I want to be a Christian lifestyle blogger.
I can spend hours upon end reading the SoulScripts blog by Jordan Dooley or ‘Girl Wash Your Face’ by Rachel Hollis, and pinning motivational quotes, and studying scripture, and giving advice to my girlfriends, and decorating my room, and editing pictures and videos, and writing down my life goals, and doing yoga, and coming up with cute date ideas, and dreaming so big that I can’t even see it all. I would LOVE to write about all of this stuff that I could spend hours doing in a blog and then sharing it with the whole world to see. I would LOVE to create this powerful girl-tribe that’s filled with confidence and encouragement and giggles and coffee. That’s one of my biggest goals (key word one.)
Ever since I could talk I’ve been dreaming big and setting goals. Y’all, I’m really freaking good at setting goals, and making dream boards, and listening to podcast about chasing your dreams, and reading books about becoming a lady boss…. But here’s the thing… I’m really bad at going after my goals and chasing my dreams.
I want to be a Christian lifestyle blogger… but I don’t want to write.
I haven’t worked on my blog in a year and all this time I’ve been telling myself it’s because I’m out of content, I don’t have any more ideas. Are you kidding me?!? Hannah Roebuck… out of ideas?!? Of course I’m not out of ideas! I spend hours journaling every day and coming up with new content everyday just by simply living!
Here’s the truth… I think the reason I don’t want to write anymore is because I’m terrified. What am I scared of? Failing or Succeeding? I think it’s a little bit of both to be honest. Yes, I’m afraid of failure. I’m afraid that I’m going to work as hard as I can only to continue writing to an audience of my family and facebook friends instead of building a brand and an audience and a community of girls across the world who just want to live the way God designed us to live.
But… I’m also afraid of success. Weird, huh? I know… But I can just see it now, my audience starts to grow, my blog becomes more popular and then what? Now I’ve got to work harder, I can’t disappoint anyone, I have to perform perfectly in everything I do and everything I post. Sometimes success scares me even more than failure does. What could this become? Am I ready for that? But honestly, are we ever ready for it? Were you really ready to move off to college, to get married, to move states, to have kids? But you did it anyways. That’s what I’m doing right now. I’m writing because if I don’t start right now than when will I ever.
You know that thing you tell yourself every time you want to start a diet or a new workout plan, “I’ll start tomorrow.” Yeah… I hate to break it to you sister, but that’s a lie. There is no better time than right now. What are your goals? I know you have them, even if you’re a CEO of a huge company, you’ve still got goals, even if you’re retired and living in Hawaii, you’ve still got goals. Write them down. Even if you don’t think you have goals just start by writing the words ‘BIGGEST DREAMS’ on the top of a piece of a paper, make some bullets and go to town, write it ALL, yes, all of it, even the one about meeting Beyonce.
Now you’ve identified your goals, that’s the easy part, here’s what you’re going to do next. Flip the page and write at the top ‘ACTION PLAN.’ Now go back and look at the goals you’ve written on the previous page. What are the first steps you’re going to take to accomplish them? Not the monumental jumps no, the first little baby step you’re going to stumble into in order to initiate this dream of yours. No, that’s not even the hardest part… Are you ready for this sister? The next step is a doozy…
Go do it. It’s as simple as that, yet it’s SO hard to do but you know what, it’s exactly what I’m doing right now by writing the first blog I’ve written in over a year and I can tell you from experience, nothing too terrible has happened yet, nothing too scary, and I did it. Do you know how that feels? IT FEELS SO FREAKING GOOD!!
So get your butt off of the couch and stop watching other people succeed. Stop believing the lie that you aren’t capable of that and go take that first step into living your dream life because It is so much closer than you have ever imagined. God gave you these talents and these dreams for a reason so stop letting them go to waste. Chase them down and make them your reality. I would LOVE to hear from you guys and what your goals are and the first step you are going to take to achieve them! Let’s hold each other accountable and let’s go out and take the world by storm! You Go Girl.
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