Trust Me

I awakened this morning from a dream with the following words being said:

“Trust me has seven letters in it.”

I immediately got up to write my morning pages.

Trust has been an issue that has surfaced lately in my morning pages, more accurately self trust has been the issue.

Trusting oneself is probably the hardest thing a Present Day Nomad will have to learn, if it is not already a part of his or her psyche.

We live in a society in which we have been taught and encouraged not to trust our innate self, to give into to social demands whenever there is a conflict between what the inner self says and what the society tells us to do.

But all successful people, and all entrepreneurs will tell us that self-trust is the key to success, when it comes to choosing between what you think and feel, and what the societal norms dictate.

I have been struggling with my own self-trust issues when writing for the blog and that is why I have not made a post in a while, but I knew that this will be the post this morning as soon as I awoke from my dream. I did hesitate before starting the post, but eventually gave into my inner knowing, or I should say decided to trust myself with it.

I have been reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s book Crush it! and going to write a review of it on Monday with a surprise for my readers. One of  the things that Gary says about blogging is to choose your media to match your DNA, and I have been giving it a lot of thought.

While I know, and have been told, that I write well and communicate effectively in written form, it is not the most effective way for me to communicate. I don’t like to sit and write. I can’t don’t type very well or very fast and it is a chore for me write. As such I don’t get around to making the posts I want to when I am inspired to do so, and I miss out on communicating a lot of things that I am eager to communicate, things that I am passionate about.

My choice of media, when communicating, is public speaking, or audio format. When I speak in front of a group, I am not usually very animated or high energy as Gary is. I am very relaxed and laid back. So audio is the best match for my DNA. I am going to be experimenting with doing some audio and video posts soon, in addition to the usual written posts to see how my audience responds to it and how I feel about it myself.

So, while I have decided to follow my instincts, or rather my intuition, on this, I will be relying on you to provide me effective feedback as well. But I know, that in the end I am going to go with what gives me the most pleasure, because if I don’t enjoy communicating, you won’t enjoy the message either.

Trust Me!