Raise A Glass

Ok cool so I’ve got this new lease of confidence but now there’s a new problem: fear of the unknown. 

I come from a family of over achievers. My mum is a lawyer turned IT project manager, she started her career in IT when the internet was still a very new concept and now she’s a successful entrepreneur. She became self-employed, multinational speaker, author and general superstar all while being a single mum. My dad studied medicine in Poland when he could barely speak English let alone Polish. So, he studied a medicine degree while simultaneously learning Polish and is now a psychiatric consultant. Even my sister follows this trend, she did a GCSE early and got 100%. Let’s not even start on my grandparents or we’re going to be here forever. But needless to say when I said I come from a family of over achievers I wasn’t lying. 

Then there’s me. 

 

I’m not a fabulous go getter like my mum, I can’t speak 5 languages like my dad and I’m not super popular like my sister. At the heart of it I’m extremely basic. But now I’ve found writing and I’m good at it. I put words down on a page and it kinda works. 

Since posting my first blog I’ve had people asking me about where I see this blog going and to be honest I still have no idea. But now I’m ready to find out. For the first time in my life I’m putting myself out there, fully exposed where if I fail it’s going to be public. Unsurprisingly my new lease of self-confidence isn’t helping one bit. But it’s part of life. 

It’s weird how I’ve jumped off cliffs, white water rafted, nearly died a bunch of times and got lost many different times in many different countries; but it’s writing a couple of words on the internet that truly scares me. 

But let's raise a glass to my potential success, my potential failure but ultimately to the first time of properly putting myself out there. 

P.S. my glass is now lemon water instead of rosé...I’m on a diet 🙄🙄