THE VOICES

And the mirror...

Every time I write something on LinkedIn or Substack, I feel incredibly stupid right afterwards. The Voice kicks in - something like: “That was too flat”, “That was incredibly personal”, “Too much emotion”, “Can you stop bragging”.

And then comes checking. Again and again. How did people react, did they too feel whatever the Voice was telling me? Did it land the way I wanted it to land?

And then there is the Other Voice. That somehow makes its way up to the top and says:

“STOP looking, STOP thinking, you thought about something and shared it with the Universe, you have put it out there, THAT’S VICTORY, THAT’S WINNING.”

“Everything else is just the Universe doing its thing, you can never predict what happens - THERE IS NO RIGHT LANDING, because there are no rules, just too many variables out there.”

But the BEST THING is what it does to me. Every time I go through this cycle, and I let the OTHER VOICE prevail, I learn something. Every time I don’t pick up the phone and don’t check the reactions, I flex a muscle. Every time I listen to the Voice that says you are Stupid, and go: “No, you are just a voice in my head, you are not me”, or every time I fail to do it, it show me a mirror and I learn something about myself.

AND that — that is beautiful. Worth going through again and again. However hard it is.