Whose Voice is in Your Head

How do you grow a cell? In Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief, he shared the most important lesson he learned as a graduate student.

If cells are in a good environment, they grow. If the cells are in a less than optimal environment, they became sick. When a “sick” cell in a poor environment enters an improved environment, the becomes “revitalized.”

THE STATE OF YOUR MIND

What is the state of your mind now? It made me think about the emotional states we are in when we create the stories we share about our work, stories that have great potential to help make meaningful connections with our audience.

We tend to live in labels. We label our efforts as good or bad. We label our work as professional or woowoo. We think of our audience as adversarial or welcoming. We look at the success of others and think I can do that or I'll never be able to do that.

Lama Rod Owens states, “If we really want to get serious about disrupting violence in the workplace [or in our own mind] we have to get serious about fluidity.”

LIVING WITHOUT LABELS

To me this means, we have to live and work without the labels we put on ourselves and others.

Building a business or building a life means going out of one's comfort zone. It means trying and failing and trying again. It means taking steps forward even when you are not ready, even if your action doesn't look "right" in the eyes of others.

THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD

Is the voice in your head helpful or harmful. And if your voice is harmful, what is it about that voice that you believe? And what do you need to let go of?

This past Tuesday, the New Zealand Maori MP Rawiri Waitit was banned from debating in the parliamentary chamber for not wearing “appropriate business attire.” Waitit refused to wear a tie, saying “it’s not about ties, it’s about cultural identity,” and calling ties a colonial noose. He stood his ground and the parliament changed its rules.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING YOURSELF

We need to strive to do good work. Sometimes our best work won't be as good as we hoped. Even so, we need to keep showing up. We need to believe in ourselves. And we need to cultivate environments where we can be ourselves.

What would the world look like if it didn't require so much courage to be ourselves?