Over the past year and a half I found myself staring at this blank white screen many times. I've had an idea or a thought that I wanted to share. I'd write a sentence or two. I'd resource pictures. I've even written entire posts, but I haven't published them.
Over the past months I've even made a blogging calendar. But here I am again. Typing and deleting and editing and cutting and pasting words.
Have you ever felt tongue tied? Maybe that's how I feel.
I've got the words and the ideas and the images all floating around in my head, but it's this thing of sitting at the computer typing all of them out. That's the problem.
I have this friend, Kathy Key. She's a life coach. (You can find out more about her life coaching here.) Sometimes our schedules permit us to spend leisurely mornings at some breakfast nook. A few months ago we happened to be sitting at just one of those booths when our conversation moved from professional discussion to personal goals.
I was going on and on lamenting about how I felt stuck and tongue tied and purposeless when she stopped me. Using her life coaching skills she asked me about my ultimate goals. I listed many goals all of which seem so impossible even now.
At that breakfast table she began to speak life to those dreams again. At that table, she saw the potential in my dreams. But she didn't just see my abilities or talents that make those dreams possible. She began to give me actions to see those dreams come to pass.
So here I am. Taking a step. It's a couple months late, but it's still a step.
I won't reach my dreams today and probably not tomorrow and maybe not even the day after that. But as I read and reread and delete and edit and cut and paste I can clearly see one thing. The blank white screen has a lot of black on it.
And maybe I'm not as tongue tied as I thought.
