Be not afraid 2016 is about to start. In reality it started yesterday. I am a planner, a goal setter, heck, I am a
great goal setter and planner. The
problem is I am a terrible goal accomplisher.
I can sit down and set up a
goal, steps to achieve them, dates to finish them and reasons why I should do
them. But then I am frozen or lazy or
scared or worried, really any reason you can think of, I have used.
Well, this years will be different. (I say that every year too) I mean it this
time. In fact, I have already crossed of
two goals for 2016 off my list. And they
were not easy goals. These goals made me
nervous, scared and once or twice I considered not going through with
them. But, I did and I am so happy to
report I am still alive and kicking.
My first goal was something I have wanted to do for a while
but I was scared, worried that I didn’t have much to offer and that meant I
considered doing it but never followed through. The goal was being a guest on a
podcast. My friend and fellow doula (I’m
a doula by the way, which was another goal I set for myself and completed last
year..a precursor to Be not afraid 2016) who has a podcast called DearestDoula. It’s fantastic and I have learned
a lot from listening, which made me question if I had anything of value to
offer as a guest. Regardless, I signed
up to be a guest after being asked months and months ago. I worried, fretted, got sick to my stomach but
still did not cancel. I pushed it back
one day but that was for other reasons.
When the day came I was up at 7 am worrying. But I made it to the 9 am appointed time and
had a wonderful time taking and sharing.
Sure, I was nervous, sure I believe I might have stuttered through the
whole thing but I FINISHED IT. I was so
happy, so proud, and even if it never airs I feel accomplished. I think my friend has her editing cut out for
her.
My second goal was to enroll in a Child Birth Educator
training class. This course will help me
grow my skill set to achieve a bigger goal of starting my own private birth
worker business. One step at a
time. Since I work at a different job
and my hours have increased, I have been unable to work as a doula. Even though I was so upset about that, I
realized I could either let this time go to waste or I could use it to learn
and grow as a birth worker. I am now
enrolled in the class and I almost didn’t do it because I thought the expense
was not in the budget. But, I realized
that I use that excuse a lot then use the same amount of money eating out,
buying books, or just nickel and dime it away.
Again, excuses and what if’s were going to stop me. But it didn’t because with a little tweaking I
was able to enroll and I am now awaiting the package. I will post when I get it and link up to the
company too.
Two goals done before January 1st. I think that is a great start to the year of
Be Not Afraid 2016.
In the coming weeks, I will post on all the different
resources I use to keep me motivated and on track. I am so excited to share motivational
podcasts, books, goal setting ideas and the rest of my goals for 2016.
I also started a new email benotafraid2016@gmail.com. This new blog and a new twitter LindaWalsh2016
to document my year of be not afraid. I
am committed to this but I will be honest too.
I start blogs all the time and do not follow through. I hope am going to follow through on this
one because I feel this blog is an extension of my need to accomplish and be
accountable.
Happy New Year and I hope you too have a Be not afraid type
of year!!!
