The Enemy (Voice)

It’s the enemy.
The negative to your positive.
The resistance to your momentum.
The discouragement to your drive.
The sabotage to your call, your purpose, your dream.

We all have it: that voice in our head that whispers the exact thing that always works to cause a hiccup, a doubt, a stumble in your progress. Just when your cylinders are firing and things are clicking, it says (for the thousandth time), “Why would anyone care about that?”

I’m going to call this the enemy voice. It’s a voice, no doubt. You hear it. I hear it. We all hear it. And it’s the enemy to the thing that you are certain you ought to be doing.

For you it might be coaching youth football.
Maybe it's writing a book or taking up cello.
Perhaps it’s a radical career change.

It doesn’t matter. The enemy voice doesn’t care. It’s out to sabotage whatever it is that you ought to be doing.

I want to do something new. It’s for people like us. People that have (or are hearing) the call. People that are unwilling to continue with the way things are. But it’s also for people that hear the enemy voice every morning. Every afternoon. Almost every hour.

I’m willing to take five days and try to capture what the enemy voice is saying to me, and then on Sunday gather them all in one place. It’ll be like a scouting report for that darn voice that won’t stop disrupting our flow, our drive, our will to change.

It’s time. Time to get up close and expose the enemy voice’s game plan and tactics.