Your voice can be recognised by your family, friends, and colleagues in what feels like a fraction of a second.  It’s your unique signature. 

So here’s a few things about voices.

We talk about finding your voice to mean identifying your unique and authentic contribution.  This is where we get the idea of vocation and calling from.

I can recognise your distinct voice from the things which you’re curious about, from the skills you hone, from your personal touch, and your approach to life, no matter what you’re doing.  It’s your life signature.

But what if you couldn’t recognise your own voice?

You may be trying to impersonate someone else, to “sound” like the person your parents or partner or employer wants you to be.

Hear of voice development?  Just like your speaking voice can be developed, so can your life-voice.  But if you don’t know your voice, you can’t develop it.

Finding our voices and developing them excite me a lot, but the third thing excites me even more.  When we find our voices, we help other to find theirs.  And that can change the world.

Someone once said, the world doesn’t need a second someone else, it needs the first you.

(*vo·ca·tion  (vō-kā′shən)