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PROMPTuesday #147: Proceed As If

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This Saturday, I’m auditioning for something where I have to get up in front of people and talk. Boy am I nervous. I’ve written before that my fortes are pen, paper, and the keyboard. Say my words? Yikes. Sure I did it once before, but before I even began to talk I stood shaking for a full sweaty minute. In front of a waiting audience. Now I’m putting myself up there again. And I think I’m going to try to be funny. Which is hilarious. Because I don’t do funny in person.

 

But I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

 

This is why I am doing something I am so uncomfortable doing: To push myself. To challenge my long-held belief that I “can’t.” To get up there. To shed labels of what I’ve told myself I am. To do it. To act as if. As if I CAN.

 

So I will.

 

What have you told yourself you can’t do, and have either done or plan to do?

 

Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments.

 

First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about it here. Want to see what’s been written in the past? Catch up on the PROMPTuesdays archive here.

 

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  1. Indigo says

    March 29, 2011 at 11:12 am

    Oh, this one’s easy. Vlog, I’ve never done one and I’m not sure if I will. I can’t hear my own voice, I worry how I’ll sound to others in video. In person? I still talk eloquently despite my deafness, so…maybe someday.

    Good luck with your presentation. I cry like a baby whenever I read somethign I’ve written, so I’m no help. (Hugs)Indigo

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  2. Smalltown Mom says

    March 29, 2011 at 11:56 am

    I did go parasailing at Lake Tahoe last summer.

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  3. nordicbet says

    March 30, 2011 at 6:17 am

    I know what you mean. I always find it easier to write than to actually say the words. Good luck to you. You’re right about shedding labels, about doing something we’ve always told ourselves we cant.

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  4. Ann's Rants says

    March 30, 2011 at 10:18 am

    I never in a million years set out to manage people or run my own business.

    Well surprise, surprise…

    Break a leg, Deb! You’ll be fantastic. xo

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  5. steph says

    March 30, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    I wrote a fair portion of my sister’s wedding ceremony…and then said the words on top of a mountain in Ojai in front of lots of people…and then pronounced them husband and wife. It was a huge push on so many levels, I’m so glad I did it.

    Not only a great way to push yourself, but also teaching your daughters courage.

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