Take the plunge: Experience is a good lesson

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With my first blog post, I would like to share one of the first important lessons I have learnt in 2016. For a start, I'll give you some background of where this post is coming from: It is the first day of 2016 today, but ever since 2013 I have been researching blogging, social media marketing and search engine optimization because for a long time now, I've wanted to start a blog.

So why didn't I? It's pretty easy nowadays, right? Well yes, but mainly I haven't started a blog yet because of fear. What if no one even visits my blog? What if they don't like my posts? What if I can't think of good ideas for content? What if I make spelling mistakes, or my grammar is poor? In short - What if I fail?

But after the first day of my new year having been what it was, I realised that trying and failing isn't such a bad option after all. Think about it - If you try, you might fail. If you don't try, you fail by default. Maybe you'll fail if you try, but maybe you'll succeed. If you try, you've got a chance to either fail or succeed, but at least the chance to succeed is there because you created it by taking a chance. It takes courage to take chances, but it's what we must do to persue what we want in life. I have seen it over and over again; successful people are the ones who don't give up and who are willing to take a leap of faith to where they want to be instead of clinging to the illusion of security in remaining 

stagnant.

So, if I didn't start this blog today, I would not have risked failing and making a fool of myself. But you know what? I think it's worth a shot. This year, I want to share my thoughts and lessons with you and I truly, genuinly want your feedback. I want to know there is someone out there who read this and that hopefully it inspired you to do something you had previously been afraid of doing because you were scared you'd fail. On its first day, my blog is going to be rather primitive. I'll have to do social media and some nice graphics later. For now, I'll just have this post that I'm hoping you'll enjoy reading.

Is there something you've been scared of trying and taking “the plunge” for? Have you been scared of failing at something? How did you overcome that fear? What are some of the things you want to do this year? Please tell me about it in the comments.