Gotta Start Somewhere

Here we are. If you are reading this post you have survived 2020 and no doubt you are looking forward to 2021 with optimism, hoping things look better in the new year than the one we just left behind. Between the pandemic and its collateral damage, the nastiness of the election season, the craziness of the holidays and everything in between, I think we can all agree it’s time to move on and move forward.

This is the time when people make New Year’s resolutions and promises to themselves. It’s a new year full of hope and optimism. A fresh start. Everyone is full of good intentions and motivation for a couple weeks, but like the saying goes “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Many of us will drop those new years resolutions like a heavy bag of hot potatoes once we return to the routine of normal life and start feeling ourselves pulled in different directions by all the things in life that demand our attention & distract us from what we really want to do if only we had more time….our kids, our aging parents, our jobs, (or insert your own reasons here.) Come February, there will be plenty of treadmills available at the gym and no more wait list for the spinning class. Then we will wander down the path of self loathing, beating ourselves up for not keeping said promises to ourselves. We will rationalize our feelings of failure and defeat. It was a lofty goal anyway & life just got in the way! Far too many of us fail to make our own goals and aspirations a priority. In fact, most of us don’t even really have goals in the true sense of the word because we are too scared to write them down or speak aloud of them with our friends and family, so really then, they are just ‘ideas” or “wishes” that we keep to ourselves.

Human nature sometimes allows us to get paralyzed by our own fear of doing something. Something we can see and visualize for ourselves but just can’t quite seem to make it happen. Something we want so bad we can taste it. We make excuses. We find other things to do to keep us busy, like taking on another volunteer opportunity, getting involved in another committee, obsessively scrubbing our floors, whatever it is, we subconsciously distract ourselves from doing the ONE THING we really want to do because we are secretly afraid of doing it. We perfect the art of procrastination and become olympic athletes in avoidance maneuvers. If you can relate, then follow along with me and let’s go through this journey together.

I am not speaking from a place of judgement. I am also one of those people who has been too afraid to really commit to my dreams and my goals. I’ve had lots of ideas over the years, some really good ones actually! But without writing them down, sharing them with others and taking action on them, they have just stayed there, in Idea Land….waiting to become a reality. I have not been fully utilizing my gifts and holding myself back too. “No more,” I say!

And that, my friends, is where this blog begins. With the promise to myself that I will begin working on my goals, my dreams, my ideas and become the writer I know I have in me. There’s a story in me that I know needs to come out. Heck, maybe it’s not even a story. Maybe it’s just a message, but I know one thing..if it’s on my heart as heavy as it is, it’s because God put it there and the only way to fully honor our Creator and the life he gave us is to manifest what it is he put us here on earth for. Whatever your belief system, if there’s something inside you telling you that you need to do something, then trust that it’s there for a reason & you owe it to yourself to make it happen!

So here goes. I am committing myself to using this blog to perfect my craft, express my creativity, my thoughts, my experiences, and hopefully & more importantly, to inspire others to do whatever it is they are holding themselves back from doing.  I believe we all have the power to manifest whatever dreams or ambitions are living inside us but sometimes we hold ourselves back. I no longer want to live like that. I want to share my words with others and raise other women up from where they aren to where they want to be. My message will not resonate with everyone and that’s okay. But for those of you who feel compelled to keep reading and following along, I welcome you into my world. It is about my journey. The journey from living in fear to living Fearlessly & Faithfully.  To living intentionally, bravely, boldly, purposefully, hopefully and freely! To creating the life I envision for myself and the life I deserve. The life I was put here to live.

Am I speaking to you yet? Are you feeling like you too have not been living up to the potential you have inside you? Do you feel like there’s something more waiting for you but you’re not quite there just yet? Are you afraid that time is running out and you may be too old to set new goals for yourself? Forget that! That’s a crap story you are telling yourself in your head! It’s time for you to flip the script and write your story the way you want it told!

I invite you to join me and see where this journey takes us. I won’t make you empty promises about what’s to come when I simply don’t know what the future holds. None of us do. But I can promise you it won’t be boring and we will grow together. So I ask you, what are you going to do today to begin living your life Fearlessly and Faithfully?