Three weeks ago I made some new goals for making my life all about building communities. One of them was starting to brainstorm now about what my 33rd birthday would look like in November. About the same time I sent out a poll to find a time to pull some friends together to help me with this.
For the last about two weeks, I've had that poll in the back of my head and haven't done anything with it. The day that the most people could do my building's common room wasn't free. So I kept waiting to book something. What would I say in the message? How could I do it if this person couldn't make it?
Thing after thing kept popping into my head and the days kept ticking by. My lizard brain kept finding tricky ways to keep me stuck.
What I've realized is that some days my lizard brain wins. It can win the whole day or maybe even just a few crucial moments. Most of the time it doesn't even want me to know it won. It tries to remain under the radar, like it isn't even there.
It is though and it has been for me for the last couple of weeks. No more though (on this matter at least). What's gotten me to shake it? A reminder of the gifts we're each given. Our unique gift that we have to share and the fact that each and everyday we have to share it is a gift itself. It's our responsibility to keep sharing.