Adventures of Hilda The Sneaky Bitch

Do you have a voice in your head that tends to comment on everything? Sure you do. We all do. And mostly it’s no big deal – but heaven forbid we want to branch out and do something new. That’s when my ‘little’ voice goes nuts; it wants to keep us in a little box; nice and safe – but not very exciting.
I have named that voice.

Meet Hilda the Sneaky Bitch.

Hilda is a powerful force in my life; literally every time I want to try something new – big or small – she wants to convince me of the errors of my ways. And she’s sneaky about it; so sneaky that – even though I know her quite well by now – I still don’t always see her coming. For TWO YEARS I’ve had the idea of sharing my journey with her and for TWO YEARS I’ve done absolutely nothing about it.

Here’s what Hilda’s been telling me – “You don’t have time. Who would ever want to read about that? That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard! Everyone will laugh at you! Who do you think you are? You couldn’t possibly..” and on and on and on. No matter that I have spoken in front of hundreds of people about my ‘adventures’ with Hilda – and got tremendous feedback. No matter that I wasn’t out to become the best blogger ever to grace the internet… and yet, she stopped me dead in my tracks.

Last week she tried to convince me that I wouldn’t be able to come up with a single Hilda story to share. And wouldn’t you know it, in that moment I really couldn’t come up with anything. Not only was she still there – the very fact that she told me there were no more Hilda stories – pointed right back at her – gotcha – you sneaky bitch!

What have you been telling yourself personally or professionally that you couldn’t/shouldn’t do?