You have to, and I say this with great love, but you just have to develop a tough skin and say, you know what? As I rise to the glory within me and as I express the fullness of my gifts, and as I change the world by who I’m becoming and what I’m doing and the value that I’m pouring out into the world, people are not going to like it. People will be threatened. Why? Because you are modeling the possibility every one of them has. And that’s a pretty scary thought, because they then have two choices. Either they go, “I do the same.” But that would mean they would have to leave their safe harbor that they’ve known. They’d have to change. They’d have to face their fears. And most people don’t have the guts to do it, so they bring you down.The other choice is they model your possibility and they say, “How did you do that? What did you learn? What are the beliefs you’re running? What are your daily habits and rituals? Allow me to model them too.” But that takes bravery. It takes bigness. It takes an open mind. It takes an open heart to say, “You know what? I’m going to leave my circle of average and I’m going to have the guts to sail out in the blue ocean of possibility, and I want to be like you too.” Very few people are willing to do that. You can be world-class or you can be popular and beloved, but you just can’t be both.
