‘You are too extreme…’

🐣 At school, teachers reported that they even did not know if I was there and kept warning my mum that I was ‘too quiet’, so I would have communication issues. Until I started to ask questions and I got labelled as ‘too demanding’: those were not typical kids’ questions so teachers could not understand why they were supposed to have the answers!

🐦 At work, I was informed to be ‘too emotional’. First, I wrote novels instead of scientific papers. Then, I listened too much to the needs of teammates and clients. Until I fearlessly started to advocate against injustice, and I moved to ‘too sharp and harsh’ - here my habit of gesticulating did not help!

🐣 Yes, as a child (ehm…I still do…) I spent a lot of time daydreaming, not simply accepting information from the outside but creating my own reality from my inside. I was also very curious, and I trusted that a child has already the answers to the problems of life, so I used to turn to adults for some - rarely found - wisdom!

🐦 Yes, as a human being and a professional coach, I believe that every person is important and I give voice to those people who, for various reasons, do not have a voice. Adding my heart in whatever I do and my uncompromised drive in whatever I say, no matter what. Does this create conflicts? It may, and conflict may be the doorway to change.

Are you invisible? Are you demanding? Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Is your attention all focused on making shift happen instead of getting trapped into other people’s excuses to play small? 
Which kind of ‘TOO MUCHNESS’ have you been diagnosed with?
What if there was more to you than your muchness?

I would love to read your comments below.

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