I am Didy and I’m an artist

I am Didy and I’m an artist

Exactly one hundred and fifty days ago I started a challenge. I wanted to show the world my art and grow confidence in making and sharing it. I wanted to overcome my fear of letting other people read what I had written. I wanted to be able to stand up and say without any hesitation: I am Didy and I’m an artist.

So here I am. Writing the last story. Feeling both exhilarated, exhausted, and excited. I can almost say: I did it. I feel I have achieved my goals and so much more. I stepped over the threshold, grabbed a sledgehammer and smashed that threshold into a million pieces. I let go of my perfectionism and posted stories that felt unfinished. I embraced vulnerability and wrote very personal stories. I found a way to express my emotions and shared my poems.

I can now quiet the voice in my head that tells me what I am doing isn’t special. I am a storyteller and you know what: I am a good one. I have this amazing talent for telling stories about the little things in life in an honest, emotional, and authentic way. I have a unique way of looking at the world and I am less and less afraid of sharing that. I feel more brave with every post I share.

Today I wrote a poem about feeling afraid to shine. I keep telling myself that I just don’t like marketing, and I am so happy that someone else is helping me there. It is true and it is not. I don’t like marketing, because I am still afraid to show some parts of myself. To be confident in my work, and just sell it. Well, as you can tell, I am dropping that story from now on too.

I am Didy, a storyteller, a writer, and a speaker and yes you can hire me. I am not only great at telling my own stories, I am also very good at telling other people’s stories. I write About Me pages for other entrepreneurs, both in English and Dutch. I know that so many of us struggle with telling our own story, and guess what: I love doing that for you. Even better: master storyteller Yvette van den Berg always checks the final story to see if she can add an extra magical touch to it (only if needed ofcourse :)).

Also: if you need a ghostwriter for your book, your blog or anything else I can help you with that too. I will write those stories that you haven’t written yet. I will tell the tales you have been meaning to tell and if you like I can even speak at your wedding.

I did it.

I fucking did it.

I wrote 100 stories in 150 days, but somehow I feel that today my story has just begun....

100/100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!