Greatness in your voice

There is greatness in your voice.

 

I can hear it.  You can feel it.  We know it.

 

If it quavers and shakes in fear:

let it be for the reasons we share with you.

Speak your truth with courage, and all your heart.

 

Inspire, then move us–with each word you expel, and each breath you spend.  We’ll catch our breaths, and then we’ll respire.

 

We’ll breathe as we move closer toward something worth every spirited breath of speech, story, and song before our lives expire.

 

But it ends not with neither your life nor ours.  Greatness flows over and through endeavors of legacy everlasting.

 

Free it with your voice and contribution to the world.

Let it ebb and flow from heart to heart: yours to mine, theirs to yours.

 

Call again!

 

Through sacred passage of wisdom in your call and listening–let your curiosity open the greatness of others, share your reliable truths, and always ask for the greatest of truth even when the only answer may be silence from your fellows.

 

The echoes of utterance will be great, and the world may quaver and shake in new movement as it awakens with the warmth of your voice for the reasons we share with you.

Share our Truth with courage and all hearts.

A dash of fun for professionals–the art of the exclamation point!

This month, I aspire to make professional jargon and buzzword*-filled language more human.  Yes, that’s an oxymoron in action.
[*as I noted before, there’s a difference between buzzwords and fuzzy concepts; professional jargon falls under that distinction too.   They can be one in the same if you, like I now and then, might be unfamiliar with them.]

I’ll say this: Few things freshen up professional jargon like superlatives and exclamation points make any upcoming meeting that much more exciting.

I recently finished the following:

“Ian Tran brings strategic planning, research, insight, and implementation experience for sustainable viability, brand, operational outreach and marketing in addition to a breadth of educational background to the team with a splash of spirit from the Great Lakes Bioregion!” (yes, I really wrote that for part of my professional bio: http://worldbycycle.com/team/ )

That bio was challenge for me to write–it almost spurred an existential crisis.  I had to present myself to both corporate professionals and educators/community based groups while embodying the spirit of adventure that we explore in presenting our work.

Try it at your own workplace!  Here are a few examples with exclamation points to get you started!

Coming soon as event invitations:

“Excellent ITS Customer Service Form Meeting!!!”

and

“Adventuresome ITS Potluck Meeting!”

What we communicate remains important, but sometimes the only thing gets through is the passion or character that that brings what we say together.  Until I’m comfortable with articulating information to all relevant audiences, I’ll lean on passion.

Onward!