How do you best express yourself — and why do you choose this form?

Maybe it’s language and words. Speaking. Seminars. Presentations. Podcasting.

Writing a blog or a book.

Maybe it’s singing, using other people’s words and music to show what you feel.

Painting.

Dance.

Growing and caring for plants.

Designing interiors.

Building and renovating.

Editing other people’s writing into something stronger and clearer.

Teaching Yoga.

We each have a unique form of expression — a way of showing the world who we are and what we believe.

I AM. Two of the most powerful and personal words in any language. They demand completion. They demand honesty. You have the answer for yourself.

For years, as a singer and actor, I found it easier to express myself through other people’s words and lyrics. Someone else had already found the perfect form — and I could live inside it, make it mine, and deliver it truthfully. I loved that. There was freedom and immense happiness in it.

Then I found my own words. And everything changed as a book writer and a daily blogger.

Which brings me to the deeper question—the one beneath the obvious one:

What is your form?

Not what are you good at? Not what pays the bills. Not what others expect of you. But what is the thing through which you show the world who you are?

That question also has real Vintage weight, because your form of expression isn’t a hobby or a pastime. It’s testimony. Contribution that matters. It’s how a Sager says — clearly, defiantly, joyfully — “I’m still here. I still have something of value to give.”

The why is everything. It’s the change you want to make. For yourself. For others. For the world.

So I’ll ask you directly:

What is your form of expression? And what are you doing with it?

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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