It’s a holiday week and you KNOW you’re going to get THE question:

“So what are you up to?”

(which is honestly progress to “how’s work?” or “how’s the weather?” so let’s be thankful)

You know you haven’t been up to “nothing” and you’re up to something.

Maybe you’ve been working on a special project and it’s scary to share because you don’t have all the pieces figured out yet.

But you know you’re more than just the person that eat, sleep, works…

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Earlier this week, I was at a networking event for creatives, and a girl mentioned she was scared to start writing about her special project online.

Someone else chimed in with an interesting suggestion:

What if you wrote a post that said,

“Right now, I’m working on this.” Then the next post is “Right now, I’m working on this.”

I liked the suggestion because it doesn’t require you to have it all figured out before talking about it.

As we go into the holiday - I’m going to practice this “right now” response (because even after 6 years of writing online, I still get scared)!

Allows me to:

Tell people what I’m working on (without it being a grand declaration)
Practice saying it out loud
I may just find some of my biggest cheerleaders, supporters, collaborators and connectors to other people

But I never will if I don’t share it.

This holiday - instead of the “so what are you up to?” question being scary, it’s the perfect opportunity to share the special projects that that make it easier to get out of bed in the morning.