Find The Courage To Speak Up

Recently, I spoke at an investing conference.

I'm not an investor and know very little about it.

I was asked to speak about something I believe in.

I couldn't speak about investing in Boeing in China or the geopolitical situation in Ukraine and how that affects investment.

I couldn't speak about investing in art,nor could I say anything about designing and planning urban spaces.

So, by the time my turn came to speak, I had realised that I was invited to the conference, for much the same reason that one adds spices to soup.

I wasn't the soup, but  an exotic ingredient.

And there were two choices.

Well, really, only one.

Just to pull myself together and speak about what I wanted to speak about.

‘How to cultivate excellence in your emotional life’.

But this wasn't the real topic.

It was a coded topic.

The real topic behind the code was:

How to live from the space of the heart and not the mind. (I sat in the rice fields and made a video on this as well).  

I won't reiterate the whole speech as you can watch me talking about it here.


Essentially, I asked people to stop. Stop thinking about money and business. And look into their hearts.

(Money is fine. But it flows better, if it's from the heart).

I asked them to look into their hearts with brutal honesty and ask themselves where they were at in life.

So, then I did speak about emotions, excellence, truth and being yourself; I spoke about Bali, and flow of money, and flow of life. I might have even mentioned dying.

I was probably the crazy person there.

But everybody listened.

It was the truth.

My truth.

I stood up for it.

I spoke it.

Even if I was nervous, even if I was out of context.

I shared it.

What did it teach me?

People might not always like you or agree with you, people might not always be ready to listen, but they always (or, at least, often) will admire and respect you for speaking your truth.

People sense truth.

People sense flow.

And even if they don't ‘buy’ your truth, your courage to speak your truth ignites their courage to speak theirs.

Wherever you are, speak your truth.

Or better: be it, live it, radiate it.

But for that you have to know yourself and know your truth .

How do you do that?

Here is how: https://www.dariuslukas.academy/p/hero-journey-circle

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