I recently was on BlogHer and saw a challenge to post on my blog every day during the month of April. I took that challenge; however, I already missed one post. Today I will explain why I missed that post and will post twice on my blog to make up for it…
People challenge themselves in many different ways. Some jump off cliffs, sky dive, or run marathons. Others continue their educations and receive doctorates, work their asses off at work to be promoted, or work full time while spending all their free time volunteering. All of these are great. I am a big believer in a challenge.
I wish I trusted a parachute enough to sky dive. I wish I had the endurance to run a marathon. Since I don’t have those things, I challenge myself in other ways. I challenge myself mentally instead of physically.
For example, I am afraid of talking in front of people thus I chose a job speaking in front of people daily as a teacher. Years ago I was very self-conscious of my body so I chose to begin belly dancing and performed in public a couple times.
I took on a new challenge yesterday so instead of posting on my blog like I whole hearted meant to…I was just trying out aerial yoga. If you haven’t heard of it then join the club. I didn’t know anything about it until I saw a woman talk about it on the www.dhcskincare.com site (click on customer spotlights). I was on that site because I use the products religiously and I also was featured as their Customer Spotlight last month. It is basically yoga and a bit of cirque de soleil mixed together. It looks exciting and fun!
The problem is that I don’t trust very easily. I don’t trust roller coasters and have never ridden them. When on a plane, I constantly think something will go wrong with the plane. Daily, I check my tires to make sure they don’t look flat. I also don’t trust people but that is for another day.
The class was challenging in more ways than one. I had to trust that the fabric would hold me. I had to trust that what the instructor was telling me would actually work because if not, I could fall flat on my face. Surprisingly, the hardest part was trusting in myself that I could do it. She had us upside down, hanging by the fabric and our legs. We were doing a sort of back flip wrapped in fabric. At one point we had the fabric around our waist and swinging while our body was in a ball (as if we were doing cannon balls into the water). It was completely out of my comfort zone and I cannot wait to go back and make myself discover what my body and mind really can do.
I apologize for missing my first post of my blog challenge yesterday, but a more mental challenge was up for the taking and I took it. Now on to the next challenge….
I wish I trusted a parachute enough to sky dive. I wish I had the endurance to run a marathon. Since I don’t have those things, I challenge myself in other ways. I challenge myself mentally instead of physically.
For example, I am afraid of talking in front of people thus I chose a job speaking in front of people daily as a teacher. Years ago I was very self-conscious of my body so I chose to begin belly dancing and performed in public a couple times.
I took on a new challenge yesterday so instead of posting on my blog like I whole hearted meant to…I was just trying out aerial yoga. If you haven’t heard of it then join the club. I didn’t know anything about it until I saw a woman talk about it on the www.dhcskincare.com site (click on customer spotlights). I was on that site because I use the products religiously and I also was featured as their Customer Spotlight last month. It is basically yoga and a bit of cirque de soleil mixed together. It looks exciting and fun!
The problem is that I don’t trust very easily. I don’t trust roller coasters and have never ridden them. When on a plane, I constantly think something will go wrong with the plane. Daily, I check my tires to make sure they don’t look flat. I also don’t trust people but that is for another day.
The class was challenging in more ways than one. I had to trust that the fabric would hold me. I had to trust that what the instructor was telling me would actually work because if not, I could fall flat on my face. Surprisingly, the hardest part was trusting in myself that I could do it. She had us upside down, hanging by the fabric and our legs. We were doing a sort of back flip wrapped in fabric. At one point we had the fabric around our waist and swinging while our body was in a ball (as if we were doing cannon balls into the water). It was completely out of my comfort zone and I cannot wait to go back and make myself discover what my body and mind really can do.
I apologize for missing my first post of my blog challenge yesterday, but a more mental challenge was up for the taking and I took it. Now on to the next challenge….