“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had – every day I’m learning something new.”– Richard Branson
Day 18 – Try Doing Something New, Even If You Know You’ll Suck At It
How To Do This: Try doing something new today, especially if there is an area you know you are not great at. Whatever the “challenge” is for You, today, Just Do It: cook, dance, paint, draw, sing, run, learn a few words in a foreign language…be creative with this. Allow yourself to fail gloriously while giving your best to the task. Laugh and have fun while doing it, but be careful and don’t poison anyone with your burned pasta. 🙂
Most of the times we avoid learning new things because we are afraid to fail, to be ridiculous, to make fools of ourselves. It’s the Ego’s trap, that You didn’t have when You were a child.
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”-Richard Branson
So putting yourself back into that child-like state that You get into when You try doing a new thing is another doorway to your true self, to your gut feeling.
I challenge myself everyday together with You on this 30 days challenge. And I’ve noticed that since I’ve began this, I receive and I am willing to take on new challenges, like starting a new blog in Romanian or starting to make videos to accompany the written blog posts. It’s a hustle and bustle in the beginning, but it’s worth it on so many levels.
When You will be doing your new thing today, notice your thoughts, how You talk to yourself, how you scold or encourage yourself, how you get mad or laugh at yourself. Awareness, as usual, is the key to transforming this action into an opportunity to grow and get closer to your real self.
Notice these stages as You’ll go through it:
- getting all excited saying “I’m gonna do this today!”
- getting out of your comfort zone when actually doing it
- taking the risk to fail
- failing and doing it all over again
- laughing at yourself and having fun while doing it.
So that’s my take on today’s exercise. I am so looking forward to read your stories about it in the comments bellow. If You missed yesterday’s suggestion here it is.
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With all my love,
Raluca