TrueVoice Tuesday: 10.15.24

A Truth (one thought about sharing your TrueVoice):

The real risks aren’t outside of us. They’re what happens if we silence and submerge our TrueVoice for too long.  

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A Tip (one thing I’ve picked up from others this week):

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men, as a whole, experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller, as quoted on this must listen to podcast about never playing it safe with Chase Jarvis and Rich Roll. 

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A Take (a strong opinion or nitpick):

We hide, deflect, lie, withhold, and deny because we’re scared to admit to ourselves what it is we really want. Because once we do, we are forced to do something about it. 
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A Tale ( with a book update):

We like to believe it’s the externalities that are preventing us from living the story we want with our lives.

But the padlock is locked from the inside. 

And we are the ones holding the key.

We think our limiting factors are time, money, age, and what is happening to us. 

But beyond that convenient excuse lies the real work of liberation. 

The gentle, purposeful, slow, shame-free, shaky steps towards our TrueVoice. 

Last week I got three writing sessions in. Progress from the locked up weeks that preceded it. It helps that we spent four meeting free days in the desert mountains, a place that feels familiar now, even though we’re still getting to know each other.

The dance between the cactus and hustle of Phoenix, the luxury of Scottsdale, the rugged red of Sedona, and the adventure of Flagstaff is still carrying me into this week. 

It left its mark. 

1,238 new words added to the plot.

18,269 in total.

Two sessions in AZ. 

One late night chunk of work in KC. 

I realized this week that daily writing on LinkedIn has been a great habit builder, but in some ways, it’s been safe. 

And preventing me from open up the TrueVoice Book google doc, shutting everything else off, taking an eyes-closed deep prayer breath, and seeing what bleeds out. 

I’m glad more came out this week. And I’m eager to keep going. 

Here’s an unedited chunk that worked its way into the world…

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Plans look great on a spreadsheet. Goals and resolutions are resolute in your journal. 

But in the wild of the real world, it’s orientation that carries us. 

When we drift.

When the course needs correcting. 

When we lose our way. 

Or when, heaven forbid, we shipwreck into the rugged rocks of reality. 

If we don’t know where we’re going, how will we know how to get there? 

And, if we don’t know how we’ll get there, how will we even know who we are? 

Orientation isn’t an external objectification of progress, at least not initially.

It begins inside. 

Where it’s stormy, distracted, and scary. 

The interior experience of navigating your TrueVoice is only possible when you get clear on your True North. 

The alignment of your integrity.

The naming of your demons.

The congruence of your desires.

The harmony that blossoms after your anxiety runs its course.

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