I'm going to be

I'm going to Good morning.

God morning to you.

What have you been afraid to do?

To start. Who have you been afraid to do? To start?

Who have you been afraid to be in seeming public?

I know people that can't stop drinking socially

because they're worried how they'll be perceived.

I know people that won't start their podcast because they're worried

what their friends will think about them, that they are some kind of an imitator. Start. Before I

started curlynicky.com in 2008, I was so convinced that there was no room in the space for another hair blog. There was

one other. But the mind tells you things. If I would have never started curly nicky.com,

I may not be here with you right now. You have to start in spite of yourself. You have to do his work.

This work is worship.

One beautiful work you can do to help you knock down that egoic wall, that wall of fear,

is to begin taking the name, chanting, practicing mantra.

Instead of practicing worry, instead of practicing being you, the old you, the one who hasn't

started yet, you have started, and this is the beginning. The beginning sounds like Hail Mary

full of grace. St. Ephraim says, say the prayer. He was speaking about Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. They repeat that on every

bead thousands of times a day. He said, set a time during the day or the night and say your prayer,

word by word, and perceive it with your mind. And with time, according to the measure of your purity and according to the measure

of your zeal, the first thing you will find is joy. Joy will determine you to say the prayer

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