Getting Started

How does one "get started"? I have never written a blog post. I have been on conference calls, webinars, and I even had a coaching appt. specifically about blogging. I purchased an online blogging class(which I haven't even looked at), and certainly talked about it enough. However, I have not blogged once . As I write this, I am both Iaughing at myself and lovingly asking myself, why not Debra?

I suppose I felt that if I was researching, writing endless scribbles, even entire scripts of my "would be" blogs, I was taking action. This is not to say that any or all of those things don't have tremendous value, but not one of them can do it for me. I must "get started"! All getting started really means to me, is that I show up and I tell the TRUTH!

I have been waiting until I am no longer afraid, until the chatter in my head miraculously vanishes forever. Ironically, if you asked me what my most favorite quote is, I would tell you "Courage is the willingness to be afraid, and act anyway" This quote encourages me to move forward regardless of any fear I may or may not have. I felt if I only knew everything there was to know, if I only attained the impossible, which is perfection, then I could escape the fear entirely. If I created some kind of genius blog, then I wouldn't experience any pain or rejection.

Rejection,real or imagined, is something I have always tried to avoid at all costs. The price can be pretty high for this kind of safety. It means I probably should stay in my room. It means I might not follow my heart. It means I might not live a full life, and Honor My Truth! This is not to say that rejection is always a given, but it is a risk that, until now, I have been unwilling to take. Now don't laugh,well have a good laugh on me if you want, what the heck,......I want everyone to like me. I now realize everyone is alot of people! Thank heavens we are all unique enough to make that impossible. The true solution is to accept myself.

This is funny because I just went from so totally safe that I don't write anything (except in the currently 7 spiral notebooks on my shelf behind me).....to totally putting myself out there. I decided to GET STARTED! It is what it is. Its all good.

This is what is true for me, true for me today, and that can change as I continue to change. As I let go, and Honor My Truth!

Debra Hadraba
Honor Your Truth
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