Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.

Today, I want to talk about the power of vulnerability.

There is such great power in being real and speaking from your heart and letting all those around you know the truth of what your experience of life is like.

Starting with relationships -- imagine when you are developing a bond with someone. The more real you can be with them -- the more you can tell them about your dreams and what lights up your soul and your fears and your anxieties... that invites them to truly know you. And it makes it feel special that you're sharing a part of you that not everyone else in the world gets to see.

Vulnerability allows you to deepen your relationship, to deepen your understanding of one another and what it's going to take to love that other person with all your heart and in a way that lights up there soul.

Being vulnerable in your job, whether it be as a manager has a CEO or, for me, has as a coach. I think it's so important that my athletes know that I got to where I am not because I had this perfect road of successes and I had everything I needed to to make it to the top.

I let them know that I've been afraid I've been stifled by my anxiety. I have failed over and over and over again. I've been disappointed over and over again, but that's how I learned. That's how I grew. That's how I how I built up my confidence and my resilience and my relentlessness.

We all need to know that success is not a perfect road. That they should expect to be afraid because it means that they care. They should expect to be anxious. It means they're excited.

In being vulnerable, we're allowing all those around us to be the same. We're allowing all those around us to know the truth of what it is to be human, what it is to shoot for the stars, and to be afraid and to know that it's going to be a bumpy road where you fell often and you're disappointed often.

But that's how you learn. That's how you grow. That's how we make progress.

We're more vulnerable., we are opening up such room for a greater depth in every relationship that we have, and that is what makes life so incredible. Be vulnerable.

You don't want your kids to think that life is easy because the minute that it starts getting hard, they think they're the only one that is struggling. And that's just not true. Let them know the reality of what life is like. The reality of what it's like to be under pressure, to go through a hard time so that they feel safe and they know that what they're experiencing is normal and then they won't make it out the other side stronger than ever before.

So today, everybody, be vulnerable. Be real with all those around you and understand that you are truly helping others by giving them courage and faith in the strength knowing that they are on the right path and that they will get to where they dream of going. Because you have. And you're the example and you're being real with them and sharing everything about what it takes to be the best that you can be in your life.

Thank you, everyone, and have an amazing day.

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