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This is my very first blog entry on my website. New stuff is scary. I’ve been meaning to start this blog for over a year, but have found other things to distract me from accomplishing this somewhat tiny task. That’s what fear will do for you–help you find distractions.
In December 2013, I completed the coursework for my doctorate in Educational Leadership. I have found every distraction imaginable to keep me from writing my dissertation. In my mind, it’s a big scary monster. Two nights ago, I dreamed that I was a large commercial airplane crash on my house (no one was hurt). Interested in dream interpretations, I googled “dream of plane crash”. Guess what it revealed . . . that I’m afraid of overcoming a big task. Hmmm. Wonder what that task might be. Until Thursday, I would have connected to my past year of being unemployed. Having received and accepted a terrific job offer, I didn’t connect the dream with unemployment, but with the process of writing my dissertation.
Tonight, there will be no dreams of crashing airplanes. Tonight, I have conquered a scary task in connecting this wordpress site to a hosting site. Tomorrow, I will go to my writing spot and focus on getting started on Chapter One (of five). The scary task of finding a job is behind me. The scary task of getting this blog started (a distraction from writing a dissertation) is behind me. For the next three weeks, I have nothing but time to write.
The scary monsters in our lives are our own creation. I just “poofed” some of mine away. Where are your big scary monsters?