I'm speechless...

Cru’s Letter

I’ll be honest…

Today is one of those newsletter writing days but I’m not sure I even have much to say. As a creative and “thinker,” I often feel this responsibility to always have to next thing to say that’s gonna revolutionize someone’s thinking.

A couple things on that:

• YOU know deep down what it takes to get to where you want to be

• The only way I can provide REAL insight to others is through shutting up every once in a while and listening to my own experience

I love to be the guy that says something in a way you’ve never heard but usually, that only serves as a reminder of what you already know. Along with that, I always hope for someone to hear what I have to say and make a real change because of it but I also want them to retain ownership of the change.

I tell this very thing to the people that I mentor:

“I’m here to be a resource to the change you want to make but I do not want your change to belong to me… you are the authority.”

This brings me back to my main point… I don’t have much to say right now.

Short form content has been harder to create lately, quietness has been very attractive, I don’t feel the need to explain myself as much. I think I’m starting to lean into a longing for observation. 

I remember back in school, I wasn’t the most talkative, I wasn’t a part of the big friend groups, I never got myself into drama, but I did learn SO much from being the 3rd person perspective of those things.

In recognizing this of myself, what I’m NOT gonna do is stop speaking my mind… that’s kinda my job lol. But what I am gonna do is grant myself the space to indulge in moments of saying nothing if I have nothing to say (this newsletter being a massive contradiction to that haha).

There’s a world of value in the quiet moments to → just think.

When I look back on the last few years of my life, I see that my speaking came from conviction instead of obligation and I want to make sure that remains.

I can’t think of anything else to write now…

-Cru

P.S. If you’d like to hear the real conviction… check out my youtube channel. It’s awesome.