The First Step

The first step towards Happiness is always the hardest. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be Happy?, Successful?, Inspiring?”, “Who am I to live the Life I always dreamt of, to be the person I always dreamt of being?”. Actually, who are you not to be?

Mum says that when I was a baby, she worried I wouldn't walk properly because I was limping on my right leg when I crawled. Apparently, it took me a long time to stand on my two feet and walk. Our first steps as children are definitely the hardest. We had no experience; we kept falling down and bumping against obstacles. However, after each failed attempt,  we instinctively put ourselves back up and went for another step. No matter how many times or how hard we fell, no matter how painful it was, we just kept trying and trying, until one day, we mastered this thing called Walking. We weren't discouraged by criticism of others or by all the failed attempts.

As children, we succeed at walking, chewing food, learning how to talk a new language and so many other vital things because of the following:

1) We didn't stop trying until we succeeded

and

2) We took that first step

It was that attitude of Curiosity, Adventure and Playfulness that guaranteed our success in our different enterprises. So, what are we doing now as adults, that we were not doing as children, to stop ourselves from taking that first step towards our happiness, our dream job, our dream relationship, or business or fitness level?

We fear criticism, we fear failing, not being good enough, what others others may say or think.

How to overcome this fear?. Well, that I will share with you next week, however, here it is a tip...Forget your Head and Listen to your Heart

The first step is always the hardest...and this was my first step, to create the first post of my new blog. That was hard!....well, actually, it wasn’t that bad.