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I have read about people who believe in doing something that scares them every day.<\/p>\n

I do not have time for that.\u00a0 Also, it sounds super stressful.\u00a0 That is a lot of things to be scared of.<\/p>\n

But I do believe in doing something that scares me from time to time.\u00a0 Heck, it’s half the reason I got into triathlons.\u00a0 They still scare me a little bit, but they’re also fun. Sort of like rollercoasters, I guess.<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned it before, but I sing in a choir.\u00a0 And usually, our soloists are paid professionals, but for the Christmas concert series, we have little solo opportunities.\u00a0 I have never auditioned before because let’s be honest, I’m not good enough, comparatively speaking.\u00a0 My choir has a number of members who are trained musicians.\u00a0 And I have studied voice, but not as extensively as some of these people.<\/p>\n

But I’m also not bad.\u00a0 And it wasn’t the idea of standing up and performing in front of a group that scared me.\u00a0 It was the idea of standing up and being compared to these other musicians that made me nervous.\u00a0 I like to be good at things, and when I’m not good, I don’t really have the desire to put that out there and make it obvious.<\/p>\n

So I wasn’t going to do it.\u00a0 Then I decided, what the heck.\u00a0 Why not.\u00a0 Worst case, I don’t get the solo.\u00a0 No big deal.<\/p>\n

I don’t actually know how this story ends.\u00a0 I won’t know til next week (probably) who got the various solos, but I’m not holding my breath.\u00a0 Either way, I got up there and did it and held my own.\u00a0 And that was the point.\u00a0 Taking to a friend after the auditions,\u00a0 she was there for the same reason – just to force herself to do it.\u00a0 She didn’t care about the result, she was just happy with how the evening had gone.<\/p>\n

So regardless of the outcome, sometimes sucking it up and doing something scary is worth it just the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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