🐛 TREE 251: Faith in yourself

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Bob Strecht, husband, father, cycling enthusiast

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There are many voices – some come at you with great authority, some come from inside your head – telling you who you should be, how you should change, why you are not good enough.

For right now, listen to a different voice: mine.

But only because I’m agreeing with your own insistent, true voice that says, Who you are at your core is exactly who you should be. You evolved/were created to be part of this planet at this time. You have a one-of-a-kind mix of body, personality, preferences and talents.

It’s good to be you.

Here’s why you need faith. Some days it doesn’t feel good to be you. Some days no one is saying that it’s good to be you. Some days those voices telling you to be someone else are overpoweringly loud.

You may have a lot of accumulated not-you that needs to be stripped away – stuff that hides the good-to-be-you from view. Getting rid of the accumulation takes work. It’s like clearing out a fatberg from a London sewer. Faith is believing what’s true even when the truth is invisible.

What’s true is it’s very good to be you.

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If you didn’t catch it on the socials over the weekend, please take a couple more minutes to read Consider a tree. It’s related and it’s why I you this email every day.

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Asteroids Galaxy Tour make the kind of music that it seems like Paloma Faith should make. (This whole album is pure fun.)

Welcome to faith week!

Grow slowly
Jeff