Hello 👋 it’s me. It’s been a hot, hot minute since I wrote a blog post so here we are getting back into it. It feels like over the past year and a half+ so much has changed and also nothing has changed at the same time. Overall, the foundations of my life have been consistent but my perspective, priorities, and general sense of myself and what’s important have changed quite a bit.
I’ve wanted to get back to this page for a while but couldn’t think of what to write about to get going again. Then, I heard something on a podcast the other day that that stuck with me — or at least the idea of it did — I can’t remember the exact wording. It was something like, stop making plans to make plans to do something or be someone. If you want to change your life or be someone different or try something new, stop thinking so much about it and just do it. This is the jist of it and at some point I’ll revisit the pod to get the exact language, but you get the idea. This struck home for me so hard because I feel like I’m constantly planning to start something or do something new and never actually just doing what I need to do. I don’t know if that makes sense to anyone else but it does to me. So, instead of planning to get back to blogging when the right idea comes to mind, I’m just going to dive right in even if I don’t have the perfect words to share.
This life isn’t a practice run, it’s the only one you get. I heard that somewhere else one time too but it’s a favorite when I try procrastinating things to no end. If I’ve learned anything in recent months, it’s to start doing things before the time is perfect, because that time won’t ever come.
Even as I write this and re-read it, I want to erase everything above and start over but I’m not going to. I want to get back to blogging on this page. I want to be more consistent with it. I want to stop second-guessing every single thing until I end up never doing anything at all. I want to stop marking recipes for later and actually just make them. I want to stop making plans to make plans with people and actually see them. I want to stop planning to be healthier and just be healthier. So here we are and that’s exactly what I AM doing.
Stay tuned.