Speak Less

Speak Less by Laura Kimball

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know I. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I once received a fortune cookie that read: “Speak less of your plans, you’ll get more done.” What’s one project that you’ve been sitting on and thinking about but haven’t made progress on? What’s stopping you? What would happen if you actually went for it and did it?

(Author: Laura Kimball)

Right now, it's finally getting the brochure and the sign done for my business. I've been talking about it for so long, it's taken on a mythology all its own. It's almost done. I finally printed the flyer for the summer programs. Who knows what will happen? Perhaps nobody will sign up. But at least I have stopped talking about it and have finally done it. Little steps. No words. Just little steps. It's good to take them. Talking too much takes too much energy and it's so that I can hear myself say it to other people, and so I can see them nod and so I can exaggerate what they think of my idea when they hear it. I'm tired of that. I really am.