You have a core message burning inside of you, and it is a powerful influence when released. Through two simple steps, you can identify your message and gain the confidence to release it.  

Each of us has a core message burning inside—we just may not know it yet. 

Your core message is the one that you go back to over and over again. It is what you are all about and is usually developed from your values, passions, and life experiences. 

It can be challenging to identify your core message—especially because it is often buried deep within you. But as a person of influence in your individual sphere, it is essential that you identify your message (or messages) and refine it.  

Each of us has a voice that needs to be heard, and something to give to the world. If you do not contribute your part, something important is missing from the lives of those you lead. 

As you discover your core message and gain confidence in your voice to speak that message, people will listen to you when they hear your heart.

Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of State, is a great example of someone who found her message and her voice. 

Although a prominent representative of the United States, she was often one of the few women in the room, if not the only one. Yet, she refused to be silent. She realized that if she did not take the opportunity to speak, the voice of the United States would not be heard. 

One of her key messages while in office was the need to raise up women into governmental positions around the world. She believed that when men and women worked through problems together, they were better understood, and the solutions had a more well-rounded perspective.

How do you unearth your core message and find your voice so that it can be released? 

Here are two keys I learned during a writer’s workshop I co-hosted with Dr. Kynan Bridges. 

While teaching on discovering what is burning in your heart—your core message—Dr. Bridges gave us a two-part assignment:

1) List 5 of the strongest areas you are passionate about.

2) List 5 of the strongest areas you wish you could change.

After making my list, I was surprised that most of my items were the inverse of the other. For example, one subject I am passionate about is wholeness in marriage and relationships. Divorce and brokenness were on my list of things I wish I could change.

This passion came from a life experience. My parents were divorced after twenty-three years of marriage. While it was not a complete shock, I did question at the time whether being married forever was really possible. 

From that experience, I developed a passion to help others work through challenges in their marriages, family situations, and relationships.

My husband and I have been married for thirty-eight years. Different situations have challenged our relationship, but the one thing that has kept us bonded is the power of choice. We choose each other. 

This creates only one option for us: work it out.

This does not mean that everything is perfect. We moved fourteen times (yes, fourteen!) within twenty years of our marriage. One of those times, the moving truck sat fully packed in a parking lot while we waited for the final credit approval to move into our rental house. My husband, our kids, and my mother were with the moving truck, and I was at work. 

For two hours, my husband kept calling as he worked through the hold up with our credit, which made my boss angry. But we chose each other and stood together. 

No matter what the issues were in our thirty-eight years—kids, jobs, moving, money—we chose each other in every situation, and every day. 

If you want to identify your core message and find your voice to release it, here is my challenge for you. 

Set aside some time today and go through these two steps:

This simple exercise will go a long way in helping you unearth the core message, or even messages, inside of you. 

Here is an additional perspective on releasing your message: 

Madeleine Albright had a “silent voice” that became part of her apparel. It started when she went to the UN after the Gulf War and Saddam Hussein compared her in the papers to an “unparalleled serpent.” 

She happened to have a snake pin, and she wore it the next day as they discussed Iraq.

Madeleine Albright became famous for selecting a pin that reflected what was going to happen that day. It was a preview of her message, and her signature in voicing her position loud and clear. 

When I saw her being interviewed, she was wearing a pin she deemed “breaking the glass ceiling.”

My favorite story of her pins was when Russia had planted a bug in the conference room near her office. The next time she met with Russia, she wore a giant bug pin. 

Like Madeleine Albright, you can bring your unique personality and perspective to the people you lead, but it starts with identifying, embracing, and refining your core message—what you are all about. 

I would love to hear the results of your two-step assignment. Leave me a comment on my Facebook page or send me an email at cindy@cindy-stewart.com. 

Another one of my passions is helping people identify and refine their message and walking with them on the journey to finding their voice. 

If you want individual help through this process, fill out the Connection Form and let’s start the conversation. 

Remember, you are the best investment you can make.

If you want to invest in your future, find your passion AND the why behind it, sign up for my 6-week online course, Compelled to Change. 

In this class, you will learn practical and repeatable strategies to accomplish your dreams and be unstoppable! 

Learn more here.

Abundant Blessings, Cindy 

Cindy Stewart has a passion for people and helping them connect to their life purpose, discover their passions, and live their dreams. Cindy’s latest book, God’s Dream for Your Life, brings clarity to your purpose while unlocking vision of what is possible in the natural and the supernatural. She is an itinerant speaker, an executive coach, and hosts a weekly podcast on Charisma Podcast Network.  Along with her husband, Chuck, they lead The Gathering Apostolic Center in Tarpon Springs, FL. 

Please email Cindy with any questions or comments to cindystewartauthor@gmail.com. She’d love to hear from you.

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