Speak Listen Act

Speak by mentatdgt

Talk, listen and act are phenomenal creations. Each needs to be given its due time and focus, to be able to make good use of them. These features and functions can lift your image, boost your reputation and bring you to successes. These same features can take you to ruins.

Lets discuss three places where we can polish these skills to our advantage;

1. Speak at a vulnerable place

2. Listen to the pain triggering critique

3. Act to prove above two places wrong

1 👉 Speak at a vulnerable place

Vulnerable by Energepic

It is not fun, speak to your fullest, not fun. Life is boring and tasteless, if you are not giving it the sprinkle of vulnerability. Playing safe and acting sober only dulls life’s color. Playing hardcore, jumping blind and acting brave are extremely needed factors to make your life boring-less and taste-full.

The best way to take this jump is a stage, where one slip of tongue, some broken sentences and badly prepared presentation is a direct attack on your hard earned reputation. It will take you down in artificial rankings of good ratings and trustworthiness. But it will bring you higher in your real life experiences that you will be banking on later in your life.

Speak, I can’t emphasise on it enough, on stage. Off stage. In gatherings. Make yourself vulnerable of getting attacked and ridiculed. It lets people make fun of you. Destroys your ego and unveils the real you, out to people around you.

2 👉 Listen to the pain triggering critique

Listen by Jonas Mohamadi

Next step, after every talk, is a chain of critiques, suggestions and opinions. It is needed to trigger your pain points and train you harder, more than improving your talks.

Before you open your ears and start listening, reassure yourself of a strong “belief in yourself”. Without this belief, you wont survive the listening part. You might get crushed and left in shambles. You might go down the road of “giving up”. Negativity might over run you. You might fail, if you will fail at “believing in yourself”.

Open your ears. Take the suggestions. Embrace the criticism. Hug your haters. Go down with humility. Let your body take its toll. Fall like you wont get back up. Break like you start doubting all of your life’s efforts. Fail, fall and shed tears. Without failing every day, you can not succeed one day.

3 👉 Act to prove above two places wrong

Hard work by Andrea Piacquadio

This part, where you act, is more important than the previous two. You can not reach the phase of “act” until there is a push. Once you have put your life, reputation and earnings at stake, there is nothing stopping you from taking “actions”. The first 2 phases of speaking boldly and falling bravely, takes you to acting strongly.

Did you feel “lazyness” in the morning, today? Did you feel like “not getting up - today it is Sunday”? Do you feel tomorrow’s “Monday” is going to be tough?

The sole answer to these questions is “you did not put anything at stake yesterday”. You will not be held accountable for lack of taking actions today, because you did not tell people, of your goals and commitments. You failed at running to your goal yesterday, and today you failed at taking the “actions” to move towards your goals. Lazy-ness, boredom and heavy-ness overtook you. You got defeated.

The “actions” are important if you want to achieve your goals. Actions needs commitment. You need to publicly commit yourself to taking actions everyday. You need to take the criticism and hits to find motivation to beat the world. You, only you, need to take responsibility of your life, to live your life to its fullest.

Conclusion

Insane by Ady April

Stop being logical. Stop acting sane. Stop thinking. Start acting. Start speaking. Start failing. Lose all of your earnings. If you won’t jump into fire today, you won’t succeed. If you will not think insane, you will not fall. If you won’t take the hits, you won’t act. If you won’t act yesterday, you won’t get up today. Act sooner. You have to make this world look towards Kaaba and honor it. You have to lead people to Jerusalem, to conquer it. You have to raise the slogans of Allah, to embrace it, the death. No one else, but you, you have to stand under hoz-e-koser, beside your Prophet. You have to take shelter under mercy of Allah on judgement day. Only you, have to cross the bridge to get into gardens of green fields, beautiful trees and endless streams. Wake up, today, on Sunday, that you act on Monday.