<p>‘Be yourself’ is a cliched piece of advice one hears often. Aren’t we already ourselves? We can hardly help not being ourselves. The real challenge lies in not being yourself. </p>.<p class="bodytext">If you want to improve, to be better, and you desire to get rid of your shortcomings and weaknesses, then you have to endeavour not to be yourself. We have been ourselves all our lives. We have been ourselves till now. But don’t you want to change? Don’t you want to emulate those who are better, who are more successful, who are happier, who are ‘somebody’?</p>.<p class="bodytext">If we want to change for the better, we have to stop being ourselves, stop being what we have been all our lives. Let us throw away the garb we have been wearing all along and don a new one. Let us jettison all that we do not like about ourselves. We can try to be what we want to be. We admire and envy so many qualities and traits in others. Why can’t we be like that? Like a hero, like a celebrity. We can be. We have to first stop being ourselves. And that is easier said than done.</p>.<p class="bodytext">You have to identify what you do not like about yourself. Are you reticent? Diffident? And you want to be sociable and friendly. Do you have deep-rooted inhibitions? Surprise yourself, surprise the world. You have to act and act. We have the potential.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Unlock yourself. Change yourself. Stop being what you are and be what you want to be. You have to take steps. You will fall if you leap. Take firm steps. Change your direction.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Watch your reactions. How do you react to situations? How do you react to people? Observe your reactions, and you will know who you are. And then slowly and steadily change that.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Stop reacting. Act. Be a good actor. Act the ideal way. We are always revealing ourselves when we react. When we react, we are being ourselves.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The challenge lies in acting what you are not but what you want to be. Let the change be noticed by people who know you. Let people say that you have changed – for the better. What is the use of being yourself when <br />you are hardly anything but a conditioned robot?</p>
<p>‘Be yourself’ is a cliched piece of advice one hears often. Aren’t we already ourselves? We can hardly help not being ourselves. The real challenge lies in not being yourself. </p>.<p class="bodytext">If you want to improve, to be better, and you desire to get rid of your shortcomings and weaknesses, then you have to endeavour not to be yourself. We have been ourselves all our lives. We have been ourselves till now. But don’t you want to change? Don’t you want to emulate those who are better, who are more successful, who are happier, who are ‘somebody’?</p>.<p class="bodytext">If we want to change for the better, we have to stop being ourselves, stop being what we have been all our lives. Let us throw away the garb we have been wearing all along and don a new one. Let us jettison all that we do not like about ourselves. We can try to be what we want to be. We admire and envy so many qualities and traits in others. Why can’t we be like that? Like a hero, like a celebrity. We can be. We have to first stop being ourselves. And that is easier said than done.</p>.<p class="bodytext">You have to identify what you do not like about yourself. Are you reticent? Diffident? And you want to be sociable and friendly. Do you have deep-rooted inhibitions? Surprise yourself, surprise the world. You have to act and act. We have the potential.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Unlock yourself. Change yourself. Stop being what you are and be what you want to be. You have to take steps. You will fall if you leap. Take firm steps. Change your direction.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Watch your reactions. How do you react to situations? How do you react to people? Observe your reactions, and you will know who you are. And then slowly and steadily change that.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Stop reacting. Act. Be a good actor. Act the ideal way. We are always revealing ourselves when we react. When we react, we are being ourselves.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The challenge lies in acting what you are not but what you want to be. Let the change be noticed by people who know you. Let people say that you have changed – for the better. What is the use of being yourself when <br />you are hardly anything but a conditioned robot?</p>