Challenging Oneself

I'm a pretty shy quiet person. I try to pretend not to be when I'm around people, but at heart I really am. I'm also self conscious. Put these together and blogging becomes a bit more challenging, but challenges are good for us; they help us grow & learn.

Anytime I think of posting my thoughts online, I'm definitely going outside of my comfort zone. Blogging is a challenge for me because I'm concerned what people will think, especially people I know. So, with that in mind, the first thing I want to do is become more comfortable with blogging by just writing, knowing people may read it. After I become more comfortable with this, I'll hopefully start posting more interesting topics.

This is also a good challenge to keep up and improve my writing skills.

I should be careful while I'm getting comfortable, to not treat it too much like a journal. Yet another challenge: changing my writing content from just my thoughts and happenings into informative content. I really enjoy writing/typing in a journal, so this will also be a good challenge.

It might not be all bad to put my fears out there in a journal. Maybe I'm not the only one and I could help someone, letting them know they're not the only one.

I think this may be more difficult than loosing weight. It may sound crazy, but that came rather easy to me; I didn't really have to think about it. While I agree I had a pretty big part in it, I also believe God had a big part as well. I honestly don't think I could have done it with out Him. Anyway, it seems to take a lot more thinking to blog than to loose weight.