Today I’m taking a note from my 4-H members. Le
arn to do by doing… It is the 4-H motto and a damn good one at that.
I have tried and started so many things and learned to do many things, yet it is still SO HARD for me to apply them to life. Well, here’s my hint, practice and do over and over and over and over.
There is really no getting out of that. NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.
Life is practice. Life is trial and error. Life is feeling our fear and doing it anyway. Life is not giving up, but learning from our mistakes and trying again.
Right now I’m practicing at life. I’m practicing being me. I’m practicing showing up to use my gifts. I’m practicing with my life purpose. I’m learning what is truth and what is fear. I’m stepping up when I can and working through the emotions when I need to.
It is really all we can do. Show up as our best selves each and every day! Promise ourselves that however our best selves show up is good enough! Even if that means with the Kleenex box under the covers in bed all day because we had to let our tears flow. If we allow ourselves to do this then we can allow ourselves to jump out of bed the next day and dance the day away because our emotions have been let go of.
On the up side of fear is love and success and connection and abundance. That is worth practicing and showing up for. We give our sparkles a chance to shine when we dust off the cobwebs we collected from hiding out in our fear. So go ahead, learn life by practicing, get out there and shine like I know you can! I know its a lot funner that way!