Over the next few months I’m going to be making a few changes in my life involving my work, church involvement, health, and plan for the upcoming year. Of course I’ll be keeping you updated as things start changing.

Anyways, today (or yesterday, since it’s 2am), I encountered my first big change. As you may know I have kind of been working as a photographer since September. Before that, I had started dreaming and scheming about starting a business. After a few months, I had made some progress in my photography but not in starting the business. I’d looked online and read all the information about business licenses in Washington State. I’d mapped out how things would probably look and work. But I never actually took the step to fill out the paper work and apply for a license.

Until today, that is.

I filled the forms out. And submitted them. And payed the application fees. And then I sat back in my chair and sighed. I couldn’t believe that I finally did it. I’d talked about it for months. Dreamed about it for months. I had written down idea after idea, set a budget, and saved money. But there was still that little part of me that doubted. That part that said it would never happen. That was the part that was afraid of failing.

As I sit here now, I’m starting to think that I finally proved that little part of me wrong. And honestly it’s not that my fear of failure is gone (because believe me, it’s still there and making its presence known), but I decided that I’d rather step out in faith and risk failing than sit back because of fear.

So here I am at step one. It’s the first step towards owning my own business…and it’s also the first change of many coming within the next few months.

And if things go well, 2 weeks from now I’ll be holding a business license in my hands and looking towards step two.