Bloganuary Day 31: The Thing I’m most scared to do, and how I’d do it

Bloganuary writing prompt

What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

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Oh, I have an entire laundry list of these things – Things I have been scared of, but how I ended up doing. So this is not exactly a hypothetical question for me, it is a very real thing.

Looking back, the approach that worked for me can be summarized as such:

If you are scared of something, face it head on. Either you’ll die, or you’ll come out winning.

In my case, I’m still alive and kicking!

The first scary thing that I got over was public speaking. The moment I ever thought of being on stage, my entire body would start shivering. I couldn’t manage to even share one sentence on stage. For the longest time it bothered me. I started overcoming my fears first thanks to a public speaking class, which was followed by several other opportunities to practice my speaking in friendlier situations, such as in the local University YMCA. But the clincher came to me when I faced my fears out in the open, I converted the nervous energy that came to me as I was on stage to excitement, I found a burst of energy embrace me, and that made all the difference!

I have used this approach in several other things – I used to be shit scared of speaking on the telephone, I faced it, and won over it! I used to be scared of bungee jumping, I’ve done it a few times now and absolutely enjoyed it everytime.

There are a few things I am still scared of, I’m scared of getting out of my comfort zone. I will deal with it, by facing it head-on.

P.S.

This is my last post in the Bloganuary series, I absolutely loved blogging every day for the past 31 days. I would like to share my experience writing every day for 31 days, I will do that in a post in the coming days.

In the meantime, big thanks to all my readers, old and new, for following my ramblings all these past 31 days. You peeps were my inspiration, and you keep me going!

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