2017 Big Changes!
It is RELEASE DAY!!!!! I can’t believe it is the day! In some ways it has been a very long time in coming, and in other ways, I can’t believe it is already here.I am spending today celebrating! Beginning with breakfast out with some friends who have been on this ride with me, then I am going to do some other things to pamper myself, which will then culminate into a Facebook Launch party. I have been planning this for some time now, and the reality is still better than all those times I visualized my release day!
As I said in my last post, I am determined to make 2017 a banner year for me. Without any effort on my part, the end of 2017 will look very different than it does now, so I might as well try to make it as positive as I can.For the past few years, I have been working on a lot of personal growth an part of that is listening to You Tube videos on my phone while I do housework, take a shower, fold clothes, you name it, if I have some down time that my brain isn’t otherwise occupied, I try to fill it with information. One day it might be a marketing how-to video, another day, it might be a Tony Robins TED Talk, if you haven’t found TED talks yet, you need to google them now, BTW!I believe that part of the reason I am here at my very first release day, is because of those videos. It didn’t cost me anything to download one of the videos and just listen to it while I was doing something else. Many of them spoke of the “law of attraction”, “positive energy”, or “visualization”.Because all of those ideas can be kind of hoakie, and I had the idea that I was nobody, and I might not be good enough, I didn’t share it with anyone. I mean, I live in a house with a husband, and two teenaged daughters, no one was home when I was cleaning, so I could easily keep it a secret.
Another thing I didn’t share was that I began to visualize my life as a published author. I would sit at my desk, before I did any work, and I would close my eyes, and run through what I thought would be a typical, perfect day as a published author, complete with getting my royalty check for that quarter in the mail. I even had a specific amount on that check. (I am the superstitious sort, so I will not be sharing that number, however)Every night when I went to bed I would do the same thing. Tony Robins talks about changing your story. He believes that we all live the story we tell ourselves. So, when you say, “I’ll never be as good as…” or “Things like that don’t happen to me.” You then do what you can to make it correct. In psychology 101 I learned it as “self-fulfilling Prophesy”. So, I set out to rewrite my story, like any good writer can.Fast forward to today, RELEASE DAY! Here I am. I have done things in the last 3 years that I never would have considered before. I am more willing to take chances, and I don’t avoid risks, if I think they will get me to my vision. I can also tell you that, this is only a step on my journey.I realized the other day that the amazing Eloisa James is also debuting a novel today. She is one of those people who inspired me. It is like, as an actor, being in the same production as an actor they are striving to be like. It is amazing that on a small level, I am on the same stage as her, and five years ago, I don’t know that I would have believed anyone had they told me that I would have a release the same day as Eloisa James. Now, she is center stage, her book last week was #3 in the category we share and mine was #1689, but I’m there. It may just be a walk on role with not speaking parts, but it is a start. I’m not saying this to brag, I am pointing out, that my next vision of what my writing day will be like, will probably include being a bit closer to that #3 mark than I was this time.You must be the person you want to be long before you are actually that person, so my call to action for you is to start visualizing your perfect day, start listening to those motivational videos, and begin to act them out, even if it is in secret. If you do it long enough, you will begin to believe it!What have you done to get you where you are right now?
As I said in my last post, I am determined to make 2017 a banner year for me. Without any effort on my part, the end of 2017 will look very different than it does now, so I might as well try to make it as positive as I can.For the past few years, I have been working on a lot of personal growth an part of that is listening to You Tube videos on my phone while I do housework, take a shower, fold clothes, you name it, if I have some down time that my brain isn’t otherwise occupied, I try to fill it with information. One day it might be a marketing how-to video, another day, it might be a Tony Robins TED Talk, if you haven’t found TED talks yet, you need to google them now, BTW!I believe that part of the reason I am here at my very first release day, is because of those videos. It didn’t cost me anything to download one of the videos and just listen to it while I was doing something else. Many of them spoke of the “law of attraction”, “positive energy”, or “visualization”.Because all of those ideas can be kind of hoakie, and I had the idea that I was nobody, and I might not be good enough, I didn’t share it with anyone. I mean, I live in a house with a husband, and two teenaged daughters, no one was home when I was cleaning, so I could easily keep it a secret.Another thing I didn’t share was that I began to visualize my life as a published author. I would sit at my desk, before I did any work, and I would close my eyes, and run through what I thought would be a typical, perfect day as a published author, complete with getting my royalty check for that quarter in the mail. I even had a specific amount on that check. (I am the superstitious sort, so I will not be sharing that number, however)Every night when I went to bed I would do the same thing. Tony Robins talks about changing your story. He believes that we all live the story we tell ourselves. So, when you say, “I’ll never be as good as…” or “Things like that don’t happen to me.” You then do what you can to make it correct. In psychology 101 I learned it as “self-fulfilling Prophesy”. So, I set out to rewrite my story, like any good writer can.Fast forward to today, RELEASE DAY! Here I am. I have done things in the last 3 years that I never would have considered before. I am more willing to take chances, and I don’t avoid risks, if I think they will get me to my vision. I can also tell you that, this is only a step on my journey.I realized the other day that the amazing Eloisa James is also debuting a novel today. She is one of those people who inspired me. It is like, as an actor, being in the same production as an actor they are striving to be like. It is amazing that on a small level, I am on the same stage as her, and five years ago, I don’t know that I would have believed anyone had they told me that I would have a release the same day as Eloisa James. Now, she is center stage, her book last week was #3 in the category we share and mine was #1689, but I’m there. It may just be a walk on role with not speaking parts, but it is a start. I’m not saying this to brag, I am pointing out, that my next vision of what my writing day will be like, will probably include being a bit closer to that #3 mark than I was this time.You must be the person you want to be long before you are actually that person, so my call to action for you is to start visualizing your perfect day, start listening to those motivational videos, and begin to act them out, even if it is in secret. If you do it long enough, you will begin to believe it!What have you done to get you where you are right now?
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