{"id":2448,"date":"2010-10-28T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:41:45","slug":"christine-kane-how-to-create-anything-even-when-youre-scared-inexperienced-and-dont-believe-in-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/christine-kane-how-to-create-anything-even-when-youre-scared-inexperienced-and-dont-believe-in-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Kane: How to Create Anything (Even When You're Scared, Inexperienced and Don't Believe in Yourself)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest post by Christine Kane:<\/em>
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Our friend Kevin Kragt took this beautiful picture of his son, Oscar. What if Mom and Dad gave up if Oscar didn't master crawling the first time he tried?<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nLet’s say you had a baby.
\nCongratulations! Your baby is the best human ever!
\nYou love your baby. You celebrate as it starts to crawl. You and your partner delight in this baby’s every new adventure.
\nThen, one day, the baby stands up on her own. “Yaaaaay!” you cheer. You clap your hands. The baby smiles and laughs. You think, “Wow. She’s gonna learn how to walk. Isn’t that great?”
\nOne evening, you and your partner are on the carpet playing with your baby. Suddenly, your perfect child stands up again. She braces herself on the coffee table. Your partner grabs the movie camera. You call your parents in Idaho so they can listen to the play-by-play.
\nYour child lurches forward. You all gasp and hold your collective breath.
\nThen, CLUNK. She falls onto her butt on the carpet.
\n“Awwwww,” you say.
\n“Dang,” your partner says.
\n“Well, I guess that’s it. This one just wasn’t cut out for walking,” your parents say from their home in Boise.
\n“Oh well,” you say. “It just wasn’t meant to be. Bummer.”
\nYou hang up the phone. You turn off the camera. You take the baby up to bed. Tomorrow you’ll begin the search for a bigger stroller because your kid’s obviously gonna have to get through life on wheels.
\nGet the idea?
\nAnd yet, how many of us are already acting like this with our plans for the coming year or with our own new beginnings<\/strong>?
\nYour project, your dream, or your goal is your baby. If we all gave up on our kids as much as we give up on ourselves, then we’d have a race of humans with big calluses on their knees!<\/p>\n

The Best Way to Create Anything: Baby Steps<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Every big project or goal can be broken down into baby steps. Little lurches forward. Sometimes they’re clumsy. Sometimes they don’t even seem to make an impact. But this is how anything<\/strong> gets done.<\/p>\n