over the years.

You will find that putting together your origin story is going to be one of the hardest challenges that you undertake. The flip side is that it will ultimately be one of the most rewarding things that you ever do.

Create A Life Changing Resource

At the end of this exercise you will have a document that will be a constant resource for you in many aspects of your life. Ultimately every time you go back to it you will know how to tell a story about yourself.

Once complete you will then need to read it over and over again. Each time you will come across small points that stand out so make a note of them. The reason for doing this is that each point you pick out is going to be a story within the story.

You can then develop that story for anything personal or business related. For example, there may have been something happened to you personally way back in the day which changed the way you looked at things. It may have made you act in a way that was not true to what you believed in but then the seed had been sown! This is maybe the reason are the person you are but now you know what needs to change.

How To Tell A Story About Yourself – Why This Helps Your Online Presence

If you are in business, then you may be finding things difficult and the reason is that you are not being authentic in your message. This means that people can’t relate to you. By going through your story, you will find small hooks or angles that you can develop stories around to gain that connection with people.

What I do want to stress is this is not an exercise to pull out the bad points, far from it. Your origin story will also bring out everything that is good about you as well. Combine the good and the bad and you will rediscover your authenticity. This is how you tell a story about yourself.

Authenticity is just one of the pillars that help you find what I call “Your AU”. The others are “Authority” & “Audience”. I will be talking a lot more about these three pillars over the coming weeks and months.

I mentioned earlier that I have been helping people find these three pillars and I work intensely with them within my brand awareness mentoring program.

A Sneak Peek Into My Build Your AU Mentoring Program

I would like to give you access to a series of Mastermind Meetings that I have hosted with some of my members. I have taken excerpts to give you a taste of what you can achieve by working with me to “Build Your AU” Let me show you how you can build your Authenticity – Authority – Audience. Each meeting is very powerful, and I am 100% confident that you will be able to relate to everyone who participated in many ways.

I am eager for you to get started and I have made it very simple for you to get access. Click here right now, enter your details and I will send you the first episode instantly.

Learning how to tell a story about yourself will help you build your online presence. It will help you build your authenticity, authority and your audience. Click here to register for my powerful video series and get started.

Build your AUTHENTICITY, AUTHORITY AND AUDIENCE through your story with Trish Davies.