“Fake it till you make it” used to be a phrase I swore by, a phrase that I wholeheartedly believed in. It was something that would give my ego a boast when I was down or feeling sorry for myself. It really used to resonate with me-if you don’t know something, fake like you do, until you actually do! It was that simple, until I started to see what that same mentality, was doing to people around me. I thought to myself, am I one of these idiots? Would I rather risk my job or not be able to pay my bills just because I wanted to save face? [Read more…]