3 Simple Tips to Finding Your Voice
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Anyone that has created content, written or spoken, understands the challenge it can become finding your own voice. In other words, being yourself. However, when you begin, your confidence isn't there and you usually find that you imitate those you admire. What can be embarrassing is when someone recognizes who your trying to imitate and let's you know.
Here are a few things have helped me in producing content using my own voice.
1. Practice makes perfect: The only way you'll find your voice is to continue to write, speak, act etc. The more you produce the more comfortable you'll become in who you are. Experiment until you find what comes natural for you.
2. Know your subject: Many times the reason why we don't produce with originality is because we're uncertain of our subject. A lot of times you can save yourself some embarrassment by waiting until your subject is a part of you versus something you just parrot.
3. Inspiration not Imitation: Find your inspiration from your influencers. I've have a group of individuals that I deeply admire. I study there determination, their habits, and their influencers. I feed off of their success, but only as a means of inspiration.
When you find your voice producing content will seem so much easier. Blog or pod fading will become less a reality in your future.
What have you've done to find your own voice? What has been your biggest challenge? Leave a comment and become part of the conversation.
It's a recognizable and complex subject to say the least. Finding your voice can be a struggle. Funnily , once you've found your voice, it's hard to keep holding on to it sometimes.
I find keeping the voice consistent a challenge at times because the more things happen that are exiting, the more one tends to adapt to the situation and thus ends up loosing personality ...
It's a part of being a perfectionist ...
Lex G
Posted by: Lex G | February 20, 2008 at 08:44 PM