Here's a question worth sitting with: if you knew you couldn't fail, what would you allow yourself to say?
Most of what you've been carrying around stays unsaid for one reason — and it's not that it's wrong or reckless. It's that you've decided "people won't like it." The items are uncomfortable, not incorrect.
The room performs safety on your behalf
"That's not seemly." "People won't like you if you say that." "Keep that to yourself." You've heard all of these. They aren't arguments. They're the room performing safety for you — and you've been obeying.
A koan I keep close: be compassionate, but take no shit. Compassion for everyone who needs to hear what you have to say, and a total refusal to soften the thing they actually need to hear.
Take it further
Sit with the question for a minute: if you knew you couldn't fail, what would you finally say? Notice how much of the list is "uncomfortable," not "wrong."
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