Get It Right

I’ve been eat up most of my adult life with the need to “get it right”. I don’t remember that being much of a thing for me as a child or young adult but it somehow grew deep roots in me later on. I remember my precious Mama telling me lots of times, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right”. And that is wise teaching. But that’s not the kind of “get it right” I’m talking about. This kind is a little more questionable. Maybe it crept in during my 10 years as a single parent and I felt the weight to “get it right” for my daughter and son. Or maybe it came from expectations when I entered the corporate world, which was never my plan. (Susie Homemaker want-to-be right here) Or maybe it came from… well I don’t know when or where it came from and that’s not the point anyway. The point is the need to “get it right” can drive you or paralyze you. It’s done both to me at times. And too many times it’s been the later.

With that in mind, why this topic today? Well on my mission to intentionally find and use my voice more directly, most visibly right now in this new blog thing, here’s where I am… DANG, there’s a lot to learn! As I disclosed in Blog # 1, I have not idea what to do but I will figure it out, and so I will! But take the “I don’t know what to do” challenge and overlay it with a dubious “get it right” mindset and golly jeepers, it will keep you up at night, (Yawn). It would be full on entertainment if you could hear my head conversations sometimes. I’m trusting I’m not alone but sometimes I have to just laugh out loud at myself and be very grateful it’s a private conversation.

So on this adventure, which it is, the goal is to keep going forward and celebrate even the small steps. Even if they are not the Best “right” steps, nevertheless they are steps. And I’m giving myself permission to claim all the Do-overs that will be needed and survive in the process. And definitely laugh along the way.

For now, I celebrate deciding on an blog host and platform, creating an actual blog site, adding content and creating an email address: UnleashingVoices@gmail.com. I’m overriding all the “get it right” thoughts for a later time but this is a start. One day I’ll get to the pretty pictures and fancy icons and the “high domain authority” and “SEO Rankings” stuff (I’m learning to speak a foreign language. Ha!) But all of this is the NOW step for a new and bigger mission being revealed. I’ll share more about that when the time comes. For now, I’m working to swap the questionable “right thing” mindset for the “next thing” mindset and trust I’ll get it right along the way. Thanks for coming along and you have permission to lovingly laugh out loud at me too.