How To Find Your Own Unique Voice

You won‘t find it by just thinking about it. You won‘t find it by consuming a lot of other people‘s content. You won’t find it by hiding your creations.

Here is how to find your voice:
You find it by using it. A lot.
You find it by creating. A lot.
You find it by writing every day. Or by taking a shit ton of photos or shooting and editing loads of videos. Or by making lots and lots of music. You find it by doing the very thing that you want to develop into YOUR thing.

You find it by ignoring perfection. You find it by experimenting and trying out loads of stuff and different ways of doing something.

You find it by taking the risk of making something bad - and making it anyway, because making something is better than not making something at all.

You also find your voice by putting yourself out there and receiving feedback. You find it by facing your fears of judgement.

It might take months and years, but you only develop confidence as you create and make stuff over and over and over again.

That‘s how I found my voice. And I keep rediscovering it and exploring it and doubting it and feeling insecure about it. And then I go out and use it some more, create more stuff, write more, make more videos - and there it is again.

Your voice is unique. 7.5 billion people and not one other human has your mind, your eyes and your voice.

Go use it.

(This is atomic essay #17, which is part of 30 Days of Writing #Ship30for30)