Getting Inspired
Musings—Jan 04, 2010
“To blog or not to blog” has been the question whirling around inside my head for the last number of months. I wasn’t even sure that I really wanted to write a blog. So I decided I better do some learning about blogs so that I could make a well-informed decision before I leapt into this new world of blogging….or before I ‘turned the other way’ and didn’t do it.
During the last few months I’ve read blogs, about blogging, and about the people who do blogging. Needless to say you can tell from this very first blog post what my decision was. I took a leap into the blogosphere!
In my work with clients there are two things that I noticed kept popping up for many of them. Too many opportunities to procrastinate, and too few opportunities when they felt inspired. And so it was with me and starting this blog. I felt like I was procrastinating, and I felt like I wasn’t inspired enough …..yet. What was I waiting for…I don’t know.
So in mid December 2009 I put on my calendar for January 4th, 2010 that I would begin my blog. To further cement my commitment, I dutifully wrote it on my To Do list for that day as well. And if committing that notation in pen (instead of my usual pencil) wasn’t enough to ensure I did it, I also put a big * beside it, and a big circled ‘A’ as well to emphasize that it was a top priority item and very important to do TODAY, not the next day or the next week.
So there you have it. A professional organizer’s own personal struggle with procrastination and wanting inspiration to tackle a goal, a dream, a project.
Of course the doubts continued in my head even after I wrote “Start Blog” on that January 4th To Do list. Who would read my blog? What would I write about? What if no one read it…no one ‘followed’ me? What if…..? and on and on it went inside my head. And it wasn’t long before insecurities surfaced (thank heavens we all have insecurities!!) and I began to doubt that I had anything really worthwhile to write about in a blog.
And just as the saying goes “when the student is ready the teacher will appear”. Over this past weekend I was reading the book Inspiration by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. As I was nearing the end of the book I had a deep knowing not only about my life’s work, but about my blog too. I want all my work at Space to Thrive (which now includes a blog) to inspire people to make the changes in their lives that they’ve wanted to make for a long time, but perhaps weren’t quite ready to do it. I’m not talking about change just for the sake of change, but the kind of deep change that so many of us crave and wish for.
And it is only as I found a place for that book on my bookshelf that I really knew what I wanted for my blog, and for all those who chose to read my blog.
These are the promises I make to you, the reader, about my blog.
I will speak my truth, I will be authentic.
I will write to you as I would a friend, and as if you were right here beside me.
I will share whatever I am able to – not to convince you of something, but in the hopes that perhaps that the words I write might inspire you in some way to make the changes you’d like to make in your life.
So here I go on this wonderful adventure called blogging.
