Can’t getting started just be the hardest thing? It becomes this big deal, doing something for the first time. Well it does for me anyway because of this innate desire to be perfect at everything instantly which is the most impossible thing ever. Hence why I never succeeded at playing an instrument, because that is something that you just can’t be good at straight away, it takes effort and perseverance!  I just end up procrastinating or in the case of this blog I begin writing about 5 blog posts and never finish any of them because of this doubt that just hangs over me that what I do will not be good enough. That is such a lie, but it can feel like the truth in the moment.

So I decided I just have to do it. Write something. I just have to face the risk that I might be a terrible writer and my blog might be a failure. But I’ll never know if I never try. And it might turn out ok or even good. And my writing may develop over time to become good even if isn’t now. I don’t want to live afraid and never attempt anything, thwarted by my fear of failure before I have even begun.

In a podcast I listened to about 6 months ago (which I won’t go into details about) but they said “Give yourself permission to be a beginner”. So that is what I shall do.