From the desk of Victor Pride
Subj: Open your mouth and say OWWWWWWW
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Many people say they want to become a professional blog artist, own their own business, make a ton of money, travel the world and live free…
If only they could find their own voice.
I say…
The only thing required of an artist is a voice.
How can you be a blog artist, or any kind of professional artist, if you cannot find your own voice?
If you do not possess a voice, what on earth makes you think you will make a living from your art?
Here's the answer: Nothing will happen for you if you do not have a voice.
If you lack a voice the only thing you will be able to do is use your ears to take orders.
Thankfully, it is VERY EASY! to find your own voice.
It is in the one place you are not looking.
If you cannot find your own voice it is because you are looking for it everywhere but in plain sight.
Here's an example…
Have you ever lost your car keys and looked for them for 15 minutes?
You looked everywhere you could think of, in the refrigerator, in the bathroom, under the bed, under the rug, you even looked on the ceiling.
When you finally find your car keys, where were they the whole time?
They were on the table right in front of your face the whole time.
You looked absolutely everywhere for the car keys, except for right in front of your face.
So how do you find your own voice?
If you cannot find your voice it is the same problem, you are looking absolutely everywhere but you are not looking at the obvious.
To find your voice, you'll do so many silly things like:
- Accept that you have a unique and special voice that is overflowing with possibilities.
- Regularly spend time in stillness and silence.
- Cultivate your ability to listen to the world around you.
- Tap into your passion overlap.
- Get really objective.
- After you’ve meditated for a few minutes, place your hand on your heart and ask: “Where am I holding back?”
- Find someone who really believes in you.
You'll do these things and they won't work, yet you still believe the answer is in doing more rather than doing less.
You still think the answer is in thinking bigger rather than thinking small.
You're still looking for the car keys in the toilet when they are on the table by the door the whole time.
You look everywhere except for the one place your voice actually is: hidden in plain sight.
Are you ready to stop doing stupid things and start doing things the only way they actually work?
Would you like to actually find your voice in the simplest way?
Are you ready to start looking at the obvious?
Ok, here is where you can find your voice…
YOUR VOICE IS IN YOUR MOUTH.
To find your voice, look in your mouth. It was there the whole time.
Open your mouth, use your voice, write the words your mouth says.
This is how you find your voice. It was never lost, you simply chose not to hear it or use it.
You can look in a million other places for your voice, but the only thing you will find elsewhere is nothing.
Like when you look for the car keys in the backyard when they were on the table by the front door the whole time, where they always are.
Your voice is in your mouth, it always was. It has never been lost, you are just not using it.
Your voice has already been developed and is waiting to be used, but you were too busy sitting in the backyard and meditating in silence, looking for something that was never lost.
Why are you making it so hard to find your voice when it is not even hiding from you?
Open your mouth and talk, do not be a shy little mouse.
Open your mouth and roar, your voice was never hidden from you in the first place.
Open your mouth and say OWWWWWWWWW!
Your voice was always there, waiting for you to take control.
Now that you know exactly where it is…
Until next time.
Your man,
-Victor Pride
Dylan Madden says
It is always the most obvious things that change your life. Instead, people go around filling their head with constant noise.
Like finding your voice, changing your life is just as simple.
Nyde says
Inspiring!
Here’s how i found my voice. True story.
I used to be a little bitch people took advantage of left and right.
Then one day i lost such a huge amount of money due to being a gullible bitch that i smashed my fist on the fucking table and told everyone in the room to go fuck themselves. I knew i changed. Even i was surprised. Since then nobody fucked me over.
NoJobNoProblem says
I always see these types of comments on having no voice from 18 year old young guns who want to be blog artists. Look kids, no one wants to listen to an 18 year old. Ever. Especially an unaccomplished one. How can you be that accomplished when you had to go to school two months ago.
Make the money first, get a body first, fuck a lot first, learn to fight, travel the world first, read a lot, learn everything you can and be open-minded. Truly open-minded, not some liberal or conservative “open-minded” non-sense like “everyone who doesn’t agree with me is an ignorant dummy”.
Then when you’re in your mid to late twenties, you’re killing it, then start a blog. I’m not trying to discourage you but most blogs never get off the ground because of lack of authentic content. This lack of authenticity comes from lack of experience. You need the experience FIRST and then write about it later.
And hell, maybe you will get to 25-26-27-28, and you’ll figure out you want to just keep killing it. You don’t have time for a blog. That’s fine. But at least now you’re killing it in life.
PJ Pires says
Amen.
Jason says
This guy gets it.
My biggest mistake was trying to blog/do business TOO SOON BEFORE HAVING EXPERIENCE.
That was 10 years ago. I’m 30 in January, own my own fitness business, and I’m getting back into writing online. Keep up the killer work as always, Vic!
christian bonilla says
I’m working on my action novel because back in high school I’ve realized that I can make shit up and turn it into a story.
So last year I started writing the basics such as the setting, the characters and story plot.
Now, I know that I’m a nobody and no one knows me on the internet. I’ve read articles including from this site on the importance of having a blog.
However, how do I promote myself as a writer through a blog if I don’t have significant experiences to share through a blog?
That’s what I’m stuck right now.
Tom says
You can’t find your voice because you have lost your voice.
When you were a child you knew what you liked, you knew what you were good at, you knew who you wanted to be when you grew up.
And then a decade plus of compulsory education and the crabs in the bucket of the workforce quietened the voice to silence. Or the odd whimper at best.
Speak what you know to be true. Write it down as clearly and concisely as you can. Do this and your voice will grow stronger. Practice. Soon, your voice will be a resource you can call upon at any time, a light that will both guide your way and be a beacon to others.
The voice wants to come out. You just have to let it.
Nyde says
It’s not possible to lose it. Nobody lost it.
Victor put it perfectly. It’s there. Just fucking use it. That’s all.
Hercules says
This is so damn true.
I’m currently in Russia completely broke living in a room with mould on the wall, cockroaches, a real bad heating system and water comes in when it rains. I eat dry bread with a can of cooked beans for lunch and dinner every day and I barely understand the language.
In the west I was bitching around about my car, my watch, all useless shit I bought and couldn’t figure out what I have to change in my life to get back on track. Now I left everything and I have a clear view of myself and all the stuff all my “problems” were never there it was all the time just me but I was full of BS and couldn’t see straight.
Like Victor said in Succes Rebel you know exactly what you want! I watched it years ago and I knew it was true but untill now I never experienced it because I let all this stuff and people around me controll my mind.
Derek says
True.
I recently read a book on famous writers’ techniques to starting their work.
There were no special secrets.
They would just sit themselves down and write whether they wanted to or not.
Just like opening their mouths…
Cheers,
D
Jose says
Great post Victor
Jim says
Just imagine if everyone was a blogger. Who would make the burgers?
christian bonilla says
Robots hahahaha
Newka says
Tryna make it.
Don’t get me wrong, every pro was once an amateur.
Here’s my blog, check out. My take on the art of blogging.
Anon1 says
Just seeing the link in this article and I think “The Magic of Thinking Small” may be the best article you’ve ever written Victor.
Very powerful and spoke to me deeply. I read and meditated on it for a few days and realised many of my ‘problems’ were just:
1) what-ifs that are never-happeneds
2) worries that people close to me imposed on me
Once you realise the best thing you can do for your loved ones is focus on taking your own direction, things become a lot easier.
Feels like a weight was lifted.