Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Off with the old (LoveMakeThink) and on with the new – presenting myself behind my own name – this is important to me.
I haven’t written a blog post in a really long time.
For a long time I have felt like it wasn’t worth it and I lost faith in my convictions/confidence in my voice and opinion. I got afraid.
Fear can really hold you back.
I’m tired of being fearful.
Fear of failing is failing. It gets in your head and tells you not to bother, that what you’re doing it crap anyway. It gnaws away at you.
Fearing other people’s opinions is counter productive. People think about you far far less than you think, and they don’t really care about what you think/believe/do and there will always be those that go out of their way to be negative.
If you worry about offending people, you will never do anything. I know this – I have lived this.
Poisonous people exist (tough) and will only hurt you if you let them (so deal with it).
I’m starting to sound like Oprah. Enough.
When I think about when things have gone well with me, the writing has has helped enormously – OK of course sometimes I got a bit too involved, but I think the positives way way way out weigh the negative. So I’m making the small first step.
Let’s start.
Begin again, again.