Eric Schleien
2 min readMar 27, 2021

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NEVER DIM YOUR LIGHT ON YOUR MISSION

Never dim your light while fulfilling your mission in life. To diminish yourself and dim your own light for anyone or any circumstance is asinine and flat out stupid. Many people often dim themselves when they think their greatness will be a threat to someone’s “normalness”. Reacting to that kind of reaction has you sell out on that other person for the sake of comfort. But it’s a disempowered comfort. Deep down you feel like shit. Any kind of thinking that you will empower others through joining them in their smallness is about the dumbest tactic I’ve ever seen and it simply doesn’t work.

Some people will want you to act a certain way to not upset others or make others feel uncomfortable. You will always upset someone and someone will always feel uncomfortable with something you do when you’re truly being great and acting from an integrous place of Self where your actions are 100% aligned with your core. It’s in this space where you will be most powerful in life.

When you don’t do this to not upset someone else, you literally disempower yourself and then no longer able to be a light for others. Meeting someone at their smallness instead of letting others rise to your greatness is such a huge mistake.

Yes, it’s important to be empathetic. Yes, it’s important to feel for someone else. Yes, it’s important to get where someone is at.

And….yes, it’s important to still act from a space of Self and be that light and vision for others no matter how upset or uncomfortable that will make some people. When you’re acting from that, your light will ALWAYS have some people feel threatened. People cling onto what is in their box and if you share outside their box, some people will literally fight for their smallness when you are standing for their greatness.

Someone who never has time will never be a great example of abundance in life.

Someone who is sick and overweight will never be a great example of health.

Someone who doesn’t keep their agreements will never be a great example of leadership.

When you shine your light and speak from a space of what’s possible, you allow others to see something for themselves as well. You create an environment that maximizes others seeing new possibility for themselves. This is how you alter what’s possible for others on the planet.

Then it’s set the conditions and see who shows up to the party. Don’t make the conditions worse because someone is scared of those conditions and then fuck it up for everyone else. That’s truly a disservice to others and yourself.

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Eric Schleien

Hello :) I’m the CEO & Founder of Granite State Capital Management, LLC. I’m also passionate about the Tribal Leadership Technology & Coach people & orgs.