New beginnings aren’t just about action. In my case, there’s no real action yet. But I’m definitely beginning again. A new story in the works, a new release to plan for, a new PR team, a new season for my family as my son prepares to graduate from high school (whimper, sniffle, YAY!).
Before any challenge, and a new beginning is always a challenge, it’s the start that’s so scary, not the actual work to be done. It’s the watching and wondering and trying to subdue those pesky emotions and fears that sucks our momentum and energy away. I’m living that right now. I’m in-the-flesh proof that living never gets “easier,” no matter how much success you’ve had or how far you’ve come (in my case, raising a family and building a thriving publishing career and learning to write emotional novels that connect with readers and finding a publisher and agent and publicity team who believe in my vision maybe more than I can believe in myself yet).
But living isn’t about easy, I’ve learned.
You have, too, right?
To live, not just endure or survive or bide your time, is the goal. It’s the start of all that’s right in the world. Any world, whoever you are and wherever you call home. It’s never going away, the drive to live today. Just today. To make this moment count.
My mind numbs at the possibilities. The responsibilities. The choices and the weight of making them right. The possibilities and how few care what I want them to be, or how I need them to pan out.
Letting go. As you wait and wonder and listen and try to move ahead but feel the weight of all you don’t know dragging you down, it’s tomorrow that you’re hearing, if you let go and let it in. It’s today that stands in your way. It’s worry that you throw in your own path to “soften” the impact.
Step out of those shadows with me. Step over the worry or fear of what could be. Hear only the excitement, the promise that today will fulfill whether you want it to or not. Trust yourself. Trust the unknown.
Live the potential of what could be, not the caution of what might not.
I’ll be hearing, listening for all the great things coming your way, too ;o)
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Learning to ride the waves of change and life, learning to LIVE: these are my challenges. I love how you write about them. Fear is my bitter antagonist. Maybe I need to write my way to victory?
Glad you continue to write and to thrive.