Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #110

1. My favourite new t-shirt from my friend, Brené Brown (you should go get yourself one)
2. Setting up our first owned home and making it ours
3. The heat lamp in our new bathroom, my word
4. Finding out that I don't hate my stuff as much post-move as I thought I did pre-move
5. Dishwashers

Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in Grace in Small Things.

TEDx Talks: Elan Morgan's "Self-Doubt and the Power of Personal Narrative" at TEDxRegina

On May 16, 2012, I had the great opportunity to speak at TEDxRegina.



I have spoken on panels at blogging conferences before, but, until May, I had not stood in front of a group of people to speak alone since my grade 12 English class in 1989. I delivered that talk through two plastic spoons dressed in superhero capes while I hid behind the teacher's desk that I was using as a spoon stage, because public speaking is my greatest fear next to death.

Naturally, of course, I chose to talk about self-doubt, and the business of getting my talk together became a study in my own subject while I worried over images and the structure of my storyline. Working toward this TEDxRegina talk required me to call upon a level of personal fortitude I honestly wasn't sure I had, but it turns out now that I do, and it is this medium and so many of you over the last almost nine years that brought me here to this point where I can accomplish things I once had no faith I could accomplish.

Thank you.

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PS. Here are the slides from my presentation by themselves: Self-Doubt and the Power of Personal Narrative

Me at Ninjamatics: Brightly Coloured Quotation Cards for Brené Brown

"Brightly Coloured Quotation Cards for Brené Brown":

I created a set of quotation cards for Brené Brown for a talk she gave to a mother-daughter service organization.