WHY ARE YOU HIDING?

I was privileged to co-moderate a conference session online recently. As the session started, the guest professor on the panel I was moderating, first of all, noted that she was glad to see my face again and that she has read some of my work and watched some of my videos. I smiled and thanked her, and we continued with the conversation. However, I had never met her in my heart of heart, nor have I heard her name before.We connected after the conference, and I was surprised when she told me where she had first encountered me. She noted that she was in attendance at one of the conferences where I had spoken in 2018 in Kigali, and she had followed me silently online since then. Sometime in 2019, I noticed that about 25 South African students followed me on the same day across all my social media, and I wondered where the recommendation came from. I discovered in our conversation that she had used one of my articles to instruct the students in class, and the students came to follow me after the course.I was humbled when she narrated how one of the articles in my book, "understanding to the simple", changed her forever. Remember, I never noticed her as one of my followers. She had never clicked the like button on any of my posts, yet she is one of the biggest promoters of my works in faraway South Africa.I have come to ask you this morning to keep doing that thing you love doing. Put in all your effort. Give value and change lives. Share your stories unapologetically. Be consistent. My most significant moments are when I walk into a place I never thought anyone would know me, and I get these random " thank you for your work" from total strangers.Below are my discoveries that can help you to overcome the impostor syndrome;1. The people getting the most significant value from your work are not necessarily the people liking, commenting and sharing your work.2. The number of people that liked your work is not necessarily the number of people your work reached.3. For every work you put out, at least ten people would consume it without showing their faces on the work.4. Stop unfriending people because they don't like or comment on your work; you impact lives more than you can ever imagine.5. You can never imagine where your name is being mentioned because of your consistency and the value you deliver online.6. Stop doing it for the likes and comments, do it because you know someone is getting value from your content.He gives understanding to the simple.Oluwaseun David ADEPOJU.