Take off the mask

🎤 Say the right thing at the right moment.🎤
DiSC Sales Assessment & Workshop

You walk into a high-stakes meeting or a networking event, and your internal dialogue takes over:

“Do I sound authoritative enough?”

“Did I overshare in that last update?”

“Are they judging my lack of experience?”

We spend an incredible amount of mental bandwidth trying to "read the room" and adjust our masks accordingly, but the truth is that the audience you think you’re performing for doesn’t actually exist.

They’re just as lost in their heads as you are.

Your colleagues, customers, and even your executives aren't sitting there with a microscope analyzing your flaws. They are worrying about their own KPIs, overthinking how they sound to the board, and wondering if they picked the right strategy.

When everyone is busy rehearsing their own lines, no one is actually judging your performance.

If you want to be more influential, you have to understand where your energy is going. Constant self-monitoring is exhausting, and it actively dilutes your authority.

We don’t get tired from the work; we get tired from trying to manage how we are perceived while doing the work.

When you wear a mask to "fit in" or "look the part," you lose the very thing that creates influence: Trust.

People can sense a performance, and it creates a barrier. They don't follow masks; they follow people.

Realizing that people are mostly consumed with themselves grants you permission to stop trying to be perfect; to focus on the problem, not your persona; and to be more of yourself at work.

Stop wearing a mask for an audience that isn't watching, so you can put that energy back into your vision, your team, and your results.

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