Inner Voice

Inspired by Brett Ledbetter’s Building Your Inner Coach

When you’re alone, what does your inner coach, your inner voice say to you? Does it go to the shortcuts you tried taking, saying over and over again “I know what you did,” or does it go to a place of self-assurance knowing that what you hold to be morally important aligns with your actions – with what you chose to do and how you chose to do it?

How important is it to you to try your best to do what’s right? Are you doing what’s right because it’s the right thing to do, or are you doing what’s right out of the fear of the repercussions if you acted in a different manner? 

Are you just being too hard on yourself? “I mean, it really is something so small… and no one else will know!” But then why does it bother you so much, if it really is so small, so insignificant? Why do you find it harder to sleep? Why are you so stressed out… if it was really so small? 

Is there any difference between the small and the large? If you can’t trust yourself with something as insignificant as this, how could you possibly trust yourself when the stakes are that much higher – when it really is important. 

“If I got the result I wanted, what does it matter how I got it?” It’s hard to argue with that. Who can say they have the answers to that. If you got what you wanted, and you continually get what you want, how can you argue what you’re doing isn’t right? 

I don’t know… what does your inner voice say?

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“I don’t care about the result, as long as we have no regrets… as long as we leave it all out there.”