You Find Your Confidence in Action

I shudder to think of the people and life I’d be missing out on if I was still waiting on the sidelines.

It was a Saturday morning in Wilmington, North Carolina, and I was sweating in the shade as I chatted with my new friend, Lisa. I was there to help her run a pickleball clinic for kids, never mind that I hadn’t played in years and remembered only the gist of the game.

It was just simply time to do something about my desire to get into pickleball.

What’s one of the dreams you’ve been wanting to get to? You’ve made loads of progress in your life and realized many of your dreams. But I bet you’ve got next goals to tackle: write a book, get out of debt, learn or develop that new hobby, enter a painting in the State Fair, start a business, leave the job, travel for a year. Or maybe you don’t even know what your dream is, but you know you want more living in your life.

Like I mentioned, I’d been wanting to get into pickleball. For oh, only a couple years.

I’d dabbled in the game before—nothing at all serious—and someone else had always instigated the party. 

Now I wanted to get more into it, fo…