Living Life A Little Fearless
As I work on myself in 2016 I am learning that in order to be successful I have to face some of my fears. Not facing them can hold me back from being successful. Especially being in the business of blogging. Blogging requires you to sell yourself and put yourself out there. I am not too good at doing that and I know that it is something that I need to work on. So I am forcing myself to face some of my fears one day at a time. I recently conquered a fear last Friday. I really hate seeing myself on video and the sound of my voice. I have no idea why but I have been like this for a long time. I have done a few YouTube videos here and there but for the most part, I try to stay away from video. I could improve on my videos by adding in royalty-free music to give it an extra edge and maybe deflect from how I sound, but I haven’t really thought much about it. With YouTube, you can post a video and basically forget about it. I recently decided to try a new form of social media platform. Well new for me. The name of it is Periscope. Periscope has been out for a while now. I have watched others’ periscope videos to learn some things but I haven’t done one for myself. Something about people watching me live unsettled me. So this past Friday I signed up for a #passthescope challenge with a Facebook group that I am a part of. We had to share how we were going to be courageous in 2016. I wanted to get over my problem of being scared of what people would think of me. So in order to prepare and not to be so nervous when I did it, I did a periscope that was only a few minutes long. I also did one on Saturday. When Monday came I felt I was ready even though I was still a little nervous. I took a deep breath and when it was my turn I rocked that scope. My way of being courageous in 2016 is to get out of my head and own who I am. Stop letting my fear of what people think to stop me from living.
The lesson I learned from doing this was I will never get far if I continue to be scared of everything. So now that I have conquered that fear I can’t wait to see what other ones that I can conquer. Have you faced a fear lately? What was it?
