05/01/2025
Want to share more online this year but keep holding back?
This is for you 👇
I just started a book 📚 I received for Christmas—“If I Could Tell You One Thing” by Richard Reed — which offers a great perspective on sharing knowledge and experience
(thanks for secretly shipping a 🧦 stocking half way across the world 🤶)
Sometimes, I hesitate to share my thoughts online, worried it might come across as though I think I “know best.”
In reality, we all know a little about something.
And when we share, whether our ideas resonate or challenge, we create opportunities for reflection, growth, and connection.
In the intro, Reed shares a great metaphor:
🏔️ While growing up walking the Yorkshire Dales, he enjoyed contributing to cairns—small stone piles left by hikers to guide others.
He compares these to advice or wisdom:
“A simple, easy practice, both altruistic and self-preserving in its aim: to help others find their path, knowing that the next time the lost fell walker could be you.”
Words of advice, like cairns, can guide us when we’re stuck in life’s fog or boggy terrain.
They draw on collective wisdom and experience to point us toward safer, better paths.
And, while it’s important to be mindful of where the ‘advice’ is coming from, engaging with others, asking questions, seeking knowledge, and maintaining relentless curiosity about the lives of others can bring unexpected benefits to everyone involved.
In 2024, I focused on sharing personal thoughts on X, sharing over 1000 posts in 6 months, bringing me immense clarity, a newfound confidence in my voice, and opportunity, whilst based on feedback I received, nudging others positively in the journey.
This year, I’m committing to being more active here—adding stones to the collective cairn, hoping they’ll guide others, knowing I’ll benefit from the wisdom shared in return.
If you’re looking for more clarity, connection, and consistency in 2025:
⬇️ Consume less.
⬇️ Judge less.
⬇️ Doubt less.
⬆️ Create more.
⬆️ Share more.
⬆️ Engage more.
Here’s to contributing to a few cairnes this year.