part two of what I've learned over the last 10 podcast episodes. Today, I want to do a brief explanation of the lesson of starting to listen to your still small voice. I'm assuming everyone's probably a little bit different when it comes to their still small voice. But mine generally starts with a feeling of dis-ease. Something just feels like it's off. Almost like I would have something in my shoe. It's not...
Very uncomfortable, I can tune it out if I needed to or wanted to. However, it just doesn't feel right. And when that starts to happen over too many days, or if I've ignored it for too long of a time frame, that's when things start... going worse in my life or things don't feel right and i get a general sense of disease that amplifies greater and greater and so what i've learned is i need to be still be quiet
Turn off all the distractions. Generally speaking, my distractions are tied around the cell phone, my son, work. the million to-do lists I have, whatever that might be. And I have to put all that aside and just sit quietly. Some people like to meditate during that time. Some people want to just sit still and see what bubbles up. I think the most important thing is to do what makes sense for you. And once I did that, that's when I realized I had put off making this podcast for almost a year.
i had everything set up i had all the things i needed in place ultimately i think i was using excuses of being busy to not get this message out and then when i realized that there was something bigger someone's message needed to go out it wasn't necessarily anything i had that was of interest that made my why big enough kind of shocked myself back into reality of what i needed to do and what i needed to take action on
For years when my still small voice would tell me something, I would fight it or I would ignore it altogether. Now I'm realizing that there's value in it. There's value in listening to what it has to say. thanking my still small voice for what is presenting because it's showing something that is not incongruence with my life and that's probably more important than whatever I'm going to do to distract myself anyway.
So now I try and thank my still small voice for investing and telling me something that I needed to do or some change that needed to be addressed. Most of the people that I've interviewed have had some similar experience. Maybe it wasn't something with their still small voice. Maybe it was something with their work. Maybe it was something with their life. Maybe they had children. Whatever ignited that change.
Their still small voice had to continually tell them, your life currently isn't working. This is not the design that we're supposed to have. And generally speaking, it seems to be tied around. what we have labeled as success in our early 20s, our early 30s, whatever that might be, typically purely financially based, et cetera. And then most importantly, you execute on what that still small voice bubbled up to you.
So it's one thing to hear it, and it's a whole other thing to actually execute and take action on it. I'm not saying it's going to be easy, because it won't be, because it's probably going to ask you to do something uncomfortable, otherwise you would have already...
done the action. So when that still small voice does tell you something and you hear it and you thank it for presenting that information, make sure that you execute on what that still small voice bubbles up for you. And in doing that with the podcast lately,
It's been very challenging for me because I will hear the messages that interviewers have presented, and I'll know that I'm not living according to how I should be living, even just based upon what my interviewers have presented as their facts or their truth.
And that's convicted me to make myself do things differently and to take action accordingly. Hopefully you're also able to start listening to your still small voice. See what it is. See how it starts off. Again, for myself, it's just a general feeling of dis-ease.
Be still, be quiet, get away from the distractions. When something bubbles up, thank your still small voice for letting you know that and then execute on what that still small voice provides for you. Hopefully you can go back and start listening through the catalog of all the different interviews.
to get something out of those individual people who have spent a lot of their time and energy sharing what they've learned along their path to success. Thank you for listening. If any of these episodes have been of value for yourself, please. Feel free to share them with someone else who might need them. Thank you.