New Endeavors
Posted by Lisa on January 22, 2007
Incase you haven’t heard, I am rejoining the real world today. I am going back to school to finish what I had started when I went basketcase. I am so excited! I haven’t been a part of the real world for a very long time. I know I am ready, and I want it more than anything.
But I am also stressing and full of anxiety. Doubt keeps creeping in and telling me I’m not ready for this. Fear keeps telling me I will fail. Esteem tells me I am not worthy. I wish they would all shut the hell up and leave me alone.
I will face doubt, fear and esteem head on, and prove them all wrong. I know this.
How do you handle new endeavors? What do you do to get over the anxiety?
Dee said
Hi Lisa, I hope you don’t mind my posting. I happened across your blog by searching for more info on the Chino Valley bizarre sexual predator case. Anyway, I wanted to encourage you on the returning to school thing. This is my second semester of grad school. It took me ten years to return to college to finish my undergraduate degree (just graduated spring 2006). I was terrified, thought I was perhaps too old to try this again, that things would be too difficult, that I couldn’t possibly juggle family, school, etc. BUT that fear drove me to work my butt off and then I became determined. Anxiety is often our friend in that it pushes us to change. That doesn’t make it a pleasant process, but the end result can be amazing.
My best advice is for you to channel that stress/anxiety/fear into determination. Allow yourself to be human and fallible, you can fail and fall and accept that as part of being human! Then pick yourself back up and know that you are going to fall, but there are no limits to the number of times that you can get back up. Also, a great website that gives daily affirmation type emails, but the kind that you simply won’t find anywhere else — http://www.tut.com
I wish you the best of luck. You are limitless in reality, only your thoughts can limit your dreams. Squash those suckers when they show up with less than nice things to say!