Writing – one of my biggest Empowerment Tools

I was thinking about what to write about for today’s blog post. I had a couple of thoughts in mind, one of them about my son and some behavior challenges that he is having, but then I thought about it more and how it relates to empowerment and I realize that his behavior challenges are affecting us all. So it was a little too big for me to sit down and just write easily so I decided to save that for another day and think about it more clearly. Making a choice. That’s what it’s about.

A couple of other thoughts in my mind floating around, and it was as I was going down the stairs in my house with my little bag of pre-workout tricks in my hand that’s holding onto the banister, I swear it’s like a circus act, but I’ve got it well oiled, And I was thinking, do I write about this? How much I have to go through to get to the gym in the morning? And how empowering it is for me to share how I figured it out and I’m always refining it so I’m not a danger to myself or to anyone else?

It would be a possibility, but maybe another day. I’ll make that choice and say no for today. And when I got down the stairs, my mom, who lives downstairs, said, “it’s early.“ She said it with a kind of question mark at the end, And I said no I’ve got stuff to write about. And that was it, I was gone like a cricket in the night. And there sure are a lot of them out at night. Don’t really hear them too much during the day, but it’s a pretty normal part of my world now up early in the morning. I was up early before, but this I think it’s obscene to most.

No my mom wasn’t complaining that I had woken her up, it was just that she was realizing that I was up earlier than normal, which would be about four thirtyish. It wasn’t too much earlier but to her the perception was that I might have set my alarm to early by accident. She wasn’t complaining by any means.

It was then that I realized with the topic of today’s blog post today. Only when I was entering the garage. It would be about the importance of blogging to me and how empowering it is.

All throughout my life, I’ve kept a notepad by my bed, I even had a pretty cool lit up pen to write down my ideas at night. It seems like my mind is always running. Sometimes it seems like it’s running to nowhere with a lot of uncontrolled thoughts.

But now I’m shifting gears and using all of that energy in my brain to kind of funnel it and make use out of it

I especially am trying to figure out what makes me so motivated and pretty positive to others. I also realize that it is to myself that I appear this way, never letting things get me down.

A lot of it has to do with how I was brought up, in A household run by strong women, my mother and my grandmother also there to help raise me.  I was lucky to have these strong female figures in my life have a positive outlook on life and never really let me see that anything would take them down.  I’m pretty sure that seeing that had a huge impact on me and how my world affects me.

As I got older, and MS came into my life, I was dealt the biggest challenge yet. How could I live with MS, effectively manage it and overcome obstacles in my way.

When I was diagnosed at 36, my world came crashing down. I was depressed and waking up every day telling myself that this was just another day of suck. My world sucked, and how could this happen to me?

Years later, I would write different blogs at different points in my life, I would journal, and I would really get my thoughts out. It would help me because it was like they were stuck up there in my head. And my mind would be rolling around all the time not really figuring things out. I didn’t have anything laid out in front of me to have a plan.

I even took on a course on writing a bestseller and a weekend. I follow the course step-by-step, and did write a bestseller, mind you it took me a little bit longer than a weekend. But it did become an Amazon bestseller in my category, and I became an author. No, make that best-selling author. That was pretty damn empowering. That was because of my writing.

When my hand writing started to get affected because of weakness in my right hand and holding a pen, my whole penmanship has even changed and even my signature is a little sloppy. I’m working more on writing with my left hand, but however would I write again? My pin to the paper what is the way out of my head for all the thoughts that I had. And I have a lot of thoughts, especially big picture looking at things. How was I ever to get it down?

Fast forward to about a month ago, when I started this blog up after reading mind hacking, by Sir John Hargrove, Helping me to realize that if I was going to change my life and any aspect of it, even writing, it was going to come from me. I would have to hack my own mind and make myself realize that there had to be a way to do it. Especially since the author said that he had a blog and it just happened that people started following him and finding him. That’s how he started his audience.

Then I realized when I was a vocalist in my career, I didn’t have an audience overnight. I even had to brush up on music theory to be able to have a hand in my arrangements with my band and never let anyone have a hand up on me in any part of my career. I could do it myself.

So why couldn’t I figure out a way to Blog‘s now? If it was an issue of hand writing, then find a way to either fix your handwriting or get your voice out on audio. That’s it.

At first when I started this blog I would just voice record and then send it to rev.com to have them transcribe it. Because I don’t make any money on this blog, it’s ad free, it didn’t warrant the expense.  I didn’t give up. I tried to find another way.

I had already opened up the wordpress.org account, and I tried writing on the website. But then I remembered from back in the day, that you never do your content creation on the web. It could go down. The Wi-Fi signal may be weak.  It’s just a very poor way of managing things as you create. Plus there is no way to save it if anything happens on the blog.

So I tried Google docs, and voice recording with the microphone button, and it would transcribe what I was saying into text. It did a decent job. Some funny things happen that make you laugh when it’s recording so if you say and it thinks it’s something else. But it gets a pretty good idea to start with. As I’m dictating this now it thought I said Adam dictating this now. But then he corrected it. So I kind of just have to watch. It’s a pretty good cost versus having someone else do it.

Then all I have to do is copy and paste it into a post on WordPress, and either publish it or save it as a draft.

There is also an image upload, but it was more important for me to get my thoughts out.

Being able to free my mind of all the good stuff that I want to share that helps make me a better person and stay empowered as a woman with a chronic illness like MS is huge. By the way MS always comes out in dictation as a mess or I’m S.

I’m sharing this with you today because this writing that I am sharing with you is really a big part of my empowerment. It starts my day off on the right foot, it is now 4:50 AM, and I am parked right in front of the gym, where I need to be. It pleases me in the right frame of mind, because I saw an example of what empowers me, and I feel like I am sharing some thing that might change someone’s life. For the better. So I thank you.

I encourage you to get your thoughts out of your head so that you can see them for what they are. Makes sense out of them. Your thoughts are real, they are not floating bits of information to never be captured, they are valuable. And if you can’t put pen to paper, like me, then find another way to get them down. But you deserve to have a voice. And I’d love to hear it. Leave a comment below for me . I’m not just writing, but I’m listening, too.