I’ve been MIA since my last blog post on April 7th. I had some health issues to contend with, but everything is okay, and I’m back. For the last week or so, I could not come up with anything to write about. I thought I had lost my creative writing mojo. Then, my husband played a YouTube video of a woman violinist, Nina D, playing an Eruption Van Halen cover. It shook me out of my funk, and I got inspired to write this blog post. She is amazing!

I wondered what makes some people so good at something. We’ve all been taught that the only way anyone gets good at their craft is through practice. That’s number one. If you want to be good at anything, you need to put in the time to learn it well.

But there are other things needed to be good at something. We need to love it and believe in our abilities, not with cockiness but with a humble belief that we are good enough. No one knows everything, and those who play an instrument, sing, or drive a race car will always benefit from improvement. So, we need to keep our ego in check. And by the same token, we need to believe in ourselves and know we’re good enough.

The most important thing to being good at something is to take action—real, I’m in it to win it attitude, action.

When we do an action toward that thing we want to be good at, it can be difficult at first. When I created my website, I had to walk away a few times from the frustration of not understanding how to do it. I read books, watched YouTube videos, took notes, and eventually learned how to create my website. Even though I know what I’m doing, there’s much more I could learn. But, the goal was achieved because I created a website. I took action and did it.

We can accomplish whatever we want just by taking action.

Action speaks louder than words. You can profess your love to someone, but if you don’t take action to show them, is it real love or lip service? Words are just words, but action shows others that we mean it and it’s important to us. However, for us to do an action, it’s got to be something we want, or else we’re wasting our time.

Doing an action helps build self-confidence and self-esteem and helps us overcome anxiety and depression, too. When we create something from nothing, we come up with our thoughts and make them into something real. That is cool! How do you feel when you build or make something and it’s done? Don’t you feel a sense of accomplishment (like something was checked off the list)? I know I do, and it feels good.

If we ever think there’s no way I could do that or I’d never be able to learn how to do that, take one action step at a time. We can learn anything. We just need to be willing to take action.

I was in a sound therapy class, where the instructor created sounds with large jars hit with a mallet meant to induce relaxation. It was not for me and didn’t help me relax, but she told a story I found worth remembering before the class. I’m paraphrasing; I don’t remember it word for word.

She said that when you’re learning something new, it seems like you’re walking through a tall grass field and can’t see your way. It’s frustrating and scary. But if you keep taking that path, eventually, the grass gets pushed down, and one day, the path is an open dirt path from repeated use.  In other words, the more you do something, the easier it becomes.

Don’t ever give up on something you can’t stop thinking about.

When we first learn an action, such as riding a bike, cooking, or learning another language, it’s hard! We’re going to make mistakes and get frustrated. No one comes out of the gate as an expert. It takes time, patience, and continuous action.

Take action over and over. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Fumble. Fall. Get up. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Just think back to something you wanted to do or learn and how it felt when you first did it. It was challenging, wasn’t it? But if you stuck to it, it got easier, right?

Jen Sincero, who penned the book series, You Are a Badass, wrote,

“Each time you grow, you get to learn something new, which basically means you have to get uncomfortable again. Because when you arrive at a level you’ve never been at before, you’re faced with challenges you’ve never experienced before. It’s the willingness to keep pushing through new challenges, not shrink from them back into your comfort zone, that separates the successful from the unsuccessful.”

Boy, did that resonate with me. I’ve done that before—”shrink from them back into my comfort zone.” It’s so easy to do, right?  When we do all the easy things, we don’t grow or evolve—or attain our goals.

If we want to achieve a goal, we need to take action toward it.

I’ve been afraid to take the actions needed to achieve my goals, but I kept pushing through. The unknown is scary. But like Jen Sincero wrote, “we have to push through new challenges.”

Today, try to take one action towards what you want. If you want to lose weight, let your action be being mindful when you eat to eat less. It’s a small action that can produce tremendous results.

So, that’s what I have for today. I hope I’ve given you some inspiration to work with. That’s my goal here. I appreciate you reading this.

To taking action,

Francesca

 

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