It’s the desire to make this post perfect knowing full well almost nobody is going to read it. ☠️
Anyway, I decided to clean up this space a bit and really enjoyed reading this and this. But it got me thinking, “What stops me from writing like that?”
The answer to that: Fear.
Fear of judgement. Fear of being vulnerable. Fear of being and doing something insignificant. Fear of… (Yay! ✨overthinking✨)
But Lauren (an INFJ who writes an amazing newsletter) said in one of those letters:
All you need is the willingness to be scared, and to keep moving.
Said differently:
“A key secret to success in personal pursuits is the willingness to be scared—being terrified even—yet doing it anyway.”
I mean, YES, no one suddenly overthrows fear. It’s programmed into all of us and the only way to fight it is to, well, do the [bleep] thing!
So here I am; doing the [bleep] thing. ☠️ (Emphasis is sometimes needed, okay.)
Okay, so. What exactly do I hope to “blog” about/on?
Well, like I mentioned here, primarily I think I want to get comfortable with sharing my thoughts and insights on things I learn/consume as they are a manifestation of how and how much I’ve grown in my thinking and understanding of things. From thoughts on articles I read that proved to be quite interesting…
(Pause. Footnote. I have a fairly uninteresting life, so you—if “you” exist—shouldn’t expect epistles about some wild thing that happened someday somewhere. Play.)
…to videos, podcast episodes—you name it—that I think could benefit some soul on planet earth (’m pretty sure my homies on mars won’t mind).
(This is totally not me supressing the urge to write about everything that has happened in the past 3 weeks.)
Alright, say it with me: “This is a chill space (I don’t think it is ☠️). People’s opinions about me do not reflect who I am nor do they dictate reality”
(That’s an awful lot of asides.)
Shall we begin? 🫴
(Of course I didn’t rewrite this 10 times. Of course not.)
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