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Have you ever heard your own voice on a recording and thought: “I don’t sound like that, do I?” When you ask your friends, they say: “Yep, that’s exactly how you sound”. Even freakier is if you’ve ever seen yourself in a photograph and thought something wasn’t quite right, thinking: “That’s not how I look, is it?” Once again your friends say, yep that’s you.
Here’s what’s actually happening. You don’t hear your own voice as it sounds to others. You hear it vibrating of the bones in your head and within the spaces of your sinuses and other cavities. You don’t know how your own voice really sounds until you hear a recording. You don’t see yourself as others see you. Everyday, you look in the mirror you see a reverse image of yourself.
Now, because our faces are almost symmetrical, you don’t look that much different but you do look slightly different. That’s why you get that slight uneasy feeling when you see yourself in photos. You don’t know what you really look like until you see yourself in a photograph or a video. It’s weird, right?
So, what does this have to do with your online success? Well, I’m always amazed at how many people have strong opinions about starting their own business or making money online but have never even tried it. If you don’t even know what your own face looks like until you’ve seen it from the proper perspective, how can you know what it’s like to run an online business before you’ve seen it from the proper perspective? You can’t and it’s ridiculous but these know-it-alls deter so many would-be success stories with their backward thinking.
Don’t base your life choices on the advice of someone who has never left the comfortable, cosy, mediocre perspective of their boring life. Get the real perspective. Take a risk and try it. You’ll never know until you do.