It's always that first step. Whether its stepping onto a stage to sing your first note in front of a crowd or climbing the ladder to the high dive, its the first initial step that is the hardest. I went roller staking for the first time in over a decade last weekend and even though it's something I used to do all the time, the minute I laced those stakes up I was nervous. Nervous about falling, nervous about failure.
Why is it we get anxiety? Why is it most of the time our only barrier to the things we want is our own fears and insecurities? As soon as I launched off onto the floor and began staking, the anxiety went away and the childhood joy came back. The sad thing all the things we are afraid to accomplish are really not that scary. We just have to learn to take that first step.
I know its a lot easier said than done....
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
You'll Never Be As Young As You Are Now......
For all of you that truly know me, it has been said I go after my goals like a bull in a china shop. Steadily, attacking each one and marking them off one by one. Although I like to have set goals, I still enjoy the vagueness of life. My other amazing trait is I tend to make fast quick decisions. I decided to get my MBA one night and then two days later was accepted to a program and the other day woke up and said I want to see another continent this year which one? Africa or South America?
Since I am not quite ready for a leap into true solo travel, I am exploring South America on a group tour but going solo. It should be a great experience and I am truly loving the thought of taking a trip with a bunch of strangers across the globe. You can learn so much from people rather than places. I chose an option to room with a perfectly good stranger, now may say I am crazy but it is all apart of the experience and being open to life. Life doesn't exist in your 5 block radius, there are so many cultures and so many people to learn from. I seriously, can't wait! I will try to update daily about my trip since I am still new to this whole blog thing.
My parents are about to have stroke and probably are wishing their daughter wasn't a travel obsessed freak but hey they should have brought home all those old geography text books and that globe for me Christmas '90. Ever since then, I have been planning my escape. Three years ago, I was too scared to go after the things I want and I was too scared to do them alone. I guess one of my biggest lessons of my youth is learning the power of belief in yourself. Most triumphs are not about conquering physical adventures or challenges. Most are purely internal. Take ourselves from our own fears and when you do that there is no stopping yourself.
I think what I am excited the most for is the Tango lesson in Buenos Aires and of course the food!!!! Also, here lately I have been a waterfall chaser and Iguzau Falls is probably going to blow me away.
These places have been on my list for a long time and in the next five years I have these on my radar: Thailand, South Africa, Australia, Peru, Italy, Hawaii and Eastern Europe. My mom when I started telling her these long term travel plans started crying and asking me, "Why I didn't want normal things and normal goals, like a house a family." She says my big dreams aren't going to fulfill me. She is wrong though. I do want a "normal life" but not in a normal way. When I 30, I'll trade in a sports car for a sporty SUV. I am in no rush to get married and have a family. Do I want one? Of course!
Because I have a wandering spirit doesn't mean I can't settle down. There is a difference between settling and building. I want to build a life, not settle for one. I want to explore and reach past my comfort zone so I can inspire my children to do so. I want my children to be individual unique and able to learn through me that fear is a weakness and life is to short for it. See somewhere deep down there is a domestic bone in my body and I'll be making pancakes on Saturday morning, but for right now, I'm enjoying sleeping in and staying up late and being young as long as I possible can. Yeah, call it Peter Pan Syndrome. I am proud to suffer from it, because youth is the one gift you can't buy and you can't get back. Celebrate being restless, it makes you grow.
My parents are about to have stroke and probably are wishing their daughter wasn't a travel obsessed freak but hey they should have brought home all those old geography text books and that globe for me Christmas '90. Ever since then, I have been planning my escape. Three years ago, I was too scared to go after the things I want and I was too scared to do them alone. I guess one of my biggest lessons of my youth is learning the power of belief in yourself. Most triumphs are not about conquering physical adventures or challenges. Most are purely internal. Take ourselves from our own fears and when you do that there is no stopping yourself.
I think what I am excited the most for is the Tango lesson in Buenos Aires and of course the food!!!! Also, here lately I have been a waterfall chaser and Iguzau Falls is probably going to blow me away.
Because I have a wandering spirit doesn't mean I can't settle down. There is a difference between settling and building. I want to build a life, not settle for one. I want to explore and reach past my comfort zone so I can inspire my children to do so. I want my children to be individual unique and able to learn through me that fear is a weakness and life is to short for it. See somewhere deep down there is a domestic bone in my body and I'll be making pancakes on Saturday morning, but for right now, I'm enjoying sleeping in and staying up late and being young as long as I possible can. Yeah, call it Peter Pan Syndrome. I am proud to suffer from it, because youth is the one gift you can't buy and you can't get back. Celebrate being restless, it makes you grow.
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