Too often we doubt ourselves and don't give ourselves enough credit and let our insecurities dictate our next move.

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When I sat back and questioned how I could get more eyes onto my own blog I knew I had to get out there and jump into the community. I had sat in on many Discord hangouts and eagerly listened as people shared there most recent content with the group

I wanted to share my own post with the group. I knew that would give me some more exposure and could potentially grow my own following but that heavy feeling of self-doubt crept in. I didn't do it. I let the fear take over and lost the opportunity to have 27 fresh eyes on my post.

Moving forward I promised myself I would just bite the bullet and get on voice and share my writing! I would love to see more engagement on my posts and have people leave their feedback. "just fucking do it, @mumma-monza!", I told myself.

I saw the perfect opportunity to share at the #PYPT - Promote Your Post Thursday with @shawdowspup and I could also earn some Shade tokens for sharing. I would be crazy if I didn't!

Again I eagerly sat listening in to people in the community sharing their posts. Some people super confident and some people just as nervous as me. "Just fucking do it!", I put my name in and nervously waited for my turn.

The post I had decided to share was a little cheeky, but I wanted to share it because of all the posts I had made that week it was the one that showed my usual writing style. But I had also written slight profanities and used all different names for genitals....was it too much?

My name was called....my heart started racing and I could feel a tremor in my throat and an overwhelming sense of absolute fear shot through me. I quickly typed a brief description with the link saying sorry I couldn't talk. I was so disappointed in myself.

Then out of nowhere, I type, "ok, I can come online" using all the courage I have inside of me bravely hitting talk and saying "hello". But there was a problem. Nobody could hear me! There were laughs and it appeared that my post was well received in the chat and I quickly went from nervously saying "hello" to screaming "hello...hello...hello" into my mic. Then just like that, the next person was asked to present.

The lovely @thekittygirl offered her assistance after the show to help me get all rock and rolling and enable me to be able to do voice and had me up and running in no time.

And you know what?!?

I just fucking did it! I said "hi" and I didn't just stop there....I loved connecting with people on the platform in a whole new way. Pretty sure there were even sometimes I accidentally overspoke others lol.

So there it is folks! "Just fucking do it!" My very first #thoughtfulpost which I plan on continuing to write from now on every Thursday. I hope today's post inspires you to just do it, face your fears and do it...no regrets! A big thank you to @wesphilbin for the inspiration it was a pleasure meeting you at the #PYPT hangout!

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