30 - Verbalize

Full transcript here 👋 Hey, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. This is your life. This is your chance. Listen. The word for today is verbalize. What is it that you need right now? What’s something that you truly want? My wife asked me about a decade ago what my ideal job would be. At the time, I was working as an educational assistant, and I enjoyed going to the computer lab with the class I was helping. I told my wife I would like to run a computer lab as my next job. After that, a friend’s mom told me about a job teaching tech skills to people that are blind or have a vision impairment. I got the job, and part of it was running a small computer lab. Just recently, I told my wife that I didn’t have any comfortable sleeping positions, due to nerve inflammation. That night or the night after, I tried moving a pillow beside me, and I have slept so much better. Today’s concrete challenge is to verbalize your desires and needs. Now, I realize that the stories I’ve shared are purely anecdotes with no data to back them, but there’s very little to lose in verbalizing your desires. In fact, telling others about your needs increases odds that they’ll be met through the possibility of those people helping you meet them. Don’t keep it in today. Verbalize your wishes and ask someone else to tell you theirs. Let me know how it went at concrete.win/today. Check back tomorrow for a new challenge. Until then.