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Tuesday July 5, 2016

Do you and those around you (friends, family, colleagues, direct-reports) speak freely, with your own voice, or ‘what is expected’?  Or, what you expect is expected …

Voice.

Everybody has one.

Or only think they do?

Be yourself. Find that voice, however hard it might be, and you’ll never be ‘what people expect’ again. Be free. Own your voice.

You are the only one with that right.

Right?

 

written / published from Calgary, AB

morning walk with Gusta:  9C/49F, clear, breezy/damp/chill, middle of the night walk – morning light is like an isosceles triangle on the horizon, Gusta found the most dimly lit place to poop (thank goodness for cell-phone light), I bagged, we walked in silence with barely a sound of traffic in the distance, and the city wakes, repeats, another day …

Reader feedback:

CHOOSE NOW

It is always our choice, GB, Waukesha, WI  


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