Meet Daniel Overberger

We were lucky to catch up with Daniel Overberger recently and have shared our conversation below.

Daniel , first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

I don’t think most normal people overcome imposter syndrome. Your really going to need to move forward regardless. Over time the voice in the back of your head telling you “your an imposter” may get quieter or you will just get used to ignoring it and moving forward. The positive side of imposter syndrome is it is a great motivator. You should always be trying to get better at what you do and learn more skills inside and outside of your field.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I’ve been teaching yoga in a park in Los Angeles called Runyon Canyon for 20 years. If you step back and consider this I would guess it comes off as strange. Of course it has been a success but, in the begin people would think, “how could this work”. It’s a service to the people. But, it is a trade. The people get a great yoga class and then they leave a donation. It’s circular energy. The recognition I have received from this work has also open up my teaching in private. I teach in peoples homes, places of business and assisted living community. I have worked very hard at maintaining this work but I have also been blessed and lucky.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Go through the open door. I think a lot of people. My self included, spend a lot of time fixated on a very specific goal. But, things change and shift as you move forward. You should except this and slightly adjust your sails. My business is a people business and it’a personality business. You need to learn about people and how they think and move. In my work I feel the need to give the student an amount of freedom. If you can lead the student to discovering there own solutions and answers the impact is much stronger. Of course it is a balance and not everything works for everyone. If you listen and watch people they will think you can read minds. But, people are releasing all kinds of information knowingly and unknowingly and that information can help you in your work of being in servers to making them better or reach the goals they are looking to reach.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday came to me at the perfect time. It really made the lessons of the stoics much more palatable. Of course I try and continue to try to read “Meditations” but the old language was difficult to digest. I guess The Obstacle Is the Way made it modern. It showed me that not every problem is a disaster. That maybe it was not a problem at all. Maybe it was just a sign to turn left when you were turning right. Maybe it was actually making you stronger. That friction is not bad. As a yoga teacher I am helping people to create tension in the body. Stretching is tension. It is the release and the opening that yoga creates that makes it a good thing. But you must start with the push into tension. Otherwise it’s nothing.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.danieloverberger.com/
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