Lamide Akintobi Teaches Us an Important Lesson about Self Worth

Media personality and producer, Lamide Akintobi, dropped some seriously profound gems the other day and girls, you know we just had to share.

The modelesque beauty took took to Instagram to share her feelings about being bashful about publicly celebrating one’s accomplishments, and the need for herself and others to stop playing small.

She shared the photo and the caption below:

 

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I need to stop playing small. I don’t make a lot of noise about what I do or what I’ve done, but sometimes I don’t know how much of it is shyness and how much of it is Impostor Syndrome. Take this fab picture for example. I love it. @KolaOshalusi took it. It’s stunning. But I felt ‘a kinda way’ about posting it. And I don’t even know why! ______________________________________________ Also, the Bible says “Don’t call attention to yourself; let others do that for you” Proverbs 27:2 MSG But nowadays, when it seems like the loudest people get the opportunities you think you deserve (and maybe you don’t, but that’s another angle 😂), it can be hard to figure out how much “noise” you need to make so that you are at least a player in the game. Especially as a woman. In almost every field. You have to lean in, you have to make yourself heard, and I know the God I love doesn’t even want me to be or feel “less than,” because after all, we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. We are royalty. So I haven’t figured it out yet, but I think it’s something we should intentionally decide: to equip ourselves for opportunities, to say yes to things and figure out the how later (not for everything o, biko apply wisdom, 😂), to be bold in whatever space we occupy and be excellent in all aspects because then, even when our voices aren’t the loudest, our work, our efforts, our results, speak for us. Please share your thoughts on this, especially ladies. If it’s something you’ve struggled with, how do you deal? If you haven’t, I salute – please share how you do it! _______________________________________________ Bottom line: We need to stop playing small ❤️

A post shared by Lamide (@lamide_a) on Aug 24, 2018 at 6:18am PDT

(hey! for those of y’all who may not be able to see the embedded instagram link above due to Internet lol, see below:)

I need to stop playing small. I don’t make a lot of noise about what I do or what I’ve done, but sometimes I don’t know how much of it is shyness and how much of it is Impostor Syndrome. Take this fab picture for example. I love it. @KolaOshalusi took it. It’s stunning. But I felt ‘a kinda way’ about posting it. And I don’t even know why!
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Also, the Bible says “Don’t call attention to yourself; let others do that for you”
Proverbs 27:2 MSG

But nowadays, when it seems like the loudest people get the opportunities you think you deserve (and maybe you don’t, but that’s another angle 😂), it can be hard to figure out how much “noise” you need to make so that you are at least a player in the game. Especially as a woman. In almost every field. You have to lean in, you have to make yourself heard, and I know the God I love doesn’t even want me to be or feel “less than,” because after all, we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. We are royalty. So I haven’t figured it out yet, but I think it’s something we should intentionally decide: to equip ourselves for opportunities, to say yes to things and figure out the how later (not for everything o, biko apply wisdom, 😂), to be bold in whatever space we occupy and be excellent in all aspects because then, even when our voices aren’t the loudest, our work, our efforts, our results, speak for us. Please share your thoughts on this, especially ladies. If it’s something you’ve struggled with, how do you deal? If you haven’t, I salute – please share how you do it!
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Bottom line: We need to stop playing small ❤️

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We totally agree with her.

Photo Credit: Bland2Glam