That's So You

I was almost scammed.
It was a week long event
That included my agent redlining a contract.
I tell the whole hilarious thing in It’s A Lot.

But the part of it that I keep thinking about
Is that thing where you’re reading the possibly scam email
Looking for the tell.
Just that one word.
Slightly off.
Maybe a nuance.
Something you can’t even put your finger on.
Just the way it sounds.
There was none of that.
Until the second person
Who was going to help with paperwork.
And bam.
(Sidenote: Always make sure your staff is up to speed - ha ha).

It just didn’t sound right.

And I started to think about that idea.
Sounding right.

And how sounding right
Isn’t about sound correct
It’s so much about sounding like yourself.

One of my favorite things to be able to say to a client is
That’s so you.
It lights a person up.
Knowing somehow they have found that thing.
That they are on their own right path.
At the center of their own spinning wheel.

Because if it’s not so you
Why bother?
Let someone else do it.
We are here to do our own work.
We all somehow know that.
And it’s why people persist in that annoying
You do you.

Sounding like yourself
Comes most easily when you are
In every single way
Being yourself.
In love.
In food.
In fashion.
Etc etc.
And the trick is to do it
Without somehow becoming entranced
By our own mythical specialness.
Just work on refining the essence of you.
Call it soul.
Call it vibration.
Call it your unique expression of the oneness.

For creative folx
When we find the work that is so us
It goes so much more easily.
It’s like we have learned our own language.
Sometimes sounding right
Means finding the right project.
Not just the way you put a sentence together.

As listeners - readers - audience - viewers
We are always looking for those things too.
Because we know being entertained
Can be fun
But when you find work
That has the it’s so you thing
It fills our souls.
Moves us from consumers to collaborators.
Because something that
Sounds right
Is so you
Rings true
Needs ears to hear it.
It yearns to be heard.
Seen.
Felt.
Lived in and with.

And the way to find being so you.
Is sometimes being so not you.
It’s not that different than a dressing room.
You try on a lot of stuff.
And every now and then
There’s something you don’t want to take off
Even long enough to pay for it.
You want to wear it out of the store.
And probably every day for the next 6 months.
Or the rest of your life.
Because it is so you.

That feeling.
Is. The. Best.

Work towards that.
Or why waste your time?
Or ours.

The way to being so you
Is when you find that sweet spot
Dive into it.
Do more of it.

Imagine it as the center of the target.
And you literally diving into the bright red
Energized bull’s eye.
Then swimming in the energy of
Being so you.

And we can get analytical
As well as metaphorical.
What makes it so you?

There’s a great documentary about Chuck Berry.
At one point Keith Richards says:
It’s not just the sound of it.
It’s the total sound of it.
Which just cracks me up.
Because it’s such a kind of stoner way to describe
This thing that is so hard to describe.
The only thing worth aiming for.
The so you-ness.
The total sound of it.

If you are there - thank you for your service.
We need you.

If you desire assistance in finding that so you thing
The Infinite Creator programs might be for you.

Infinitely Yours,
Beth