Awesome article, Meta. I tell myself something I heard somewhere that it's wise to put yourself inside discomfort, or discomfort will find you and you'll be ill-prepared. The vulnerability of sharing my writings really puts this idea to the test for me. The more I can maintain the feeling versus the idea of being happy and at peace with or without external success for my creative projects, the less the fears drive me. I'm definitely a work-in-progress!
Yup, I completely agree with reframing as a good way forward, and a good way around one's fears. In a much-loved rowing documentary, a coach explains how, when she and her teammate were training, the teammate would often say if there's choppy water in the [Charles River] Basin, then that's the day we need to go to the Basin. In fact, she would elaborate, we -need- the choppy Basin in order to succeed. I always think of this particular reframing, not only in my athletic pursuits but in my writing life. If an obstacle, or a sheer dread, presents itself in front of you, find a way that you -need- that obstacle. It's not a question of avoiding it. It's a question of working with/around it, and getting better at the thing you're trying to achieve.
Reframing, as you so well say, is the antidote to fear. Thinking about how you think is the first step in understanding and only then can you change reframe the thoughts that hold you back from your dreams.
Awesome article, Meta. I tell myself something I heard somewhere that it's wise to put yourself inside discomfort, or discomfort will find you and you'll be ill-prepared. The vulnerability of sharing my writings really puts this idea to the test for me. The more I can maintain the feeling versus the idea of being happy and at peace with or without external success for my creative projects, the less the fears drive me. I'm definitely a work-in-progress!
Yup, I completely agree with reframing as a good way forward, and a good way around one's fears. In a much-loved rowing documentary, a coach explains how, when she and her teammate were training, the teammate would often say if there's choppy water in the [Charles River] Basin, then that's the day we need to go to the Basin. In fact, she would elaborate, we -need- the choppy Basin in order to succeed. I always think of this particular reframing, not only in my athletic pursuits but in my writing life. If an obstacle, or a sheer dread, presents itself in front of you, find a way that you -need- that obstacle. It's not a question of avoiding it. It's a question of working with/around it, and getting better at the thing you're trying to achieve.
Reframing, as you so well say, is the antidote to fear. Thinking about how you think is the first step in understanding and only then can you change reframe the thoughts that hold you back from your dreams.