I was listening to Brad Katsuyama on CBC radio. He stated something to the effect that we have more control of the outcome if we take a step towards making a change then if we sit back and hope that another person steps forward to make a change. If you want to hear someone with characteristics of a leader, I suggest listening to this interview.
Starting this blog was me taking a step forward and making a change in my life. I'm not all too sure where this will all go. But it feels so good that I'm reaching for my dreams one post at a time. I think I was so afraid to start because I was afraid to fail. Sir Ken Robinson in a TED talk states, "if you we are not prepared to be wrong, then we'll never come up with something original". I've been frightened of being wrong/doing wrong with my creative adventures and that thought was putting up a barrier to me trying.
I took part in an interview at the start of the week. I've been stewing on my answers all week. All I wanted to do was move forward (mentally) but my brain just kept sucking me in, replaying all the things I said and inserting things I should have added or different examples I should have talked about.
Sometimes when I get stuck in thinking about the past and all those things I want to change, I tell myself to "stop" and sometimes I even just blurt out my cat's name to break up my thoughts. I know one of my strengths is that I am reflective but sometimes I want to take a break from that. Picture a rectangle drawn with dashes. I'm trying to push myself outside those dashes so that I can experience something new!
Here's an excerpt of lyrics from City and Colour Sleeping Sickness song.
And I'm afraid
To sleep because of what haunts me
Such as living with the uncertainty
That I'll never find the words to say
Which would completely explain
Just how I'm breaking down
Starting this blog was me taking a step forward and making a change in my life. I'm not all too sure where this will all go. But it feels so good that I'm reaching for my dreams one post at a time. I think I was so afraid to start because I was afraid to fail. Sir Ken Robinson in a TED talk states, "if you we are not prepared to be wrong, then we'll never come up with something original". I've been frightened of being wrong/doing wrong with my creative adventures and that thought was putting up a barrier to me trying.
I took part in an interview at the start of the week. I've been stewing on my answers all week. All I wanted to do was move forward (mentally) but my brain just kept sucking me in, replaying all the things I said and inserting things I should have added or different examples I should have talked about.
Sometimes when I get stuck in thinking about the past and all those things I want to change, I tell myself to "stop" and sometimes I even just blurt out my cat's name to break up my thoughts. I know one of my strengths is that I am reflective but sometimes I want to take a break from that. Picture a rectangle drawn with dashes. I'm trying to push myself outside those dashes so that I can experience something new!
Here's an excerpt of lyrics from City and Colour Sleeping Sickness song.
And I'm afraid
To sleep because of what haunts me
Such as living with the uncertainty
That I'll never find the words to say
Which would completely explain
Just how I'm breaking down
...I teeter between feeling the pain of the world as I see, hear and frighteningly imagine it and the world where everything is rosy and peachy...
and balloons holding dreams float in a sky that cradles them.
and balloons holding dreams float in a sky that cradles them.