The Journey

Good morning one and all, it's journey day!

I don't know why I chose Thursday to be the day I talk about my journey (as a writer and a person), but it is always the perfect day for this blog. I have never had any problem finding lots to say and, of course, today is no exception.

I realize more than ever that for me becoming a successful writer had to include giving up my fear. That was a crucial step in my writing journey. Without that step I would not have been able to benefit from the query writing course that I took or believe that I would get published.

I used to see getting published as an uphill battle. I knew I wanted it but it felt as if there were barriers in my way. The barriers were my own (as I have written before) and the road is not uphill, it's a wide open field instead.

It's wonderful how little choices can make revolutionary changes in your life.

It took me years of hard personal work to release my fears and it has taken me years of hard work to become the writer that I am as well. These journeys have been running parallel to each other, but I am thrilled to say they are finally merging.

I have been learning that all aspects of my life are really one. If you disrespect or neglect one aspect you are actually harming all others.

This is a very freeing concept to me. I have decided to be here, be present and completely myself across all aspects of my life. My professional, personal, parental, and so on are all getting all of me at the necessary times. This is why my journeys are merging.

I was compartmentalizing them before because some of them had to sit on a shelf for a while. As the last few years have unfolded I have been able to, one by one, take the shelved aspects and give them the attention they needed.

The shelf is now empty and I am whole again. But not only whole, but without fear as well.

I have no doubt that that means I will end up being, creating, loving and living exactly the way I am supposed to.

I will leave you with this quote by Ambrose Redmoon: Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.