The Truth Within and How Owning Your Completeness Rewrites Your Career Story
- Aug 11, 2025
- 3 min read
Meera Jhogasundram is a certified professional coach and a bestselling author of 6 books. She is the founder of M Jhoga Coaching & Consulting, who specialises in leadership, performance, transitions, well-being, and energy leadership. She has been named as one of the top coaches in Geneva in 2022 and 2023.
In an era defined by external benchmarks, curated résumés, algorithmic approval, polished public personas, the pressure to prove one’s worth is both constant and exhausting. It’s easy to believe we must build, earn, or perform our way to wholeness. But what if the truth is simpler, deeper, and more radical? What if you were already complete?
This isn’t an empty affirmation. It’s liberating clarity. And as explored in my book You Are the Truth: 7 Powerful Ways to Slay the False, the recognition of your innate completeness is not just personal revelation; it’s professional revolution. It marks the moment when you stop seeking permission and start claiming presence.
Let’s unpack five essential shifts that occur when you embrace your wholeness, and how this understanding can illuminate your career in ways ambition alone cannot.
1. Self-awareness: The quiet confidence that moves mountains
To know yourself, truly and without embellishment, is to possess a kind of grounded power that defies performance. Self-awareness isn’t just introspection; it’s the foundation for courageous choices. When you understand your capacity, your values, and your worth, you begin to take strategic risks not for recognition, but for alignment. You don’t wait to be chosen; you begin to choose. And in doing so, your career ceases to be reactive and becomes intentional.
2. Authenticity: The signal that opens doors
In a workplace crowded with façade and protocol, authenticity becomes magnetic. When you speak from truth, lead with integrity, and operate without distortion, others notice. You become a voice people trust. A leader whose decisions carry weight not because they echo trends, but because they resonate with sincerity. And this attracts, not just collaboration, but opportunities that are meant for who you actually are.
3. Motivation rooted in truth, not applause
The moment you realize you don’t need external approval to feel complete, you reclaim one of the most valuable currencies of the professional world: intrinsic motivation. You work for mastery, not applause. You create for impact, not likes. This shift in motive unlocks creativity, resilience, and stamina. You’re no longer swayed by the transient opinions of others; your compass points inward, and your trajectory soars outward.
4. Empowerment in the Face of Challenge
When you view yourself as whole, adversity doesn’t define you; it sharpens you. You stop outsourcing power to circumstances, and you begin responding with clarity, strength, and innovation. Setbacks become platforms. Critique becomes refinement. The false belief that you must be “fixed” before you can lead begins to dissolve. You rise not because challenges disappear, but because you’ve stopped doubting that you’re equipped to meet them.
5. A culture of wholeness, one that uplifts all
Those who know they are complete don’t compete for attention. They build connection. In recognizing your own sufficiency, you foster generosity, support, and collaboration in your environment. Work becomes less about hierarchy and more about shared contribution. Teams thrive. Trust grows. And the ripple effect of your truth leads to a culture where excellence and humanity co-exist.
Closing insight
To slay the false is to pierce illusion, the illusion that you’re not enough, that value must be earned, that confidence must be borrowed.
But is it the truth? The truth is unshakable. You are not incomplete. You are not waiting to be validated. You are not a product of your résumé or your LinkedIn headline.
You are the truth. Complete. Capable. Called.
For individuals and professionals seeking to anchor their path in truth and construct careers from clarity, I offer private consultations and empowerment intensives.
The journey begins not when you become something new, but when you remember who you already are.
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Meera Jhogasundram, Career Transition Coach & Author
Meera pursued her journey to career excellence by graduating summa cum laude in the Doctor of International Relations programme and underwent training to become a certified professional coach. As a result, Meera founded M Jhoga Coaching & Consulting and she specialises in five areas of expertise:
Energy Leadership™ Index Master Practitioner
COR.E Leadership Dynamics™ Specialist
COR.E Transitions Dynamics™ Specialist
COR.E Performance Dynamics™ Specialist
COR.E Wellbeing Dynamics™ Specialist
Meera has also been named as one of the top coaches in Geneva in 2022 and 2023.
