Give Your Best Life
What the heck am I doing? This is the question I constantly ask myself, especially as I write this first blog post for a blog, I’m not even sure what it is or what it’s going to be. But I do know that something is calling me to do it. Do you ever feel that way? Like your being pushed into a direction that you aren’t sure where you’re going? Over the last couple of years or so I’ve had this urge to create something. Something of my own, where I’m the boss and have the last say. I’m so grateful to be able to use my creativity in my job but I need more. I need to not be confined by boards, bosses, or regulations. That is the only thing I am sure of when writing this. I need something that I can poor my true authentic self into. To talk about the things, I want to talk about. To share the experiences, I’ve had in the hopes of creating connection, community, and helping someone else. As I started to explore and open myself up to the idea of what this could be, I did a lot of question asking. Mostly to myself and a few good friends and when I did, I knew putting myself out into the world in a way I never have before would be scary. It would force me to be more vulnerable, which I’m not great at, and it would push me to ask for help, which I’m even worse at. Being a mother to my son Grey has definitely forced me to do a lot of things out of my comfort zone so I’m starting to get used to the idea. At least enough to over two years ago, secure a website domain and reserve the name on every social media outlet I cared to.
Give Your Best Life. This thing I really have no idea what it is or what it will be has been looming in the background for over two years. I’ve tried to figure out exactly what it was I was going to do but it’s kept me in this weird limbo state, and so, I’m finally removing the barrier and just letting go of any ideas of what this is, and embracing the unknown and jumping in before I see what’s to come. What I do know is that I want to give my best in life. Give the best to my family, my friends, my work, my community, and myself. Give Your Best Life is a play on the popular saying, live your best life. Written on one too many Instagram memes now seems to have become a bit too shallow. Of course, we should all want to live our best lives, and for others to do the same but I want more than that. I want to give my best life to this world so that it’s a better place. And that those around me are better. And that I’m better. I have this notion that if I give my best life, I’ll live my best life and everyone else can too.
So until I figure this all out, you can probably count on content about raising a toddler, navigating the world with a child who has special needs and all the things I use to equip myself for everyday life.
Thank you for reading this or skimming it enough to see these last words. I hope that together we can learn, grow, and make one heck of a giving tribe. And if we know each other in real life, which lets be honest we probably do as no one who doesn’t know you reads your first blog post, hold space for me and bear with me as I navigate this new creative outlet.
You da best!