How to Become Highly Visible in Your Industry & Stand Out from the Crowd

12: It's official! My Instagram account had the highest month ever! 20k followers or members I would like to address them in 1 month. 20k people clicked the follow button in 30 days to follow my Instagram account. I'm still trying to catch my breath and take that all in. Someone please pinch me! After 10 years in the industry, I finally had the breakthrough I desired! I tried and tried and tried and almost gave up but somehow managed to convince myself to just hang on a little longer and wah la! This is truly living life beyond my wildest dreams. If you had told me 10 years ago that this would have happened, I wouldn't have believed you. Because I was the most un-tech sayy person ever! I didn't even want to buy a smart phone to begin with! So, let alone thinking that I would one day learn to love social media and actually excel on it! Anyway, during all the years of trying, I've always had the vision in my mind that ONE DAY, I'll be rich and famous. To tell you the truth, I've played play pretend all these years. Putting out content and speaking my truth while having this vision that lots and lots of people were listening to what I had to say. (Actually - at that time - no one really cared!) And the irony is this. Whatever that I'm saying now to my 50k members on Instagram, is pretty much what I've said a few years ago. It took me a few years to get it and shift after watching this interview of Marianne Williamson with Oprah. The reason why so many people are wanting to be stars is because they're not yet starring in their own lives and Marianne also said that we're more afraid of our own light than darkness. After listening to that, I had chills down my spine. I knew that I wanted to feel important but I didn't know how to get it. I gave my power away. I needed my posts to be liked a million times to feel smart. I needed people to sing my praises to feel like I was good enough. I needed to be in the spotlight because I wanted to be seen. At the end of the day, I realised that I had to light up my own world with my own light. I just stopped waiting for the world to validate me. It was the most interesting experience ever because I realised I wasn't really living in my body. It felt like I was floating outside my body and thus I couldn't hold on to whatever that I've created. My external success fell apart because internally I wasn't able to hold and keep up with it! After 3 years of going on a soul searching journey, I finally got it! I didn't need a fancy website or a Paris photoshoot to stand out from the crowd. Which by the way, I did all of that! All I needed was to be me. I know you might be rolling your eyes and I know it sounds super cliche. But if I didn't see how quickly my Instagram account grew right before my eyes, I would had done and felt the same! We're not here to be a clone of anyone. We're here to be ourselves and truly live life on our own terms. I know! Again, another cliche! But do you know 4 out of 5 people don't know what they really want? I invite you to conduct an experiment. Every person that you meet over the next 7 days, ask them this one simple question: "What do you want?" 3/5 people will tell you that they want happiness. But happiness is a state of mind - meaning it's an emotion. It's already there. Same thing with visibility. I see so many people are teaching entrepreneurs how to become visible! I'm not really sure how's that working out and how to even teach visibility! Visibility isn't something that you DO! I believe visibility is equivalent to the amount of light you can channel and hold for the world. It's interesting to watch those who say they want to be visible yet at the same time so afraid of even attending networking events. Or hosting a live webinar or simply speaking their truth. The safer you feel in the world, the more visible you'll become because you're independent of the good opinion of others. The law of attraction never fails.