{"id":57666,"date":"2014-01-16T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=57666"},"modified":"2014-01-12T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T17:15:07","slug":"what-i-learned-from-the-year-of-scary-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=57666","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned From the Year of Scary Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Nena Schvaneveldt, former Head Editor, INALJ Utah<\/a>
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What I Learned From the Year of Scary Things<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"NenaS\"<\/a>It\u2019s the end of the year\/ beginning of a new one, which can only mean reflective lists. I\u2019ve had a year of facing some pretty terrifying things. I know I\u2019m feeling reflective, so here\u2019s a list of scary things that happened this last year:<\/p>\n

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  1. I went to my first library conference<\/a>.<\/b> It\u2019s looking like I\u2019ll be at a national conference next year, and I\u2019m sure my experience at the state conference will help me.<\/li>\n
  2. I got promoted<\/a>!<\/b> While that\u2019s awesome that my hard work paid off, it is also pretty scary to move up to new responsibilities. Even though I stayed at my same workplace, the new responsibilities were scary. It was an adjustment, and it required some courage to do some of the new tasks. I had to be willing to fail, which can be difficult.<\/li>\n
  3. With that, I traveled for work for the first time.<\/b> Going straight from the airport to a fancy occasion in a city I hadn\u2019t seen in over ten years was an exciting experience.<\/li>\n
  4. I made an effort to get outside of my comfort zone in my hobbies as well, volunteering for responsibilities I never have before.<\/b> I\u2019m not totally comfortable with increased responsibilities yet, but it\u2019s getting easier the more I try.<\/li>\n
  5. I came clean about having been fired<\/a>.<\/b> The response I got was awesome. While it was very scary to admit to the internet that I have been less than perfect, it was good to be able to process through it. It helped that I\u2019d had years of reflection and a much better track record since then,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Basically, this year I learned that facing fear reduces it. I remember walking away from that library conference wondering why I\u2019d been so nervous about it. Sometimes when I\u2019m feeling fear, I remember that experience. I\u2019ve grown a lot from facing my fears, and I know you can too. Here\u2019s to another year of big scary things in 2014!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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