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Whose Voice is Loudest In Your Life?

Making your voice more prominent than the voices of others makes it infinitely more possible to maximize your total gift of a life.

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Emily Burnett
Apr 30, 2024
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You know those people who never ask for advice, make every decision confidently, and never second-guess their decisions, confident that this situation will work out for them just as amazingly as everything else has? Those people really need to take up a sport at which they’re truly awful so the rest of us late bloomers can like them better. I recommend pickleball for a very humbling but very fun sport.

I’ve asked for and received lots of advice in my life. Too much honestly. Much of it has been unsolicited, but I’ve also done way too much asking. This at times made the voices of others much louder in my life than my own voice. And when your own voice is quiet, it’s tough to hear—obviously—and even harder to trust.

In the prolonged chapter of exploration I’m doing, it’s been pretty cool to hear more of my own voice. Sometimes I wish other people had my answers for me, but they don’t. Oh they might have loads of ideas, but it’s my job to know what’s best for me or what I want. Just like…

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