But who am I?

One of the biggest challenges with creating and maintaining an online presence other than the all too familiar imposter syndrome is the ever present question of "who the heck am I?".

Seriously, if you’re going to stand in front of a room and spew several minutes of thoughts and feelings it would help to know what your thoughts and feelings are.

What do I believe, what do I think, what’s my position, what do I know. Who am I.

Do I have a thing? What will I share?

I think the recipe for developing a long term presence in front of any room is having consistent content to share. I could be wrong which is why I say, I think.

So imagine that your content ideas shift from recipes to real estate, relationships, fitness, religion, personal development. Oh, consistency where are thou?

It’s hilarious lol, it’s true that all those things are me, but which is the core of me.

I think there may be a way to package all that into one. I came up with the handle “living anonymously” as a way to share whatever I feel just about life in general, and giving myself permission to continue hiding who I am.

I have a whole series of “out loud” content where I say and do what I want and not care about the message, its delivery, it’s political and grammatical correctness simply because that’s actually how it happened in my head. No need to pretty it up right?

So similarly, living anonymously is combining the out loud version of myself in a format that continues to match the true me - journeying through life wearing my invisibility cloak.

So, maybe it doesn’t matter who I am after all. Maybe I can just share and discover it along the way.

It really doesn’t matter who I am, it matters who you are and what you can get out of what I share.

https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_adkins_who_am_i_a_philosophical_inquiry