Was reading The Comfort Queen Blog (Jennifer) by way of Creative Juicy Arts (Chris)this morning.  The particular posts are about having a freedom from self-improvement day/month(/year).

Chris says:

Freedom From Self Improvement gives us total permission to stop the madness. It says to us that maybe…. just maybe …. we don’t need to fix or change one more darn thing. Maybe we really are OK.  In fact maybe we’re already pretty amazing! All we need to do is to get on board with what everyone who loves us already knows. Which is that we are fine and the only reason to ever do anything at all is if it’s going to make us happy. Period. (see her full blog here)

and pointed on over to Jennifer’s blog, where, given my own current commitment to great big scarey things, I clicked onto: Comfort During Fearful Times:  When You Make a Big Fat Hairy Goal (just reading that is enough to make me feel safer:  I’m not alone!). “A BFHG, man.”

What can I do?  Take myself by the hand (and take Bob’s hand and the dog’s) (paws).

Tell myself I really can hang out right here, without knowing everything is going to turn out the way I want it, I can hang out here and breath and really, pinkie swear, it’s okay. I’m in the unknown. Which is actually where I always am!

And then, miracles of miracles, I realize I’m not afraid.

I’m excited.

I’m alive.

Could it be that sometimes, just sometimes, fear lies in our interpretation? Of events, of sensations, of thoughts even. Add a little hand  holding and breathing and hey, whew, maybe this isn’t so bad.

(Jennifer’s whole post here.)

Sometimes all it takes to step into your own power is a little “handholding:”  Someone to tell you that you are not alone, and they know you can do it because if you want it, you already have it, you just don’t know it yet.  Sometimes that “someone” has to be your own true self who speaks to you when you take a breath and settle long enough to hear it.  “Yes, you can.”  “Yes, it’s really excitement, not fear.” “Yes, you can rewrite the story/interpretation any way you wish.” “Yes! Yes! Yes! You go, Girl!”

  I am about to pay what for me is an enourmous amount of moneyto a coach  to learn to live from where I want to be, not from where I am – because it makes me very happy.  And I am very VERY excited! And very much ALIVE!

thought for the day:  Even if things are as bad as they could possible be and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; wemay as well please our sensibilites and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.  Annie Dillard