Color! I did a Doodlecam today and played with my Winsor & Newton watercolor markers. Nothing fancy – some spots of color in the open fields inside my knot doodle – but I like the effect.
Mostly what I talked about on today’s Doodlecam, though, wasn’t the technique of what I was doing, but fear.
Overcoming fear (which, if the fear is of the unknown, is mostly a matter of *doing what you fear*… a lot!) Leaning into fear.
And how I was NOT a natural born performer and public speaker! Noooooooooooo!
I’ve gotten comfortable getting up in front of people ONLY any virtue of getting up in front of people. A LOT.
That’s how it works, folks.
Maybe some people are lucky enough to be born fearless, but not me. Not by a long shot.
For most of us, the vast majority of us, we have to learn to dance with that fear. To lean into it.
We have to get comfortable with the itchy-scratchy discomfort of it, and just accept that EVERY SINGLE TIME we do something new, we are going to feel that awful sense of fear, discomfort, even terror. “I can’t do this.” “I’m not good enough.” “I’m not up to the task.” Same old gremlins. Every time. They never go away.
They’re trying to keep you safely inside your comfort zone. But YOUR job is to GROW, to get OUTSIDE your comfort zone.
So when those gremlins tell you THERE BE DRAGONS, DON’T GO THERE, you know that THIS is EXACTLY the direction you NEED to go to grow.
Onward, ho!
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