Kathleen's Blog

Ask yourself what scares you and then go and do THAT.

I spent a lot of last year afraid.  New place, new work environment, new friends, new marriage, new weather patterns (!!) and a new house.  Almost everything around me caused me some anxiety.

How was I going to find Target?

What if I got stuck in the snow?

How was I going to stay warm?

What if I couldn’t juggle it all?

What if telecommuting didn’t work out?

What if we couldn’t rent one of the houses?

What if no one likes me?

I started staying in my comfort zone: 1,500 square feet at our house on S High Street. My negative expectations became a self-fulfilling prophecy. I was writing my own unhappy ending. Nothing good happens in your comfort zone.

Then I decided I needed to trust the flow of life, expect the best from the situation(s) and write a book with a happy ending.

So I started to take little, itty, bitty leaps of faith.  No seismic events occurred… so then my leaps got a little bigger. Blessings were waiting for me to claim them as they had been all along.  I can find Target(s), drive decently in the snow, have added layers of clothes and boots to my winter wardrobe, embraced the enhanced productivity in telecommuting, rented both houses to great people, finished remodeling the house we live in and I have made some fun, new friends.

So this year, I am going to try really hard to continue to do what scares me.

Love, me