Moving in Silence

We are living in a day and age where everything we do has to be communicated or updated on any social media platform. From starting our own business, changing career paths, making a big move, getting married etc. This has delimited us from moving in silence and doing things in a confidential manner.

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“Don’t tell your goals to anyone except those directly involved. Announcing your plans to other satisfies your self-identity just enough that you are less motivated to do the hard work needed.

The concept of moving in silence is underlined in the premise that results speak louder than words. Branding oneself as hard working without having the blood and sweat put in is an easy portray regarded most suitable. However, most entrepreneurs who have built a successful business have always highlighted the need to always put investments, hard work and energy into one’s project before all thing else.

Why moving in silence?

1. Your ideas take time

More often than not you will have ideas that will change the course of how things are done, solutions to various problems etc. But this is the time where you will start building out your vision and what you would like to achieve. Thus, communicating your early baby out to the world leads to criticism and multiple unhealthy thoughts that will make you give up before even realizing anything.

2. Ideas can easily be stolen

Early stage ideas are vulnerable to be duplicated to fit other people’s contexts as well. You might be surprised how many people have had similar plans to solve certain problems and just lacked your idea of how to get there.

3. What move us forward are actions not words

Say you have figured everything you need to do moving forward. Announcing your plans and key next steps already now creates the feeling that you have already started doing them. Thus, instead of creating the path through actions your words take center stage. You might be surprised when you find your self six or seven months down the line without having done anything.

4. Labels come second

Attaining certain label or title on various platforms does not make you fully equipped to actually hold them. Skillsets, hard work and determinations are required to carry these. It is thus important to make sure you are well equipped before the world announces you as such.

Tyler Perry, one of the most successful man in show business, often highlights how his no network and visibility actually helped him to create his own path. The dearth of content for colored people drove him to quickly follow his dreams.

Moving in silence makes us invisible to the world, helping us be as creative and bold as we can be. It creates the opportunity for us to challenge the status quo and rise up when it is eventually disproved.

We all know it can be a bit challenging as our excitements takes over us and we focus more on letting the world know that we are not stuck. However, our visions and the changes we want to make should not be for the approval of the society but for our internal fulfillments which will be fueled through our achievements.