My biggest fear isn’t that I won’t be a success, that I won’t be taken seriously or that I’ll go unnoticed. It isn’t that I won’t be the best husband or father in the world, that my children won’t live up to their potential or that I won’t fulfill my potential.

My biggest fear is that I am a powerful person. That I have potential. That I am an inspiration. My biggest fear is that people will watch me and, in watching me, will make me not want to outshine them. My biggest fear is that I will hide who I am for fear that it will offend someone else, that it will cause someone shame or that I will in fact be better than someone else.

But hiding who I am, being falsely humble and standing back when I should be stepping up does everyone a disservice. If I show who I am to the world, it will cause others to show who they are. And the world will be better for it.

My New Year’s Resolution isn’t to be anything more than who I am. And it’s to not allow myself to be any less.

Feel free to call me on this if you see me standing back when I should be at the front, being quiet when I should be speaking up or ever saying “it’s nothing” when I’ve done something worth being thanked for. And, hopefully, I’ll call you on it if you do it too.