I am a fan of Jeff Goins. He wrote the book, The Art of Work, which I read it as part of this 30 Day Reading Challenge. I also started following his blog where he wrote about his 3-year-old son Aiden, believing he is a superhero with super powers. Even with Jeff and his wife Ashley explaining the differences between real life and make-believe, Aiden still totally believes he is a superhero. Jeff then goes on to ask the following question: "Do you remember…
"I HATE Reading!" I have yelled, whispered, written and even thought this simple sentence a million times in my life. For as long as I could remember, I've always hated reading. I hated reading assignments, books from school, books mom made me choose from the library... I hated reading anything. Why? I viewed it as a waste of time. I craved experiences and figuring things out on my own. Reading got in the way of that. So I did my best to avoid reading…
Letting go of the past or letting go of someone is difficult. But what if holding on to the past is keeping you from moving forward?
"Hi Aaron, great story! I'd love to share it..." I just kept reading that phrase, over and over again but I couldn't believe it. I just kept thinking to myself… He wants to share something I wrote as a guest post on his blog. He wants to send it to his list of 20,000 email subscribers, 24,000 Facebook friends, and have it available for the 250,000 times a month someone looks at his blog? “Whoa”, I thought to myself. "That’s a lot of…
This blog almost never existed. I've been wanting to start a blog to help people dealing with social anxiety for a long time. Much longer than anyone knows, even those closest to me. But I always ran into two problems... What would I say, and who would want to listen to me? With those fears in the forefront of my mind, I've started and deleted 5 different blogs over the last 5 years. I didn't think what I had to say was valuable, and I didn't think…