Commitment always wins

Aaaah! I did it! I’m doing it. I’m here showing up and shipping each and every day. Sometimes I write something from scratch. Sometimes I am going to my treasure box of years of journals. Sometimes I look in my phone notes app or my email inbox or my desktop where I have folders of writing. Here are three things I’ve learned in these 2 weeks of blogging:

1- Commitment always beats perfectionism

Perfectionism has no chance when my commitment is so big. I am here to show up every single day. Whether it’s a long new post or a late night dictated from my bed as I’m about to go to sleep. The answer is yes, it’s always enough. I could stop and write the perfect post once a month or I could show up every single day. Here I am. Commitment wins. There will always be things I want to improve. Right now, that little improving voice can wait because you know what? Mama’s busy shipping. You can talk to me after I ship. 

2- Sharing reminds me who I am

This commitment to share daily has me deeply connected to Me. There are moments when I feel like I have nothing to say. Then I check one of my resources - a journal, a harddrive, a notes app and I find soooo much there. So very much. It’s so inspiring. I am feeling so connected to who I am and my Creativity. Little signs are appearing all around me: a mom at school asking me would I consider teaching a writing workshop. Two separate other instances of moms telling me about writers groups. When I show up as Me the world responds. It’s magnetic. The flow of sharing continues. I can’t wait to see where it leads me. 

3- Going beyond fear is so energizing

There have been moments where I’ve had a little cringe of Ooh should I share that? Some of my deeply personal poetry. Once I get over that little cringe of fear it’s so liberating. Fear has a way of stopping. Or putting up a wall. If I listened to that fear I would not be hear. When I honor the commitment and share daily, I feel so liberated. I feel free and expansive. It’s okay to honor that feeling (okay, little one, I hear you. And it’s okay to be scared. The key is to be scared and do it anyway. To be with the fear instead of ruled and stopped by the fear.) 

I can’t wait to see where this flow takes me in a month, a year or even 10? Wow. 

See you tomorrow. Because you know I’ll be here.