📿 Faith in your faith

Book of TREE 2.22

Let’s say you’ve thrown yourself into a thing. Maybe it’s a religion. Maybe it’s a product. Maybe it’s an email you send every weekday morning.

Do you truly believe in it?

Here’s one way you can tell. Do you use manipulation or deception to promote/sell/share your thing? If you the answer is yes, you don’t believe in it.

You can use this test on other people’s things too. It works on anything from people on socials selling courses for things they barely understand up to presidents declaring martial law under the guise of protecting democracy. (How’s that working out, Mr Yoon?)

An example: Part of me wants to say that hundreds of people get TREE every day. That’s kind of factual if you half-close your eyes, tilt your head just the right way and don’t look too long. The actual truth is the FFOREST has 575 subscribers and around 170 people open each email.

I could juice my numbers to try and impress people into subscribing. But I know that one of the main reasons TREE has any value is that I write what I live. As soon as my writing separates from my real life, my integrity is gone and TREE becomes worthless. So I stick to the truth.

When you believe in your thing, you are free from the need to manipulate and lie.

One more thing. If you are part of an organisation does business using deception or manipulation, get out. You might believe what you’re doing, but the people in charge don’t.

Good energy here.

Stay rooted in reality
Jeff