Find the medium where you feel you can best express yourself and lean in.
Maybe it’s music. Maybe it’s art. Maybe it’s sport.
Maybe it’s dancing. Maybe it’s painting. Maybe it’s basketball.
Maybe it’s line dancing. Maybe it’s ballet. Maybe it’s ecstatic dancing.
Maybe it’s watercolor. Maybe it’s oil painting. Maybe it’s spray painting.
Maybe it’s casual pick-up basketball. Maybe it’s in an amateur league. Maybe it’s in a professional league.
The thing is, where you find yourself lost in an expressive medium… that’s where you’ll find your most authentic self.
…Not when you’re in a business meeting, or on a first date, or making a video for a social media audience. In each of those examples, there’s a self-consciousness. A focus on what the other person thinks and a desire to give your best impression. And so you put on the best fitting personality mask that you think will elicit the best response.
When you’re lost in an expressive medium, however? And time flies by? And there’s no self-consciousness?
That’s where the real you shows his/her face.
That’s where the source of some of your most potent life energy will be.
And that… is where your best life and favorite people will be.