When you strut your stuff, you’re not being a show-off. You’re making a contribution. Sharing your gifts. It takes courage to get out of your own way and run with your talents. Courage to excel in something. But don’t you owe it to yourself to succeed? To make yourself proud?
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, “Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance.”
Don’t be obnoxious. But do be amazing. Marianne Williamson wrote, “We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
