When Did You Stop Believing?

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…

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The Secret Power of Reading

"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…

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The Scariest Yes I’ve Ever Received!

"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…

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Welcome to Discarded Anxiety…Finally!

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…

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