I Was Afraid to Start This Blog—for 10 Years

For the past 10 years, I’ve wanted to run a blog. Not casually. Not someday. I really wanted it.
I bought the domain. Picked out names. Designed the layout in my head a hundred times. And yet… I never posted.

Why?

It wasn’t lack of time.
It wasn’t lack of desire.
It wasn’t lack of knowledge.

It was fear.
Fear that it wouldn’t be as good as I imagined.
Fear that I’d start and fail.
Fear that people wouldn’t care.
Fear that I wouldn’t care after a while.

That fear paralyzed me for a decade.

Until now.

This post, right here, is my first step in walking through that fear. Not around it—through it.

How did I do it?

I started by facing the fears directly. I wrote them out. Here they are:

• What if I’m not a good writer?

• What if my blog doesn’t “take off”?

• What if people don’t like it?

• What if I run out of things to say?

Writing these down got them out of my head and into the open. And something interesting happened:
They didn’t seem so big anymore. They seemed… manageable. Like realizing being an adult is just a series of prioritizing things you care about.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of dying. A reasonable fear to have. However, after digging into it more - I realized I more-so had a fear that I never lived. That has motivated me to go out and do all the things I have wanted to do and live the life that I can always be happy with.

That’s the power of naming the fear.

If you’re stuck, try this:

1. Write down your fears. Every last “what if.”

2. Ask yourself: What’s one small action I can take that doesn’t involve giving up?

Each step is like handing your future self a sword. Soon, you’ve got a full toolbelt to slay that seven-headed dragon called fear.

Fear won’t vanish. But now, you’ll have a map. And a way forward.

This blog may not be perfect. But it’s here. I’m here. And that’s more than enough to start.

If fear’s been holding you back from starting something, try writing it down. Then take one small step anyway. And if this helped you, share it with someone else who needs a push 🤙.