https://dev.jennaherbut.com/the-importance-of-showing-up/ Make Your Life Sparkle Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:11:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 https://dev.jennaherbut.com/the-importance-of-showing-up/#comment-62 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:52:10 +0000 http://dev.jennaherbut.com/?p=2028#comment-62 I’m going through this as I type. I’m sitting here, fighting with myself to get ready and leave the house. I’m in my very first art show this weekend! EVERY single fear-based excuse on your list in racing through my head right now…well, no. Not the cat one, but only because I don’t have a cat either! This is my main issue: I don’t feel like an artist! To be quite honest, I’ve never described myself as such. It makes me super uncomfortable. This is weird, right? Whenever I think of artists in general, I think of people like my husband…who can turn a blank Illustrator file into a piece of magic…or all the AMAZING folks from Make It who have honed their crafts. So! Thank you, Jenna, for your post today because I AM “enough at this very moment.” I needed to be reminded of this.

]]> https://dev.jennaherbut.com/the-importance-of-showing-up/#comment-61 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:55:47 +0000 http://dev.jennaherbut.com/?p=2028#comment-61 I have to say that this article was SOOOOOOOOOOO what I needed to hear! I pass up an insane amount of opportunity because I “just don’t feel like leaving my house”. I have been working on this in my own life and have forced myself to do things that I don’t want to do, and, you know what, usually they turn out to be the most fun, inspiring and motivating things at that point in my life. I just started going to school (at 32 years old) and it took EVERYTHING in me to get up and go to the initial admissions meeting and it has taken every ounce of persistence in my soul to continue going to all the admissions meetings and jump through all of the burning rings of fire just to get into the school and now to show up at class every week. (I am only on week 2, lol) but despite the fact that I am walking about 10 miles/ day to and from school and the fact that I have been so depressed I really don’t even want to get out of bed let alone leave my house and the fact that I am up until like 4 am just to do homework becuz getting it done while my 1 year old is awake doesn’t happen without extreme frustration and sometimes ripped up or scribbled on projects, I am doing it! I haven’t met any people yet, but I also haven’t been ballsy enough to put myself out there and talk to anyone, but the first step is showing up and that one I have actually been doing, for probably the first time in my life.

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