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Why now is the hour to raise your voice

My blog is late this week. I had the best of intentions, the best of ideas, but when it came to sitting down and writing, I felt distracted.

It wasn’t just the back-to-school chaos or the post-holiday laundry pile the size of Mt Vesuvius. It was the deeply unsettling feeling that the world has gone bananas. Again.

Over the last year, I’ve grown accustomed to my jaw dropping as I read the newspaper. I’ve lost count of the times I thought international affairs couldn’t get any stranger or more confounding.

But if there is one thing that encourages me to take heart, it’s this: people are speaking up.

In the usual course of events, it’s easy for societal change to slip by almost unnoticed. When you’re not directly affected by policy changes or injustices, you can read the headlines and carry on with life in your bubble. 

Keep your head down.

Not my issue.

Enough of politics – let’s have some puppies and kittens.

We can start to take our rights for granted, to assume that battles for fairness or justice or equality are largely won, even while those rights are being slowly, incrementally, insidiously eroded.

That’s until something drastic – or personal – shocks us out of our complacency.

Whatever your political views, the events of the last nine months or so are calling us to consider what kind of society we want to live in and speak up for what we believe.

People all around the world have become outraged enough to raise their voices. They’re marching, they’re organising around causes that matter to them, they’re saying no to grave injustices. They’re calling politicians, putting their jobs on the line, using black humour to share ideas and illuminate hypocrisy, or donating time and money to help strangers find a way forward. Actions they might never have contemplated, situations they might never have gotten involved with, had they not been jolted wide awake.

From such passion and commitment, truly powerful and compassionate change may spring.

It might not be pretty and it might take some time. But there is power in raising your voice and speaking your truth. In choosing to be more than just a statistic. It’s a privilege denied to many.

Which brings me back to you.

You and your work, your message, your mission.

Are you going through the motions in your business, all the while knowing that you’re here to do more? You know your message and your vision runs far deeper – but you’re cruising along, keeping your head down, shying away from sharing your truth.

What will it take for you to finally own your voice?

You don’t have to wait for something cataclysmic to shock you out of your complacency.

You don’t have to have suffered horrendous life events to have a story worth sharing.

And you don’t have to wait for your world – or someone else’s – to come crashing down before you commit to sharing your truth or declaring what you believe in.

What would it take for you to speak up and write from the heart?

You have the choice today, to start writing and sharing what you believe in.

To stop playing it safe.

To leave beyond mediocrity.

To call in your tribe.

To make meaning from your work and your words.

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