I’ve realised over time that I was meant to get little installments which when I put them all together, made one big picture. You’re meant to work for it.
Follow That Path
This is the most poignant speech I have ever heard. In just a few short paragraphs, Steven Spielberg has described my writing journey so succinctly. He’s absolutely right, in that you don’t just wake up knowing what you are supposed to be when you get older. You determine this through the little nudges the heavens gives us in particular directions.
Life will eventually get sick of waiting for you to listen and will drop your destiny on you like a ton of bricks, like it did in my case, but don’t wait like I did – I was 38 – to have a go at what you always had a feeling would work out for you. Try everything until you find it. Listen to that inner voice and let it guide you, because we all know that we come a cropper when we ignore it.
Our lives are built around busy schedules and trying to fit more and more into each day. I kept missing the prompts, because I put all of that first. It took a brush with the Old Grim Reaper, a wasted career and some forced time out of my life to be quiet enough to hear that I was born to be a writer, so I urge you not to make my mistakes.
Let me give you one last piece to the puzzle…
You will know when you’ve found it, because you will open the floodgate and never be able to close it, not even if you want to, because it just won’t let you. That’s when you know you’ve found that last piece you were looking for.
Go out today, take a walk, listen to some calming music that’s just going to drift into the background or do what you need to do to just listen to your inner thoughts. See what they tell you, what clues they throw up, because they’re not going to give you all the clues at once. I’ve realised over time that I was meant to get little installments which when I put them all together, made one big picture. You’re meant to work for it. No one is handed anything worthwhile to you on a platter. Take a moment to reflect upon where you have come from and what brought you to this moment in time and see what full circle your life has brought you without you realising it. You might be surprised at what you find.
Don’t let age be a barrier either. Just go for it. Even just ten years ago, I would have laughed you out of town if you said to me that one day, you will be an author, selling books all over the world, and yet I’m sat here editing my second book, whilst touching up on the third book and planning my next chapter in the fourth. Even I can’t believe that all this is happening to little old me. The girl from the village with no writing contacts nor immediate influence and you want to see what I have coming next.
Hidden – The Hidden Saga Book 1
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Trapped – Coming soon!
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Great post. Wandering around wondering what I’m meant to do right now. At 44 it’s tough to admit you still have no idea what you want to ‘be’ when you grow up.
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Hahahahahahaha, you’re just getting started. What I did was sit myself down and first made a list of all the things I couldn’t do and crossed them off my overall list. Next, I looked at what I could do and then I looked at what I did everyday without thinking about it. I’d written everyday in a business sense, but it never occured to me that I could write creatively, but there wasn’t anything else standing out to me. I’m 44 at the end of the week, and believe me that once I put pen to paper, the rest was history. I’m only just getting warmed up. The saga alone will be at least 7 books and that’s besides all the other books in my head. Once I’d found the thing I’d always been looking for I can’t describe the relief that I felt. You will feel the same once you work it out, but first you must be quiet enough to listen to the voice screaming inside you. You know the one. It’s the voice that tells you to bring the washing in, right before it rains. 😉 Good luck 🍀 Never give up on your search. 💖
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Thank you for the encouragement. And – happy birthday! I’m loving my forties. The best decade yet. 🙂
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