A friend asked me recently how I find the inspiring people I’ve interviewed here. I think it’s really all about soul sisters Faith and Fate. When I first started blogging in 2004, 5 years ago, I did it because the people I knew then were doing it. Though I started writing since I was 6, I was a bit wary of going online and sharing my thoughts with the world. But I did, eventually.
My first blog was all about me. My personal thoughts about navigating my way through my twenties. A newspaper editor who read it said I sounded like him when he was that age. So yeah it was more of an online diary than anything else.
I later moved on to blogging professionally when I lucked out and scored a job at Tiny Prints, an online stationery store. Although I didn’t know it at the time, my experience writing for them and their sister site Wedding Paper Divas would help catapult me into copywriting, web writing, blogging and ultimately the freelance writing world.
On an interview once, I received the most valuable advice ever from the interviewee. He said, “I believe that whatever job we take now should be a stepping stone to what we really want to do in the future.” For me this was a revelation. Previously, I was job hopping without considering my dreams. From then on, I decided I was going to stop floating and get anchored in my writing. Although I’ve taken the odd job here and there for money, I’ve still held on.
I might be only a pebble closer to my dreams but I’m comforted in knowing that at least I’m doing it. I’m creating my own reality. The people I’ve found on my journey came out of nowhere just because I opened myself up to possibility. I’m actually on Martha Beck’s second book following, “Following Your Own North Star” called “Steering by Starlight.” And it’s all about the magic that happens when you have the courage to life in. I think too many people are scared of disappointment, afraid of not being worthy of their dreams.
The truth is. The fact that we are here means that we’ve already encountered a life’s worth of struggle and hardship. There’s a reason why we’ve had to endure it. Everyone has a purpose in life. Everyone has a dream. Believe in yourself and know that what makes you unique is invaluable to the world. Share your dreams with others and open the door to the possibility that life is a lot more magical than it seems.
I did. And that’s the long winded answer to how I have so much amazing people on this blog to share their inspirational stories with. How about you? What’s your story?
