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Try This Simple Exercise If You Suck at Belonging

How to Be OK with Yourself and the World Around Us

Clifford Jones
4 min readFeb 24, 2023

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Do you cringe at the mere thought of attending a “networking event?”

Does small talk make you want to teleport out of the room?

Love spending lots of time alone in nature, practicing art, or writing articles nobody reads since Smartphones jacked our attention spans?

Have you often thought, “I’m not from this place,” but you’re unsure where you’re from if it’s not the planet Earth?

Do you consistently wonder if you suck at belonging?

Me, too. And I’ve learned to love being introverted even though I can appear extroverted when doing activities aligned with my core values and purpose to teach, coach, and serve others.

If you’re like me, you’re about to learn to be more okay with yourself and the world.

Practice One Simple Exercise

Here’s the most straightforward exercise I can offer for dealing with the feeling of not belonging and not feeling OK enough; get used to it.

Accept that the crappy feelings you have are your springboard to courage, clarity, and the commitment to be more OK with yourself and the world and knowing where you…

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Clifford Jones
Clifford Jones

Written by Clifford Jones

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