I came across this string of words recently and it has turned out to be the nudge I needed to write my first post here on Charmed Life Goals. While this certainly isn’t my first time writing or even my first ever blog post – that happened way back when only nerds knew what a blog was – I finally recognize that this is something new and it requires every ounce of my bravery.
Why start this blog?
I can honestly say that I’ve been thinking about starting this blog for at least 10 years. Over the course of my life I’ve had several friends tell me to start a blog to share various pieces of knowledge and advice with others. The reason? Well you see, I’m that know-it-all friend. The one who knows about a lot of different things and whose advice often isn’t what you hoped to hear but most always what you need to hear. I’ve always felt a pull to not only figure things out for myself but to then also share the knowledge with my friends. Solicited or not.
You may be wondering what he hell took me so long, since I’ve supposedly got all this experience and knowledge and I like sharing it. The answer, I now realize, was FEAR. Plain and simple. I could tell you that I was focusing on advancing my corporate career, buying a home, earning several promotions and a 6 figure salary, completing two masters degrees simultaneously and a lot of other things that are all true but still just excuses. Today I can recognize and acknowledge that none of those facts actually prevented me from starting to write this blog sooner. Fear did. The same fear of failure that has been a constant companion throughout my life, as either a driving force or as shackles. In this case, it was shackles.
I wasted a lot of time thinking about what my blog’s focus should be and asking myself why anyone who doesn’t know me personally should read or care about what I have to say. Because of how much money I made doing my day job, I told myself that this blog would need to generate income in order to be worth my time. It didn’t matter that my day job felt soul sucking. I researched blogging as a business obsessively and jotted down lots of great ideas. After all, that’s what my two business degrees trained me to do.
Still, the fear of failure persisted because in the back of my mind I felt it wasn’t enough just to get these thoughts out of my mind and into the universe. I needed to know I’d get acceptance from others, especially those who knew my real life background. The more I thought of this blog with my trained business mind, the less desire I felt to actually do it. The reason, I believe, is that the idea for Charmed Life Goals came from my soul, not my mind.
Why the name Charmed Life Goals?
The name Charmed Life Goals came to me over 2 years ago. At the time I remember feeling a strong connection to the idea of living a “charmed life” but it has even more meaning to me as I’ve recently started going through what I feel is a period of spiritual awakening and growth.
Charmed Life: a life of seemingly guaranteed good fortune or invulnerability; a life unaffected by dangers and difficulties, as if by magic
Charmed Life Goals will focus on all facets of living this life to our fullest potential – the things we all think and worry about regularly as well as the things we can so easily lose sight of when we’re caught up in our day to day struggles.
My name is Nicole and I’m intent upon learning and living my best life, as well as sharing what I learn with others along the way. I hope this blog will facilitate that. I promise that I’ll always write from my soul, I’ll only share info I believe to be true/valuable and that my intentions will always be positive.