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Hi All!
I’ve been considering (for weeks!) what I want the subject of my first email in a long time to be, and I haven’t been inspired to um… choose anything specific. (I love puns!) It’s been frustrating – to feel inspired to send out my first email in a really long time, only to be afflicted with writer’s block the second I turn my attention to it.
This morning, though, it occurred to me that I could just begin at the beginning, and move forward from there. It’s time for me to just start! It doesn’t matter in the slightest that I haven’t started before now. In fact, what if now is the perfect time to start? (Hello… Now IS the perfect time to start!)
So, this week I’m choosing to just get started already! I’m letting myself off the hook that tells me I should feel bad about not starting before now. I mean, really, how many people have actually missed these messages? My ego would like to think that they are actually important to others. Real life, though, says the opposite. The truth is that these emails are important to ME, for me to use the crafting of them as an opportunity to practice self-discipline and keeping my word to myself. Getting started again feels like the beginning of a brand new leap of faith. Juicy and alive! I love that feeling of juicy aliveness that is inherent in a leap, not sure what’s going to happen next, but knowing that I can handle it successfully. Just writing out those last few sentences has my mouth watering in anticipation of this new Grand Adventure!
But why fire up the “I Choose…” again? Because I vividly remember how it felt to send them out consistently AND to deliberately apply each weekly message in my own life. I also know that every email I send out, and/or post to my blog, will land in the lives of those who are meant to see it.
Have you been avoiding starting anything? Using excuses (like writer’s block) to protect yourself from what might happen if you DO start? What pattern of behavior is your avoidance go-to? Do you lose yourself in some tv show or movie? Do you talk yourself into getting a headache or not feeling well? Do you distract yourself with …cleaning the garage? …washing your car? …giving your dog a bath? …cleaning out the refrigerator? …defrosting the freezer? …checking the news? …doom-scrolling in some social media app? …cleaning the toilet? …cleaning someone else’s toilet? LOL
I love those kinds of questions. They make me pay attention to what I’m actually doing when I allow myself to get distracted and not even start – or get back to – something that my heart wants to either get done and get it off my plate (taxes anyone? filing the piles of paper on your desk?), or create and continue creating until it’s done (any written or video project, a painting or sketch that has been trying to get your attention lately). In the past I’ve been really good at starting things and never finishing them. In the past. “Yesterday” counts as “the past.” And so does thirty seconds ago.
I want that feeling of aliveness that comes with getting started on a new endeavor, and the principles I’ll be sharing each week will be what carries me into successfully landing on the other side of this leap. But it’s that “midair” feeling that I’m looking forward to, not the landing.
Care to join me? You are definitely invited, and please feel free to respond to this email/blog post if you have any questions, or if you have a win – big or small – that you’d like to share. I’d love to hear about all of it!
It’s great to be back! I’ll see you next Sunday! In the meantime, have a great week if you choose to.
Love,
Sandi
