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Taking a Risk

By May 29, 2017December 6th, 2023Advocate, Caregiver, ePatient, Musician, Written Only
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OMG, I’m upgrading my website. I started the blog almost 5 years ago setting up the website with help from my friends Eric and Jodi (this is my 305th post). Now I want more from the website. I’m adding two pages: Portfolio to share my articles, guest posts, interviews, and projects. How Can I Help You? For topics we care about and related resources. I’m determined to create it myself – much like my wife and I built a house – seriously ignorant, reading instructions, tutoring, advice, and making significant mistakes while putting one foot in front of the other persistently. Learning something completely new is a frustrating gas. Frustrating until you learn a bare minimum of the language, get the right tools, building a support team, and finding the growing mindset of I can do this!? Frustrating when you mess up big time – like a couple of days ago when I unknowingly loaded 13 sample posts with my new theme and they went out to all of you looking like spam. (Thanks for letting me know and hanging in there with me.) A gas when you stumble upon or are pointed toward a solution, when you can find the solution a second time, when you can start to see the creation, and when someone else appreciates it. Gosh, this sounds like living or supporting someone with a chronic illness, living in another country or community, playing music, going to school, or starting a new job.

A colleague, Becky White, wanted to better advocate for her child with medical challenges and became a nurse. She wanted to better advocate for her patients and teammates and got an MBA. New languages, new cultures. Phew! My massage therapist works with young people on the margins teaching them languages and skills to better manage inside the margins.

All of you do it sometime. It’s frustrating and a gas. Innovation, new solutions to old problems, and empathy come from this ironic frustrating-gas puzzle.

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