I have been competing all morning to get #2 of Competition Week done. Here it is!

When Naked is Good

Naked is good when you are appropriately showing your true self to those whom you want to show yourself to. Being vulnerable, telling who you really are, your struggles, successes, failures, flaws, highlights – those are all in the ‘naked is good’ category and people respond to it. It makes you MORE popular and endearing to your friends, fans, followers, customers, clients, to see a well-rounded version of you.

When Naked is Bad

Naked is bad when you are inappropriately showing your stupidity, desperation, insensitivities, and disrespect. You aren’t choosing to be intentionally vulnerable, you are making a fool of yourself.  You are ruining yourself in the eyes of others. You aren’t seeing yourself clearly, otherwise you would never expose yourself the way you are.

Witnessing Naked

Most of the people I know who could possibly be considered my competitors in one field or another are good friends or at least respectful acquaintances.  I would be willing to help them to some degree and I know they would do the same for me.  But in business if someone is directly competing with me for specific business I am not going to give them my insights as to why a move they might be making is a bad one. 

I am not wishing them ill. I am certainly not designing any activity that would purposely make their business more difficult to run. But I am doing all that I can can to make sure I am the better person for the job and that includes leaving them to their own devices. If they succeed, I am happy for them. If they don’t, I am going to take advantage of the void they create.

What about you, what do you think of this idea?

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Drawing by Marty Coleman, who doesn’t have many enemies.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte, who had a lot of enemies.

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