The other day, I took a leap and joined the Be Brave Project. I took up the challenge to do one brave thing a day. That’s it, just one little brave thing.

I posted this on my blog, and that’s where I put the banner, but my blog isn’t always the place for me to discuss how I finally opened up a bank account down here… it just doesn’t fit with what my blog is about. But 43T is the perfect place for me to discuss my brave thing for the day, or decide if it really is brave.

Like for instance, today. Today, I have decided that my brave thing was to make a list of 100 Things to Do to Live a Creative Life and then post it to my blog. Was it really brave? I don’t know. It’s something that I do, it’s a natural act for me, to think about creativity and to share what I know. But even now, I feel the need to defend my audacity at making some sort of definitive list of how to live life creatively. I don’t need to talk about how I have made art for 30 years or written for 25 or run workshops for 18 or got a degree in teaching and how people learn 10 years ago and have been working on my creativity curriculum for the last 7 years with my friends. See, look at that, even now I am still defending my right to say what I said, despite the fact that I know anyone who is on this journey has a right to say what it means to live a creative life and how they achieve it.

This is a good place for me to work through what it means to be brave and to hold myself to my commitment to doing one brave thing a day.

One of the things I like about this project is that it is up to me to decide what is brave, how long I am committed for, what it all means… which is as it should be, because it’s my life. But that means I need a place to address these intricacies.

I get the feeling that this could be a really important, life changing challenge. Any time you face your fears, the world trembles. Or maybe it’s just YOUR world that trembles. What would happen to my life if my fears did not stop me? There would not be boundaries.

It’s a scary thought. What about you? Are you ready to face your fears head on? Are you willing to Be Brave?

Wanna Be Brave with me?