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I haven’t blogged in about 10 months now. I can’t remember why I stopped – I’m not even sure that there was a reason for stopping. I have been thinking about getting back to regular blogging since about August (so much so that I changed from the free blog back to the design that I had previously, which I have to pay for). But I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Even though I had written posts on a regular basis before, I became scared to start doing it again. I was paralyzed by fear. The fear that I am not good enough, that my writing is not good enough, that nobody cares about what I have to say, that nothing I say matters. And so I didn’t write.
I did, however, read a lot of other people’s writing over the past few months. And, slowly, I started to get inspired to get past the fear and start writing again.
Here are a just a couple of the blog posts that provided me with inspiration:
From The Art of Non-Conformity
Mike Robbins
And, finally, what pushed me over the edge was a guest post that I read today on Kelly Rae Roberts’ blog.
The post was written by Jen Gray, and it spoke to me. It was as though she was sending a message directly to my heart. I am tremendously grateful to Jen for her post, and since we don’t know each other, I doubt that she will ever know the significant impact that her words have had on me. I can only hope that I can have the same impact on a reader someday. I think that it is worth it to try.
Finally, I made a commitment when I first started this blog - that this would be the “Onething” that I could do to encourage myself and others to appreciate the all of the good that there is in life. I’m not a person who takes her commitments lightly, so here I am. It’s good to be back.
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