The World Needs Your Point Of View

Have you lost your voice? Not literally, but metaphorically speaking—do you follow the crowd? Are your ideas and efforts just trying to keep up with the norm and the competition? Do you feel like you’ve lost your voice in discussions? If so, I know how you feel.

I’ve worked for several Fortune 100 companies that encouraged everyone to have a voice, cultivated diverse perspectives, and expected innovation. But it’s not that easy. First, you need to find your voice—it may be buried under the influences and expectations you learned as a child. Society has conditioned a culture that places acceptance on the norm, and stepping outside of it often leads to rejection and criticism.

Even though I was fortunate to work for cutting-edge companies, I’ve also been in situations where I was expected to stick with the tried-and-true so my ideas didn’t cost the company any money. But businesses are fast approaching a time when that’s no longer sustainable. As the marketplace shifts, consumers dominate and no longer settle for traditional approaches. We need more voices—the world needs your point of view.

If you look at most great products, you’ll discover they were not influenced by the crowd or competition but took radical, risky shifts that changed us forever. Consider Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs—both followed their inner voice and expressed their unique viewpoints. What these entrepreneurs had in common was non-conformity, something that holds many of us back. They didn’t lose their voice; instead, they nurtured it. They believed in themselves and their ideas, refusing to conform when faced with opposition.

Celebrate Your Voice

Learn to find your point of view, celebrate your uniqueness, and be confident that you were given distinctive talents and strengths to make a difference. Each of us is rare, yet we often imitate others in life, business, and ideas, limiting how we think.

Want to walk your own path? Speak your truth? You will feel liberated, and your strengths will flow naturally when you begin to understand and embrace your true voice.

How Yoga Will Help

Yoga’s purpose is to recondition you by bringing you back to your authentic self and unique blueprint. It helps you uncover the brilliance that is already deeply embedded within you—your boundless creativity, possibilities, and wisdom. By connecting mind and body through weekly yoga practice, you will begin to shed layers of conformity and rediscover your true voice and viewpoints.

Bring Yoga to Your Workplace

Schedule Studio 9-to-5 to guide yoga classes at your company. Let us help you bring creativity back into your workplace and uncover raw talent, unique viewpoints, and new ideas.

By Myriah Frimanslund