Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Brave

Right around this time last year, I participated in Chelsea at Life is a Sunset's Journey Forward link up.  The link up involved choosing a word to focus on working towards throughout 2012.  Last year I focused on the word "Grow".  In 2012 I wanted to focus on personal growth (exploring new interests, meeting new people, and cutting out behaviors that aren't working for me anymore) as well as growing up.  I think I did an excellent job working towards my word last year and it's inspired me to choose a word for 2013.  This year's word is "Brave".



2013 needs to be about pushing myself out of my comfort zone and taking both personal and professional risks.  On the personal end, I'm trying to be more confident about doing things on my own.  I don't know about you, but I turn into a nervous wreck whenever I attend a get together where I won't know anyone other than the host.  I become the QUEEN of bad excuses and end up bailing last minute.  I've pushed myself to suck it up and go to two of these kinds of parties in the past few weeks and I ended up having a fantastic time!  I'm also trying to get better about going to events alone. I've missed out on a lot of great art exhibits/concerts/speakers/movies because if no one else wants to go, I feel uncomfortable going alone.  Last night one of my absolute favorite bands, Gold Fields, was playing in DC.  No one else was interested and typically that would have made me stay at home.  I decided to go anyway and I was so glad I did!  They put on an INCREDIBLE show and I did a ridiculous amount of dancing.

Professionally, I want to be braver about sharing new ideas and voicing my opinion.  I'm always afraid others will think my ideas are silly so I tend to keep them to myself.  But so what if someone thinks an idea is silly?  They might also think it's fantastic.  I'll never know if I don't put my thoughts out there.

Do you have a word that you're working towards in 2013?

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  1. For a very long time I struggled with being brace and just bailing. I've spent the last year or so really work on that and it has amazed me what all has fallen into my lap since then. It is something to be well rewarded for.

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  2. I admire your word choice for 2013. Being Brave is definitely not my strongest suit. Growing up a twin I was so heavily dependent on Micaela (who am I kidding, I still am even if we're nearly 30! haha) that I struggle with all the things you mentioned. Do you know how many movies I miss out on at the theatre because I won't go alone? And movies are my most favourite thing! We should plan a movie date one weekend where we go see the same movie in our different cities completely alone. That would def get me out of my comfort zone. Good for you for not missing out on Gold Fields :) Here's to a braver you in 2013!

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