Hello, it’s me.
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m pretty damn intimidated about writing the first post on this blog. And I’m amused, in a wry kind of way, to discover that. After all, if you take a quick look at the “About” page — go ahead, I’ll still be here when you get back — my whole point in creating this blog is to track my progress in becoming a better, bolder, braver version of myself and share it with other people who want to do the same thing. So how silly do I feel that I’m letting something like a little empty text box freak me out?
Admitting it is the first step, I guess. And putting my fingers on the keyboard and typing is the second. So.
I plan to spend a lot of time writing here about what I find challenging, intimidating, anxiety-producing, or just plain hard to get around to doing. With apologies to Eleanor Roosevelt, I don’t really believe I’m going to be doing something that scares me every day. Even if I define “scary” very loosely indeed, I’d run out of things to do in a hurry. So I’ll probably end up addressing the same topics many times over the next year, from lots of different angles. I’ll talk about what I’m doing, but I’ll also talk about why I found it scary in the first place, how I felt when I did it, and what I learned as a result. Some days, I’ll post instead about things I think are inspiring, entertaining, thought-provoking, useful, or otherwise good for wing-strengthening. Some days I’ll probably talk about photography or cats. And some days, when my biggest fear is that anyone who’s reading must think I’m the most pretentious prat on earth, I’ll try to come up with something dorky and fun.
I’m running as fast as I can toward the edge of that cliff. 1 – 2 – 3 … jump!
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Congratulations on your new adventure! I can’t wait to see where you go and what you do.
I’m bummed I wasn’t the first to leave a comment on your blog! But to be honest I probably would have been scared to do so!
I’m very excited to follow this blog.
And at least I can be *among* the first. Looking forward to confronting many fears with you in the months to come!
Having blogged for over 5 years in public… and then having taken down all that very exposing stuff when I recreated my persona on my internal corporate blog… and now missing that other side so much… I can tell you that blogging changed me in bizarre ways, and was as instrumental as bringing me to where I am today as anything I have experienced in my life. I unlearned all my business writing in the process and learned how to really be me.
Sounds intensely melodramatic, I’m sure… but do enjoy the journey. It’s a wondrous thing.