Commit to the Ride

Lesson Learned & Shared

This year I am taking on the #100dayproject by sharing one lesson a day from my Stop Writing Alone journey. I am looking specifically for the lessons I not only learned myself, but the ones I find myself repeating to writers and creatives in my community over and over again.

Commit to the Ride

This is a lesson I learned from some random online video about parenting teenagers. Don't know why I was watching it. Not even sure I was a parent yet (and lord knows I'm still a ways away from parenting a teenager). Either way, video went on to be such a great lesson for me I have carried it ever since. The guy on the video asked us to think about sitting down in a a roller coaster and having the harness pulled down over your shoulders. What's the first thing you do?

YOU
PUSH
BACK.

The thing is THE LAST THING we want is for that harness to open up.

What an A-HA moment for me!

How many times have I taken a step in a new direction in my life only to feel as if the entire Universe was PUSHING BACK against my decision? What if, instead of seeing that as a sign that I was going in the wrong direction, I interpreted that as the Universe just checking in to make sure I was ready for the next great ride of my life?
Ever since hearing this lesson, this is how I interpret push back. When it shows up I simply say, "Yes, Universe, I am sure about this. Let's go."

How do you deal with the push back you feel when you are ready to take the next step?

My #100DayProject for 2024

Introducing my #100dayproject for 2024:

To know me is to know I have a teacher soul. At the end of the day, my passion is learning and sharing that learning with anyone willing to listen. So, when it came time to think of a project that I could realistically take on for 100 days straight, it had to come back to that passion.

For the next 100 days, I will share one lesson learned each day that I find myself continually sharing with writers and creatives in my community. There are plenty of things that come up again and again (in fact, I'm kind of betting that there are at least 100 of them!) and it's about time I wrote them all down somewhere. Let's see how far we get with these mini lessons, let's see how many you remember me chanting before, and how many you needed to be reminded of!