WHAT WAS I WAITING FOR?

When I first started writing and publishing on a public platform, least did I know that someday, I would have a blog for myself. 

 

 One day over a conversation with my brother, he told me – 

“What if the app that you are writing on shuts down someday? What will happen to your work? All that you have written will be lost.” I pondered over it and realised what he said was true. I did not have much content to publish back then which gave me a reason to procrastinate and put off the matter for a few days. 

 

He surprised me one day by setting up a website and sending me the link to it. I could not have done it myself because I don’t know anything about it.No background at all. Even after that, I did not do anything about it for some time. The website was like an unwrapped gift waiting for me to explore. 

 

After a few weeks, my brother asked me again – 

” Why aren’t you writing anything on the website? Have you gone through it or not?” 

I smiled and replied, ” I did open it but haven’t gone through it.”

“But why haven’t you gone through it  ?” He asked me.

“Okay, I will check it out.” I replied.

 

That night,  I logged in. Explored the website and learned how to upload posts and images. 

It did take some time, but I did learn it. 

 

I kept postponing the date to share my website with everyone. Why was I doing this? It was not that my articles were not read by anyone earlier. But then something was stopping me. What was it -fear? Fear of what? What are people going to say? Will they like it? Was it worth it? So many thoughts kept creeping into my mind and I conveniently kept delaying.

 

Every time I kept telling myself let’s do it tomorrow. There were many tomorrows accumulated and my pockets were full of these tomorrows that I could no longer carry their weight. I am not the person who puts away things. But this time, I did. 

 

I was reading the book “THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG” by David J. Schwartz. It’s a wonderful classic book. If you haven’t read it, please do. It did give me the confidence to buckle up and take the necessary action.

 

When I was reading the chapter -Get the action habit, I came across these key points.

 

• Action cures fear.
• Do what you fear and fear disappears.
• Take action, dig in and move the spirit. Don’t wait for the spirit to move you.
• Be an “I’m starting right now” kind of person. Tomorrow, next week, and later are synonymous with failure word never.
• Don’t waste time getting ready to act. Start acting instead.
• Show that you have the ability and ambition to do so.
• Power of positive thinking.

 

Well, I was aware of these things. I guess we all are. But then somewhere I needed a push to get going and for me, it was this chapter. I immediately grabbed my gadget and started taking the necessary action. In a couple of days, I shared my blog and voila!! you all are reading it today.

 

After which, I did feel a sense of relief. The enthusiasm to write more. It feels good to know that people read what I write.  Feedback ( positive or negative) gives me a chance to grow. 

 

Now at times I do sit back and think, what was I waiting for? 

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