Why I Stopped Second-Guessing Myself.

How To Master Up Courage and Get Things Done

It’s on the 16th of May 2020 I am seated in my living room wondering why I haven’t mastered the courage to start writing. At the beginning of this year, I promised myself that I would start writing even if it was just for fun. We are almost in the middle of the year, and my self-doubt keeps holding me back. But today is the day I overcame that fear, I am sick and tired of always having these lingering thoughts in my head screaming “what if? You told yourself you would write, why haven’t you?”

I have come to realize that the main reason why I kept postponing my passion for writing until today was because of fear. Perhaps it was the fear that I won’t be able to measure up to some of the greatest writers of all time such as Ernest Hemingway. Maybe I was scared of being deemed a failure and having my writing pieces being deemed as crappy. But in all honesty, after reading the book “Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue.” I was determined to just get it over with and get started with writing. You will never know the outcome of something until you try right? The worst thing that could happen is my writing getting ridiculed and if so, at least I am learning how to best articulate myself with words.

Do you know something? It feels great, I am finally writing, I have finally mustered the courage to get started. Lord knows how many excuses I have given, how many times I have postponed, and told myself, “I will get started tomorrow, this time I am serious.” Only for tomorrow to come around and find me in the same procrastination trap again. This is a major step for me and I want to share with anyone who is facing the same challenge of getting started. Just close your eyes and whisper to yourself, “Today is the day I start, I will not be afraid of the outcome.”

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it” W. M. Lewis