Tell the Stories and Reject the Fear

When I restarted with this Vision board, I’d been inactive in blogging for over six months. I’d been inconsistent before that, but I seemed to have a purpose in what I did write. With this Vision Board project, I think I’ve been pretty consistent and it’s been relatively easy to write (which was the point). But I won’t be writing this vision series forever, and frankly it’d be boring if it was. If I do this Vision Board PROPERLY, that should make this newest goal work. This is about rejecting that fear I mentioned at the beginning – the one that my stories are boring and stupid and no one wants to read them. I AM a storyteller. I know how to tell stories and do so pretty naturally, but I can’t seem to find the courage to PLAN to do so without telling stories that aren’t mine.

This will be a very short goal to write. S – Specific. I will write a blog article at least once every other week. I’d like to say once a week because that’s what is apparently the standard but the other parts to this goal are stopping me. I guess I could make it a stretch goal but I won’t hold myself accountable except bi-weekly. M – Measurable. It will be a 1 – 2 minute read. A – Achievable. Well, that’s the reason I don’t commit to a weekly. I don’t know if I can or will overcome this fear when even more stories are necessary to share. R – Relevant. This is only relevant because I know I need creative in my life. My natural skills are the analytical ones. Those come so easy. But when I’ve had jobs that were almost exclusively analytical I NEEDED the creative, and this gives me something to further my writing skills and my storytelling skills. That’s relevant. T – Timely. I’m going to claim “done” on the starting as of June and will hold myself accountable through the end of the year.

Maybe with this practice, I can get back to writing my story that I posted the “first” part to late last year. That is a story from my head and it’s been there almost 20 years. I have to get this courage so I can finish it. So I will start with telling my stories and rejecting the fear that no one will care.?