Tin y'all hear it?

The life rhythm in your caput? The one that is all your own?

It keeps you marching toward a more exciting and rewarding life, if you just allow it play.

Your own drum beat inspires you to practise your thing your manner.

The world says follow the rhythm of the big drum, the one it plays for everyone.

Walk to the same basic vanquish it hammers into us from kindergarten on.

It's "condom." It'south "normal."

Just what fun is that?

Especially when you lot don't really want to just walk through life.

You lot want to march. With way. And y'all should.

Your mental and physical wellness will benefit profoundly. Here's why:

  1. Actuality: marching to the beat of your own drum keeps you honest. Honest with yourself and honest with others. To truly be yourself in a world of social media comparison and a revolving bombardment of social norms tin exist tough. The more than life you lot alive the more yous may realize that "be yourself" really is good advice. Your mental health is bolstered through increased self awareness and acceptance. Commitment to living life according to your own values and needs teaches you to be gratifyingly vulnerable, transparent, answerable, and real.
  1. Creativity: marching to the beat of your ain pulsate is mentally stimulating. By nature, the procedure of tuning into yourself and moving to that unique beat is stimulating. Y'all create something original every time you filter the world'due south values, norms, perceptions, and pressures to make something meaningful of your life and your energies.
  1. Community: marching to the beat of your own drum draws people to you. People who appreciate what y'all have to offer help make life much more fulfilling. Your own pulsate crush makes you lot distinctive and private, simply you can still belong to a close customs when y'all do your ain thing. Satisfying relationships are much more probable when you are yourself, warts and all. Someone following his or her own path is often viewed as interesting, potent, and a person to be respected.
  1. Flexibility: marching to the beat of your own pulsate creates resilience. The ability to bounce dorsum, change class, or accept a situation so that you lot can learn and grow comes with learning to be yourself. Marching to your own drum beat out is a mettlesome determination to swim confronting the social current. This teaches you lot how to accept that sometimes you don't have the answers. Sometimes yous'll fail. Sometimes you'll be misunderstood, or no one will "get" you. Merely your commitment to existence yourself can let experience teach you lot, inform you, and brand your march that much sweeter.
  1. Liberty: marching to the beat of your own drum is oftentimes stress-gratis. Unencumbered by societal convention, you lot can extend to yourself the compassion and acceptance you may have withheld in the past. It's okay to be. Information technology's okay to modify. It's okay to just be okay. At that place is freedom in not having to keep up with the Joneses or the Kardashians or your older brother.

The stress of measuring up falls away when you turn upward the bass and march your way.

Your ain drum beat doesn't include the usual sort of criticism or disapproval.

Your beat merely invites you and encourages you to keep marching.

Head upward, shoulders dorsum, and rocking your ain crush.

"Doubt yourself and y'all dubiousness everything you encounter. Judge yourself and you lot see judges everywhere. But if you heed to the audio of your own voice, you tin can ascension above doubtfulness and judgment. And you tin can encounter forever."

~Nancy Lopez, first adult female to receive the French republic's Ouimet Accolade for lifelong contributions to golf.