The Adventures in Trying
A few years back I started a blog called Firsts & Fears.
I know. I know…. I have never been great at naming projects.
The idea was: every day for minimum of one year I would try something I was either afraid of or something I had never done before. Then write about it.
I had always loved blogging and really wanted to bring mine back. I had also watched the movie Julie & Julia one too many times and thought if I had a main focus for the blog I would stick with it longer. Which sort of worked.
I kept up with it for about 8 months, but our PCS to Guam was the final end to it.
Well, it was where my ability to keep up with it fizzled out. Though Guam was a new adventure and essentially everything I was doing was either new or terrifying, I just didn’t have the capacity to write it daily and eventually just stopped.
I hadn’t even thought about the blog in probably 5 years. Guam stripped away everything I knew about myself and now, 3 years off island, I am just starting to piece together exactly what that time meant for me as a human.
In setting up this new site and blog, one of the first things that came to me was to revive the Firsts & Fear concept.
One of my greatest passions in my life is motivating those around me and getting them excited for their lives.
I find myself regularly working to convince friends to just TRY things. I hear the women I love talk about all of the things they’d love to do or achieve, but then they list all the reasons they can’t do it. None of which are based in fact, I must add.
I kept hearing myself replying “BUT HAVE YOU TRIED???”
How do you know you can’t if you haven’t even tried yet?
I know that as humans, other people can’t talk us into doing things. Me screaming JUST TRY IT at the top of my lungs directly at you for the rest of my days would never be enough motivation to get you to actually try something.
But what does motivate someone to try is to see others do it first.
So here I am.
I’m no longer just going to talk.
I’m no longer just going to try to convince you with my words that trying things is the only way you’ll ever know what you’re capable of.
I’m going to show you.
I’m going to try new things. And share with you just how it goes.
Now. I haven’t decided what I’ll be trying yet. LOL. But that’ll come soon enough.
I am super excited to see where this project takes me this round.
And slightly terrified because y’all came up with some wild stuff last time… like washing my hair every day for a week???? Sick minds you all have!
So let’s hear it… what should I try this time???
No limits in suggestions. But I sure won’t guarantee it’ll be one I do.
♥️,
Jessi.
