Personal Growth
Soul Writing

The scariest moment is always just before you start.
~Stephen King

Soul Writing

It has finally sunk in that writing, along with being organized, is my core. What did Johann Wolfgang von Goethe say, “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live”, well I trust that ‘I am a writer”! Those words don’t come easy for me, with my 4th-grade teacher red-marking my English paper and not teaching me how to move forward. My teacher was an insecure ass (yes I said it), who I claimed to be my favorite teacher… not! His insecurity, or what they called today – ‘white fragility’, instilled in me the limiting belief that I would never be a writer. After almost 50 years, it’s time for me to tell him to ‘kiss my ass’, then let it go. I write all the time, so according to Robin Finn, the author of “Heart Soul Pen”, I am a writer. She says in her book, “Writers write. If you are writing, you are a writer.” 

Yesterday, on the verge of giving up, I wrote about my pursuit of starting my “Recruiting & Web Design” business. During my writing, while trying to figure out how to look at it differently, I came up with a possible solution. I don’t believe I would have been able to see it if I hadn’t written it down. Getting out of my head, as I like to think of it. I haven’t worked on my next steps yet but this was so refreshing, I had to write it down.

There are other incidents where writing helped me, mostly to get over some fellow. It never really occurred to me to write out my thoughts on my career. That’s not to say I didn’t write about some horrible co-worker, but as far as my interests and career path – not so much.

Embracing The Writer In Me

I embrace that I am a writer, so with this blog, I am going to release the negative voices and work on my writing skill (I know my grammar needs serious work… lol), as I want to become more proficient (and not use AI, as an editor, so much). I am going to explore all the new avenues that pique my interest and I am going to document it all. Silencing my teacher’s insecurities I’m going to write everything down because I see now that it helps me formulate new ideas and I can look back on what worked (and what didn’t).

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