As a woman I was surrounded in my childhood years by the traditional role of 'men go to work, women were starting to be independent, but still had their careers early then had children.
Men knew about cars Men did the handyman work in the house. And I freed myself of a lot of those beliefs and thoughts over the last decades - however when it comes to techie and handyman stuff I still more often than not call a friend for help or do whatever is needed for me.
I do this without thinking and often without even trying. And tonight I remembered I had bought black out curtains about 4 years ago - they came with some weird hooks that I didn't even give a second thought. I asked one of my friends at the time to help, he said - and I remember it well - have you even looked at the instructions? I said no, I can never figure them out - for some reason it never got done, but now it's light until about 21.00 and my kids are still wide awake at 8pm. So I remembered the black out curtains I bought 4 years ago. I went to fetch them and had a good look at the 'weird hooks' that had made me give up immediately... It took me 5 seconds to figure it out and 2 minutes to get it all together and hung up. WHAT was I afraid about? I KNOW I am capable of so much more when I really put my mind to it and it really makes me so happy overcoming my own false beliefs and replacing them with facts.
Go and try it! It's a soul-freeing feeling :-)
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