{"id":4359,"date":"2020-04-06T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:57:44","slug":"keeping-a-low-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/keeping-a-low-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a low profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“1 m 80 [5\u20199″]?”\u00a0 said the person I was talking to, somewhat taken aback. Well, yes actually, I am every single one of those centimetres. But the thing is, I have spent my entire life compacting them by tilting my hip to one side, hanging my head or stooping to make myself appear the same height as my shorter compatriots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to make myself physically and metaphorically smaller: \u201cI didn\u2019t go to university\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m blonde\u201d, \u201cI haven\u2019t got a witty reply to everything\u201d, or \u201cI don\u2019t understand anything\u201d are all things I\u2019ve heard myself saying all my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson Mandela was right when he said: Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my 50th birthday, I bought myself my nth pair of high-heeled shoes, because women in high heels always look like someone to be reckoned with.  I also enrolled on a Master\u2019s degree, because it\u2019s never too late to learn, but the main gift I gave myself was permission to say that I\u2019m clever, that I\u2019m bubbling over with enthusiasm and full of common sense, and most of all, that I\u2019ve got a talent for inspiring others!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that big-headed of me?  Perhaps.  But it\u2019s a much more effective springboard than always starting off by saying that I\u2019m useless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about you? What inner light would you like to shine out so that you can change the world in 2018?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“1 m 80 [5\u20199″]?”\u00a0 said the person I was talking to, somewhat taken aback. Well, yes actually, I am every single one of those centimetres. But the thing is, I have spent my entire life compacting them by tilting my hip to one side, hanging my head or stooping to make myself appear the same height as my shorter compatriots. I used to make myself physically and metaphorically smaller: \u201cI didn\u2019t go to university\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m blonde\u201d, \u201cI haven\u2019t got a witty reply to everything\u201d, or \u201cI don\u2019t understand anything\u201d are all things I\u2019ve heard myself saying all my life. Nelson Mandela was right when he said: Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? For my 50th birthday, I bought myself my nth pair of high-heeled shoes, because women in high heels always look like someone to be reckoned with.  I also enrolled on a Master\u2019s degree, because it\u2019s never too late to learn, but the main gift I gave myself was permission to say that I\u2019m clever, that I\u2019m bubbling over with enthusiasm and full of common sense, and most of all, that I\u2019ve got a talent for inspiring others! Is that big-headed of me?  Perhaps.  But it\u2019s a much more effective springboard than always starting off by saying that I\u2019m useless! What about you? What inner light would you like to shine out so that you can change the world in 2018?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[2317,2632,2633,2634,2635,2537],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n