The Power of Onlyness

The size or weight of onlyness isn’t the point. Notice that it need not have a name, because that’s not the relevant part—only that you can understand enough of what matters to you to understand how to then act on it.

By keeping the focus on the gift itself, though, you can keep your ideas always at the forefront—even if they don’t fall comfortably into an existing “category,” even if there are many other people doing similar things.

“Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back?”3 Then, act.

You can always find time for things that matter by consuming less and creating more.

For your idea to even have a chance, you have to give it room to grow.

How you respond to a situation like this—a challenge, a new situation, something that bothers you—depends very much on who you are, what you care about, and why.

Luckily, there’s an easily accessible antidote to imposter syndrome. It is simply to be yourself, and to be so deeply committed to a purpose that what matters is not how you appear to others but what is actually served.

But it’s worth remembering that she started this work about seven years ago, when almost no one thought it was an especially viable idea. Since then, Marie Claire, Oprah Winfrey, and even President Obama’s White House have “discovered” her, and the reason most of us think her timing is perfect is because Kim and others like her had the foresight to

First, you stand in that spot in the world that only you stand in, then you meaningfully connect with others so that you (and, more to the point, your ideas) finally have a new pathway in.