Ian Lawton

This week I wrote a four part series on authenticity and taking off masks. Jim Morrison, Doors frontman, said, "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are." Please follow each link below to read the series as it unfolded.

1. The first article is about the power of authenticity. Click here to read.
2. The second is about authenticity’s payoff. Recover your born identity. Click here to read.
3. The third offers practical steps to live more authentically. Its exhausting not to live authentically. Click here to read.
4. The fourth piece is about the connection between living authentically and the needs of the planet. Masks and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Click here to read.

In order to BE yourself, you have to KNOW yourself. Once you start living authentically, life becomes filled with joy. And as Gandhi said, "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Have an awesome week of finding, living, loving and being yourself.