Project 2: A Blog About Life With Kids

My next big project that I had been putting off for at least a year was to create a blog about my life with my kids that could also be a resource to other parents and caregivers. I wanted it to be something that as a parent I would find useful and something that will keep a record of some of the things that I do with my kids and how I think of them. I really wanted to include so much into this blog and was being held up by this silly little thing: the title.

Well after hearing that radio show I decided to just sit down and do it. I thought about a lot of different titles but none were very clever or they were but did not fit the topics I would be writing about in the blog. I finally just went with Blogging with Children: Photos, Food, Child Development, Reviews and More.

Very ho hum, but a success because it was done. If I had waited for the perfect title I would be waiting still. I started adding in posts and pages and felt such a flood of relief to have it started. I also felt a huge amount of anxiety sharing it the first time and second time. 

So the title is not perfect but it is okay and it is getting the job done. 

A little something to leave you with, a quote from Suze Orman of all people, "Fear hates more than anything else to be defeated." 

How are you working to defeat your fear this year?

My First No Fear Project

My first project during my year of no fear is probably not what you would expect (which is probably this blog). It was actually a project that my husband approached me about. He proposed that we get involved in starting a non-profit, non-partisan, political group that would try to get politicians to listen to the the people of the United States instead of large corporations, or other entities, who fund their campaigns.

I have always been very interested in politics and I definitely have my opinions about most issues so I looked at him with a bit of skepticism. Non-partisan? Really...why would I want to being doing something that would not just support my own ideals. Well needless to say he convinced me that my ideals will not matter at all if politicians are unwilling to listen to anyone because they have to support the entities that support their campaigns. A new ideal was born. The ideal that people are citizens and should be who politicians listen to, not corporations and other large entities pushing the ideal of a company for greater gain of that company.

So I said I was willing to help him, however my voice inside was thinking...whoa this is a huge undertaking that you have no experience in. Can you even come close to achieving the goals that are set out right now. It took me a few tries, but I was able to plug away at my part of getting the website up and going, with a logo, content, polls, and point of view (and a new blog). The whole process took a crew of us, each doing a part and I was a part! I was amazed at how empowering it was to work on something like that.  Even if we don't achieve our goal it has helped me tremendously with confidence to do other things.

You can check out this website at www.buybackourcountry.org. I have found that this is a project that I really do believe in and I hope really works and that I am so proud of my contribution to. It has helped me feel like I can work on other projects like this blog.

What is an empowering experience that you have had lately?