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A New Year, A Yes Year

2015 is my year of saying, Yes.

Yes to opportunities that scare the crap out of me, push against my comfortable habits, challenge my shyness, and confront my resistance toward fulfilling my dreams and seizing opportunities. It’s a year of saying, yes, and figuring it out–whatever it is–along the way, in the moment and usually afterward, when many mistakes are made. It’s going to be messy at times, imperfect often, and, I suspect, quite incredible.

I follow Elizabeth Gilbert on Facebook. She is a reflective thinker, a talented writer, a brave adventurer, who inspires and encourages myself, as well as many, to believe in the importance of cultivating our unique and creative expression. Our important, brave work.

One of her latest Facebook posts is currently promoting her next book being published September 22, 2015, titled, BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR. To promote her upcoming work she is posting a quote from the book each Monday. The first quote seemed perfect, timely and validating. Just another nudge from the universe, as per usual, when you begin to step onto the path. When you begin to finally say, yes.

So here it is…

“Your bravery is the big strong voice (or sometimes the tremulous little voice) that says: ‘The new thing. I choose the new thing. I am absolutely terrified, but that’s only normal because I am a human being…yet still, I choose the new thing.”

And, so it begins…I choose the new thing. This online journal is one of my new things. I’m terrified to share my writing with the world. I’m terrified to publish my creative works and ship them out into that big ol’ sea of human beings to judge and to feel or to not feel something after encountering it. It’s out of my control. It’s a new thing. I don’t really know how to blog or be successful at it. I don’t honestly know much about the publishing world. But, I’m saying, yes. I’m choosing a new thing. And, I will figure it out, all of it, along the way.

Yes, means that I will publish a post at least once a week. I will share short stories, chapters from books in the making, reflections, curiosities and even some art. I will share my journey of the New Year of Yes and remain transparent about the glorious and terrifying struggles it will invite. It is my hope that you will be inspired, maybe even encouraged to step onto the path of your important work that only you can grace the world with despite how terrifying it may be.

May your small light ignite something grand, as it only can….
Autumn