I'd love to be more confident in myself. Trust myself and my track record of figuring things out. That's the first thing I'm doubting when things get tough.
I'd like to get better at time management and sticking with things when the going gets tough, which is why I enjoyed this issue so much. You're so right: the way to be a writer is to write. Who would have thought? Not me sometimes! lol. And, getting more confident at knowing when I need to rest for selfcare and when I am just being lazy and need to get on with my projects... heh.
I'd like to stop questioning the value of my opinion and experience in helping others. I want to write a book about contracting, with women in mind, and help them enjoy a better working experience. Who am I to tell that story? Probably as qualified as anyone else if only I could believe that.
I love that idea of 300 words a day. I think if I can try to make more of a daily thing of writing it would be the dream but even if I aim smaller than that the showing up each day some how is better than once a week or even every other day. I am that once a week person at the moment and thats the only “proper time” i get but I need more to keep my head in it. I also need to be realistic.
My one thing I want more confidence in is putting myself out there. 🙌🏻 Substack has been great for it so far and I feel like connecting here has given my writing more confidence and purpose and I hope I can put my design self out there too.
I would also love to have the confidence that things will work out! I often give up early, because I have unrealistic expectations and I get the fear when what I need to do is keep going!
Love, love, love this, and delighted to have found you via Lucy Werner’s 45 outlets post (was actually going to suggest myself!) because of course Daisy is brilliant and also because she touches on so much that I’m passionate about too - combatting perfectionism, taking little steps forward to make a big difference. Fab, thank you.
I want to be more confident at aerials, and record myself more to see how cool it looks while I fumble through something. I also have been thinking a lot about 'perfection paralysis', and it's nice to see others are trying to shake it off.
Yay - it's live! And it was worth the wait. Thank you both for a lovely little Thursday morning read. I'll be nicking the idea of putting £3 a day into a savings account and also making little changes that all add up.
For the purpose of the comp... the one thing I want to be more confident in is my own ability to cope. With whatever. Life has thrown some MASSIVE FUCKING LEMONS at us as a family in recent months and whilst I've had that initial panic of "oh GOD how will I cope with this now!?", I've gone ahead and just... coped. So I need to give myself more credit and definitely show myself more compassion, but also feel more confident that I can actually do more than I ever anticipate being able to.
Belated response but this was great and I love Daisy’s approach. As a card carrying Virgo, ahem, perfectionist I know all too well how paralysing it can be to get stuff done and live your life!
For me I want to get more confident with enjoying the process. I have all these things I want to learn and try this year - and I get down on myself for not being great at them right away which is so stupid because I forget how long it took me to be good at the stuff I already do now. So getting confident with the journey, the enjoyment of said journey, and not hanging on the end result or an ‘achievement’ is my aim of 2024 🫠
I'd love to be more confident in myself. Trust myself and my track record of figuring things out. That's the first thing I'm doubting when things get tough.
I'd like to get better at time management and sticking with things when the going gets tough, which is why I enjoyed this issue so much. You're so right: the way to be a writer is to write. Who would have thought? Not me sometimes! lol. And, getting more confident at knowing when I need to rest for selfcare and when I am just being lazy and need to get on with my projects... heh.
I'd like to stop questioning the value of my opinion and experience in helping others. I want to write a book about contracting, with women in mind, and help them enjoy a better working experience. Who am I to tell that story? Probably as qualified as anyone else if only I could believe that.
Love this Ellen and Daisy!
I love that idea of 300 words a day. I think if I can try to make more of a daily thing of writing it would be the dream but even if I aim smaller than that the showing up each day some how is better than once a week or even every other day. I am that once a week person at the moment and thats the only “proper time” i get but I need more to keep my head in it. I also need to be realistic.
My one thing I want more confidence in is putting myself out there. 🙌🏻 Substack has been great for it so far and I feel like connecting here has given my writing more confidence and purpose and I hope I can put my design self out there too.
I would also love to have the confidence that things will work out! I often give up early, because I have unrealistic expectations and I get the fear when what I need to do is keep going!
Love, love, love this, and delighted to have found you via Lucy Werner’s 45 outlets post (was actually going to suggest myself!) because of course Daisy is brilliant and also because she touches on so much that I’m passionate about too - combatting perfectionism, taking little steps forward to make a big difference. Fab, thank you.
I want to be more confident at aerials, and record myself more to see how cool it looks while I fumble through something. I also have been thinking a lot about 'perfection paralysis', and it's nice to see others are trying to shake it off.
Yay - it's live! And it was worth the wait. Thank you both for a lovely little Thursday morning read. I'll be nicking the idea of putting £3 a day into a savings account and also making little changes that all add up.
For the purpose of the comp... the one thing I want to be more confident in is my own ability to cope. With whatever. Life has thrown some MASSIVE FUCKING LEMONS at us as a family in recent months and whilst I've had that initial panic of "oh GOD how will I cope with this now!?", I've gone ahead and just... coped. So I need to give myself more credit and definitely show myself more compassion, but also feel more confident that I can actually do more than I ever anticipate being able to.
Belated response but this was great and I love Daisy’s approach. As a card carrying Virgo, ahem, perfectionist I know all too well how paralysing it can be to get stuff done and live your life!
For me I want to get more confident with enjoying the process. I have all these things I want to learn and try this year - and I get down on myself for not being great at them right away which is so stupid because I forget how long it took me to be good at the stuff I already do now. So getting confident with the journey, the enjoyment of said journey, and not hanging on the end result or an ‘achievement’ is my aim of 2024 🫠