Sometimes all you need to do is try

For so long now I have been waiting for the right moment to start writing on my blog, but that always led me to feeling like it was never the right time to start. I always made some excuse why I couldn’t start whether it was my mental health, my writing skills or just the thought that I have nothing to offer the world. Time and time again I would say I’m going to start writing but I always let my excuses get in the way of keeping the promise to myself.

A few months ago I read “ Girl wash your face” by Rachel Hollis and the big takeaway I got from it was I needed to be more accountable to myself and stop breaking promises that I really wanted to keep. Now many that that was harsh but it was exactly what I needed in my life. I needed that piece of advice and I’m so thankful for it. So I started with small things like wearing makeup at work everyday , packing my lunch, or washing my face every night before bed. They may seem like small trivial things, but they helped me to feel confident again that I could keep a promise to myself even if it was something small like just promising myself to pack my lunch every day.

After trying to keep small promises to myself now for a bit I was thinking the other day that I still wasn’t keeping the one promise that really matters to me, developing and pursuing my writing. I was still letting my excuses get in the way of things I wanted in my life. I needed to just start posting on my blog and hold myself accountable. I had already proved to myself that I could keep small promises to myself so I wanted to try to keep a big one. so I decided on the first of July I was going to post on my blog every day for a month. No matter what I’m going to try to post something every day this month.

So far I’ve been successful and haven’t missed a day. I just decided that it doesn’t matter that my writing isn’t where I would like it to be, or that I may not know what to write about, or my life is boring, it all just doesn’t matter because the only way I’m going to make this happen for myself is just jumping all the way in without any hesitation. I may write a bunch of crap this month but by the end I’ll just be proud that I kept this important promise to myself

Sitting down with all the necessary supplies to write.