I admit it, that title is click bait. I'm not a nudist.

However, I feel like I've learned to be comfortable being naked, figuratively, of course.

My nakedness is my thoughts and opinions. I've just been laying it out there. What I think, and what I believe. No stylish garments to dress up who I am or what I want in my life.

The strange thing is the more I've let it all hang out, the more opportunities I've discovered.

When I tell people exactly what's in my head, they have a lot of the same ideas. What I expect to be wild, they see as normal.

Maybe this isn't new to anyone else. Maybe I've just repressed myself for so long and worry so much about how people will judge me that I haven't let myself be open to exposing myself.

It all started with finding other naked souls. Reading about people who were afraid to show themselves until they too learned that when you open up to your most vulnerable state, you connect more deeply with other humans.

Meeting people who trusted that baring it all would pay off in the long run.

I've always been able to share my opinions openly with the people close to me. Beyond that, I'm not the type of person to engage in a spirited debate with people I don't know well.

For one thing, I haven't had much of a platform to share my thoughts. Even when I had the platform, I was reluctant to reveal my true self because of how it might reflect on my whole person. For me, writing has become that platform.

I think that I started sharing things they were fairly innocuous.

My ideas on 15 minute blocks of time to get things done were pretty safe. Nothing too insane in that. Sort of like betting a sock in a game of strip poker.

As I shared that thought, a few people responded and told me they felt that way as well.

Then I started sharing a little more about how I felt about work and the corporate world. I bet my shirt - a little more bold, but still pretty safe.

My colleagues began sending me emails telling me they read what I wrote and that it resonated with them.

As I have become more confident in my ideas, I’ve been able to shed more and more layers of inhibition.

If I’m really feeling strong about the ideas I have in my head, I might go all in. Maybe I catch a great card on the river or maybe I get beat, but I can't really find out unless I am sitting there, in all my naked glory, letting the world see my big ideas.

James Altucher says that you should be scared of what you publish. If it doesn't scare you, don't put it out there.

That's a hard fear to overcome. Will what I say change people's opinion of me? Probably, and that may be a good thing. It may be a bad thing, but the important thing is that there is a change of some sort.

No creature ever evolved without change.

You can't change if you wear the same clothes everyday. You won't get noticed. You won't have the opportunity to have your voice heard. You won't have the opportunity to change if people don't tell you what they think of you.

If someone walked down the street naked, would you notice? I know I would.

I've also noticed that as we age, we tend to become more comfortable naked. I notice this literally in the men's locker room at the gym. Why is it that old men have no problem hanging out naked talking to other old men? Is it generational or does it happen when you get old. I guess I'll find out.

Outside of the locker room, being naked is not something we normally do. In the literal sense, that's a good thing. Very few of us should ever be physically naked in public, especially the old men at the gym.

But intellectually, psychologically, spiritually, and emotionally, we should strive to be naked as much as possible.

We don't need to be flamboyantly naked. There's no need to strut or thrust or otherwise be disgusting with our figurative nakedness. I am sure in the nudist colony there is still an element of decorum and a social standard to interacting with other people who aren't wearing clothes.

Our nakedness should be tasteful. Our ideas, no matter how raw should be on display in a way in which others want to interact. I can tell you what I really think about a topic or subject in a way that doesn't come off as rude or obnoxious.

And once I have shown you that it is okay to take off your figurative clothes, you may want to take yours off as well. Then we can really get down to the root of the idea. Into the parts that are scary and exciting at the same time. Where the passion really starts to develop and as that happens, new ideas form, and opportunities arise and things start to happen.

When was the last time your bared it all? When are you going to start?