No B.S Friday: The secret to my writing style
Ok, so just a quick note because I’m gearing up for Easter and getting away.
By the time you get this message, I’ll be tearing up the road, top down on the convertible, seasonal showers be damned.
But someone asked me the other day if I have someone in mind when I write.
I have a personal style of writing. That comes when you have someone in mind that you’re writing for. It’s what gives it its directness and character.
But I do. I am thinking of someone. I’m thinking of myself.
Specifically, I’m thinking of that younger version of myself that had to go through and learn all this stuff from first principles.
I wasn’t born into wealth. Nobody sat me on their knee when I was five and said, “Listen Jon, this is how the world of money works. This is how you make money. This is how you protect wealth. Now, here’s a million dollars why don’t you run off and buy yourself a coal mine or something?”
No. I had to start from scratch.
And that meant learning how our financial systems operate.
But it also meant over-turning my inherited money-scripts. And it meant overturning feelings of inadequacy and feeling like I was an imposter. And it meant overturning the habits that were holding me back from success.
It was a big story, now that I look back on it.
But what I knew then and I what I knew now is that I always had that potential within me. I knew – somehow I just knew – that I could do it.
I just needed to unlock that potential.
And that’s what drives these blogs – when I imagine who I’m writing for, I’m imagining someone with potential that just needs unlocking.
(And really, isn’t’ that everybody.)
And what I’m trying to do is just speak to that potential within you. I fully believe that with just a few tweaks here and there, you’re potential will come gushing forth like water from a fire hydrant.
And I guess I kinda believe that even if the advice I offer isn’t 100% relevant to where you’re at right now, your potential will still hear the call – it will still hear an invitation.
And that might be all you need.
So that’s who I’m writing for. I’m writing for the potential that lay dormant within me, and that now lies dormant in the next generation coming through.
It’s there.
All it needs is a call.
Happy Easter folks.
JG.