Tiny Brave Steps. The Blog.

You're going to do it. You've decided. Once you feel ready. Once the nerves settle and you're more sure of yourself. Once the confidence shows up. So the thing waits. The invite sits in your drafts. The idea you haven't quite finished detailing remains half-done. You hesitate to say what you really want to do out loud. And you wait right there with it, for a feeling that hasn't come. Can I tell you something that will change how you see this? It isn't really about the idea.

I was eighteen, in my first year of college, on a bus to a choir performance when a friend asked me a question. “Tell me three things you like about yourself.” I couldn't name one. I remember feeling at a loss. Saying anything positive about myself was so foreign to me that I couldn't come up with anything. So she began naming things she saw in me. My compassion. My kindness. My singing. The way I listened. She could see those things. I couldn't. That conversation stayed with