Failure is not fatal or final! Living Your Unique requires bold and radical moves. One habit that can get in the way is waiting for or asking for permission. In Dr. Patty Ann Tublin's Huffington Post article "Women Need to Stop Asking for Permission," she explains that being passive by waiting to ask for permission is one big reason women lose out on career opportunities. In fact, asking permission requires you to place the person you are asking in a position of authority.

bul·ly /ˈbo͝olē/ noun a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. verb use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants. Being Unique doesn't come without its own set of challenges. One of those challenges becomes facing the bullies around us. As a little girl, I was fascinated with the cartoon "Popeye." Popeye spent the first part of these skits being harassed and intimidated

We live in a blame culture - we want to know whose fault it is and how they're going to pay. Dr. Brene Brown Too many people are in love with being "nice." We live in a space where we don't want others to be mad at us (or not like us). So we spend a lot of time and energy between being NASTY out of frustration and making it up by being NICE on the back end. Or overwhelming people with our NICE so they won't notice our NASTY. I was once the Queen of this strategy. I would d