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If You Embrace Your Wildness, Then You Can Create Beyond Your Dreams
Lock Your Inner Critic Up and Watch Your Wild Self Create
“We Settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts.” John O’Danohue
I am terrified of myself. It is not that I don’t like who I am, or that I judge myself harshly. I am perfectly ok with being imperfect. But I am wild. Letting the wildness out is frightening, because I don’t know exactly what is in there. I feel powerful. That terrifies me.
Why do I feel powerful? I only have a small handful of followers. It is likely that any one article I write will have less than 10 views. I am not an influencer. Except that I am. People who know me come to me for advice. Not only that, they usually love what I have to say. It helps them.
This is powerful even if it is only affecting one person’s life. They listen to me, try what I say, SO I BETTER HAVE IT RIGHT. It is terrifying that something I say could mess up someone else’s life. It is a lot of responsibility, yet, if I know helpful things, and keep them shut-up inside myself, refusing to share, what kind of person does that make me? Not the kind I want to be. I want to be generous. Sometimes generosity is…
