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It Starts With Believing

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When We Plant a Tree

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If We Aren’t Willing. . .

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The Zappos Story

I like to listen to books that might help me improve some aspect of my life. Whether it’s my writing, the marketing of my books, juicing or how to be more organized, I like continuing to learn.

My most recent read – by audiobook – is Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh. This is the Zappos story.

I love Zappos as a company and have been so impressed by their delivery, the selection of shoes on their site. I came to this book as an admirer of the business and completely convinced of their celebrity status in the world of internet business.

It was a little surprising then to see the company’s very humble beginnings and how it had started the way any idea starts. By regular people with doubts and uncertainties and a whole lot of hope.

This book has a ton of life lesson takeaways, but the thing that struck me most is how easy it is to assume that the guys who make it big got super lucky with a great idea and great timing.

Tony Hsieh reveals the story of how Zappos came to be in a way that makes it clear it takes so much more than that.

The main ingredient needed? The ability to problem solve. Time after time after time. After that is relentless determination. So that if the first solution to the current problem doesn’t work, you come up with solution number two. And then three. And so on. Until one is found that solves the problem. Then you wait for the next hurdle to arise, and tackle that one with the same resolve to beat it back down.

The world is full of naysayers. Ready to shoot your idea down almost before it’s out of your mouth. My time in dog rescue taught me a lot about naysayers. Here are a few of the regular responses to my belief that pets should not be killed because someone has decided they don’t want them anymore.

“Local pounds cannot be no kill.”

“There are just too many to save.”

“Nobody wants to adopt an old dog.”

“Only shelters with lots of money can find places for them to go.”

Zappos had plenty as well.

“No one will ever buy shoes that they can’t try on.”

“Vendors won’t sell to you because you don’t have a physical retail store.”

To grow a dream, you have to tune out the naysayers.

Zappos didn’t get waved into existence with a magic wand. The main players in the company hammered it into existence, one nail, one board at a time.

Dog rescue has taught me how to problem solve. And after listening to the Zappos story, I realize that’s a pretty handy tool to have in your toolbox.

Problems don’t mean your idea won’t work. It just means you keep after it until you find a solution. Even when others tell you there isn’t one.

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Reading is a Wonderful Luxury

It’s when we take time for ourselves, to check out for a bit, visit a place we’ve never been, meet people we won’t forget for a while. Reading is a wonderful luxury I would be sad to live without.

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Wait for Extraordinary

It’s one of the things in life I want most for my daughters. A future with someone who sees them as I see them. Worthy of the utmost respect and kindness. And yes, I’ll say it, adoration.

Because shouldn’t the person we choose to spend our lives with feel that way about us?

Yes, they should.

Love is an incredible gift. When we give our love to another person, make our hearts vulnerable and open, we need to make sure that we are giving it to someone who sees us as we see them. Why would we settle for anything less?

Wait for the person who thinks you’re extraordinary. Because you are.

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Let It Rain

Something to be said for that. Going with the flow. Enjoying what is instead of longing for what might be. A day of sunshine is a wonderful thing. But rain can be nice, too.

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Nashville – Part One – Ready to Reach

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Ever thought a dream might pass you by?

Nineteen-year old CeCe Mackenzie is determined to make her dreams come true. She heads for Nashville with not much more to her name than a guitar, a Walker Hound named Hank Junior and an old car she’d inherited from her grandma called Gertrude. But when Gertrude ends up on the side of I-40 in flames, Nashville has never seemed farther away. Help arrives in the form of two Georgia football players headed for the Nashville dream as well. When Holden Ashford and Thomas Franklin stop to offer CeCe and Hank Junior a ride, fate may just give a nod to serendipity and meant to be. Because while CeCe is chasing after her dream, she might find love as well.

New Adult Romance where “the characters are so alive you can almost hear them next to you.”

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Nothing in my life has ever felt as good as Holden’s kiss. Not the top of my first roller coaster ride, right before the plunge. Or the first time I performed one of my own songs in front of a crowd. Not even the day my Uncle Dobie said he thought I had a future in country music.

At first, Holden is gentle, kissing me like he’s not sure where the line is. I’m the one who deepens it. I loop my arms around his neck and pull him closer, opening my mouth beneath his and inviting him in. He accepts. I’ve never been kissed like this. Thoroughly. Completely. Expertly.

And that’s what it feels like. As if Holden knows exactly how to coax, persuade, entice. A couple minutes of this, and my mind is blanked of everything but him. I explore the ripples of abs. His breathing quickens, and I trace the other side.

He runs his hands down my back and anchors me against him as if he needs me to know what I’m doing to him. Knowing I’m not ready for what I’ve so clearly asked him for, I pull away and study his far too good-looking face, my chest feeling as if I’ve just run a marathon.

“I’m sorry, Holden,” I say.

He smooths my hair back from my face. “If this ever happens between us, it has to be for the right reasons.”

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