As I get into quilting, I'm coming to realize "Hey, I can sew!"
What does this mean? In the short term, that I can decrease my reliance on big box stores for items that neither fit or flatter. I can control my clothing choices if I take the initiative.
Then thinking about my initiative (and the complete and total lack thereof) I began to think about how this acceptance of "take whatever is best from the big box" mindset has come to dominate my life - certainly since college, possibly since the beginning. Oh sure, I SEE other choices scattered about and even ruminate about them, but in the end, they get tossed back into the "To Do At Some Later Point When Life Is Ideal" pile. Then I go back to the big box of things that I do not like and that do not fit and begin to futily rummage again.
Well, maybe the time IS now. If I can fit in quilting - with all its scraps, details, and complexities - why not start working on the business? Why NOT start creating the life I wish to have?
Why be afraid of failure? I fail every day when I show up at this worthless job. When I give into mediocrity. When I fall into bitterness, self-hatred, and despair. Wouldn't it be better, as Joyce Meyer said, to stumble and "fail forward" than to simply fail? I would certainly learn more for the journey. Baby steps along the right path...
I can control my destiny if I just take the initiative!
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