Girl Who Dared to Dream

The Inner Critic- something very familiar if you are an enneagram type 1 like me. (If you don't know what the enneagram is, it is nine personality types and you can take a quiz here , but I recommend also studying the types and determining for yourself rather than blindly going off the quiz.) Criticism isn't bad as it can help you grow and improve and everyone knows the phrase "you are your own worst critic." However, the inner critic is different. The inner critic is much more than just a voice inside your head. It is constantly telling you to do more, say more, and be more. It is saying "eh you could be more perfect than that" and "oh that wasn't quite right, try again" after everything you do in life. You are constantly second-guessing yourself and have high self-expectations. High expectations can be good but they shouldn't be hard and harsh expectations. I started to recognize these expectations I put on myself a couple years ago...

Overthinking- something I think everyone is familiar with, especially if you are in a season of life where you need to make big decisions and you have a perfectionist personality. And if that's the case, I'm right there with you! One of my goals for 2020 has been to have more fun and take more risks. If you know me, my idea of fun is normally just having a girl's night in with a chick flick and junk food. While this is fun, there is so much more to enjoy in life and "risk" is barely in my vocabulary. Last year one of the riskiest, spontaneous things I did was order the flavor-of-the-day at Culver's without knowing what the flavor was until I pulled up to window two (shoutout to Carli for witnessing this hahah). So in 2020, I'm committing myself to try something new or do something spontaneous every month. In January, I went on a plane ride with my sister and her boyfriend who has his pilot's license. (This was something I would've done anyway b...