My first brave activity for 2014
In 9 days I will be speaking about My Year of TED at TEDxHobart. This is a huge thing for me, as I'm sure any regular readers of this blog would understand all too well. And, as I'm sure you all suspect, I could talk underwater with a mouthful of marbles about the experience for hours.But, I don't have hours (or marbles) and this is a much more public stage than Disruptive was last year. I only have a maximum of 18 minutes on the TEDx stage, so trying to work out the important bits, what I want to make my Idea worth spreading has been a difficult task.I feel I need to explain why I did the project, how I created it and go through some of the activities and what they gave me - and to explain enough of that so people get a feel for what it was, and what I discovered about myself, so it doesn't leave a lot of time to say anything else.I'm making peace with that though and, assuming I can remember the talk that I have finally finished making changes to (well until rehearsal tomorrow anyway), I will keep it under 18 minutes.Be careful what you wish forDoing this has brought back a feeling that I've been struggling with though, and I don't think that I have overcome as well as I thought. I went through a lot of this before I had the article published on the TED Blog, since I knew that would broaden my readership significantly. It's about the fact that I have been sometimes too honest on this blog - and how vulnerable that makes me feel at times.Standing up and talking about it is a whole other level of vulnerability - especially when it may end up on YouTube or even TED.com itself. In complete honesty it is my dream that it would end up on TED.com, well my dream is actually to be invited to talk about this at a TED conference but I'm being practical here. But it is also one of my greatest fears. As much as a want to share - or need to share - I'm so scared of what people will say or do with all of this knowledge about me.2014 is about being braveThis is why I picked Brave as one of my three words, because I need to address these fears and do what I want to do anyway.I'd love to know what you are being brave about this year as well. Are you taking risks and having to overcome your fears to achieve something different for yourself? What are you wishing for that the scared part of you hopes doesn't come true?