Authentically Mine – Musings of a Restless Mind

The idea to start Authentically Mine came to me in a zap that made me jump in my seat. The zap was the result of months of introspective work and the intersection of several paths:

• I will no doubt get into this in more detail at some point, but I have done a lot of self-reflective work lately. I felt very stuck in many aspects of my life and was struggling with a lot of baggage that I didn’t realize I had. An existential/midlife crisis will do that.
• I was slowly reading a book of random essays. There was no central theme, just one author writing essays about whatever she wanted and compiling them together into one of her many bestselling books of essays. I had no idea that was a thing!
• I was really bored at work and trying to figure out what to do about it. Working on the same manuals for the same machines for years got old a long time ago. I struggle with a lack of freedom and creativity in my role. However, just the thought of starting over somewhere else after all this time induces anxiety.
• It feels like I am leaving out a path or two, but these are the biggies.

In the midst of grappling with all of this and much more, I was sitting at my desk at work one day in September rethinking life’s choices and wondering what I could do to improve my situation. Out of nowhere I literally jumped with the realization that I needed to start a blog.

The internal dialogue probably went something like this:

ZAP! I need to start a blog.

Woah, where did that come from? Seriously. Me write a blog. About what? Really? Huh. I guess I could look into that. I think I can do that. Of course, that’s perfect! I’m on it!

I’m a deep thinker with a mind that doesn’t stop. Not only will I have full creative freedom to write what I want and how I want, but I can also have a place to process all of the musings running through my head at any given moment.

I quickly got to work, and then had to set aside my blog for two months while I was busy volunteering for my son’s very “extra” high school marching band. Bandtober is now behind me and I had a week of vacation to recover from its final sprint.

As I break loose the gears and get comfortable writing freely, my hope for Authentically Mine is that it is a place where my words are my own. I look forward to interjecting some personality and humor into my posts as I get going.

Welcome to Authentically Mine: Random Musings of a Restless Mind. Thank you for joining me on my journey!