Are You Camera Shy?

Hey, Happy April. A whole quarter of the year has now passed and what do we have to show for it ? How many memories or moments of importance have already passed unnoticed?

Perhaps you are the selfie queen, and every second is an opportunity to pull out the cell phone and capture the moment like a pro.

However, that's not me. I'm that friend you have that the moment someone says group pic, I automatically dive for cover, shoelace needs tied, cell phone is ringing, any excuse to avoid the shot.

So this month is a proper challenge. One that I am not looking forward to, but I am hoping that perhaps it will break the mould of my shrinking violet personality.

I hope that this challenge will help me to be less self conscious and embrace who I am and in doing so perhaps I will be letting you a little closer to the real me.

What is the challenge ? 30 days of selfies or pics that I am in. If you are really curious if I am actually going to follow through with this, follow me on instagram @tea_with_lei.blog

This is a total outside of my comfort zone type challenge, I am very anxious just thinking about it. Being present in the moment is something I talk about a lot, but I can't tell you all about it if I am not doing it too, so this is a way to be accountable to myself also.

To move forward in life no matter what direction, we all very often need to take that enormous leap of faith, take a step out of the comfort zone and embrace the situation that we perhaps feel embarrassed about. This is mine. Let me know in the comments below what your nemesis is. What do you fear most and are you going to be brave enough to face it ?

Exposing ourselves to that which we fear most is one step that we can take to break the cycle. Hiding from the experience that we fear most does not make it go away, if anything it makes us more curious. When we avoid our challenge or deny that it even affects us is a short term fix. We know deep down that eventually that feeling of anxiety and avoidance will eventually re surface.

Potentially we are making these issues worse than they actually are. We may be overthinking the situation, I know for me , I have a tendency to overthink just about every situation until I have myself convinced that it's a bad idea to even consider facing whatever head on.

The truth is - it's time for change. If not now then when? Life is too short to be hiding from my pattern of overthinking. In this situation the only thing that I have to fear is the opinions of others. I am me, love me or hate me I am not changing for anyone. What you see is what you get. Time to embrace who I am, time for me to love me, after all there is only one of me in the world. If I can't love myself how can I possibly expect anyone else to love me?

Let the challenge begin. wish me luck.

xx Lei

HOW YOU LOVE YOURSEL IS HOW YOU TEACH OTHERS TO LOVE YOU. -Rudi Kaur