What's holding you back?

We spend so much time scrolling, stressing, or just getting through the day—but how often do we pause to create? To try something new, to build a skill, to get our hands moving or our brains firing—not for perfection, but for the joy of learning and doing?

I want to challenge you today: Just do it. Try the thing. Grow the skill.
Pick up that crochet hook. Grab that recipe you’ve been saving. Plant a seed—literally or metaphorically. Build that shelf. Start that spreadsheet. Write the first sentence. Learn the tool. Try the technique. You don’t have to be good. You just have to start. I struggle with this so often, whether it be imposter syndrome or waiting until the time is "right". The biggest thing you have to do is start. 

And yes—it’s going to feel slow. There will be inefficiencies before there are efficiencies. That’s part of the process. It’s not a sign that you’re failing—it’s a sign that you’re growing. You’re training your brain, building muscle memory, and stretching into something new. That’s sacred work. Along with that stop saying you're trying you're doing the dang thing! 

Stop caring about being bad at it. Seriously. You don’t have to be the best. You don’t have to monetize it. Especially with today's culture, you do not only need to have skills for monetization, you can like something just for the sake of liking it (within reason of course). You don’t even have to finish it perfectly. Sometimes, you just need to do it anyway. The learning lives in the doing. 

We’ve gotten too used to outsourcing everything—to thinking everything we touch and operate around has to be professional-grade, aesthetic, or instantly share-worthy. But there is joy in making messy progress. There is power in reclaiming your own creativity. Everything isn’t going to be perfect immediately—and that’s okay. Those projects with the messy progress are often the ones you gain some of the most vivid memories, like "wow, that was tough, but I learned so much"

Fall in love with the process. Let yourself make ugly things. Let your hands get tired. Let your brain get quiet from all the noise and tuned into something real. You’ll be surprised what you uncover—not just in the project, but in yourself.

So here’s your reminder: You can learn anything. You can grow anything. You can build something from scratch—be it a garden bed, a loaf of bread, a new skill, or a better life.

Start today. Start small. But start.