Don’t write your values down, write them to life
Finding calm in the chaos through reflection and consistent action
Your words matter. It’s the very ethos of my business, my work, and this blog. And it’s you that I need to thank for it.
However small or commonplace, however insignificant words may seem as they trip off the tongue, they make a difference. It’s something I forgot about my own words for quite a while.
Six weeks ago, I finally got round to setting up an email newsletter. Wrote the blogs, the emails, battled with Mailchimp. Persevered. And that’s exactly where my hero’s journey ends and yours begins.
Something amazing happened.
Conversation sprang up – in person, over text, by email, on the phone… Rather than finding the weekly posts a struggle, another item to hew from the to-do list, I was energised.
Thank you
I started this email series on not much more than a wing and a prayer. I’m chuffed to bits that you’ve stuck with me so far.
So why change things up? Why mess with a formula and shift to a new platform?
Because that’s exactly what writing allows us to do.
It takes us to new places and opens new avenues that we didn’t know we had a burning desire to explore. Writing provides clarity on what we already know; writing illuminates the inklings lurking in the cobwebbed corners of our brains.
Most of all, writing kicks holes in what simply doesn’t matter and lights a bonfire beneath what does. Six weeks of consistently writing these posts has made me pay attention to what I’m doing – to the words I’m putting out there. Writing hasn’t just started conversations, it’s made me live my values.
Writing isn’t static, and neither are our lives, our businesses, our marketing efforts... heaven knows there’s been evidence enough of that over the last few weeks. Writing our values down doesn’t make us apply them overnight. But when we write those values into being with our words and our actions, those values come to life.
I’ll leave you with a quote I discovered yesterday:
‘When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.’
- Rumi, thirteenth-century poet and scholar
What can you do from your soul? What moves your ideas and your inklings forwards, like a river, into action?
I invite you to write – write as little or as much as you can, as often as you can spare the ink. Whatever you do, look after yourselves and the people around you, and enjoy writing your values to life.
Your words matter,
Laura