It’s Time To Throw Away Plan B and Go All In On Plan A

When I quit my day job in March 2012 to turn my then side business into a full-time thing, my original goal was to fully step into being the author I’ve always known I was meant to be. And at first, that’s what happened.

Right after I left my day job, I immediately began writing my second eBook that I’d been wanting to write for years but hadn’t made the time. It was a quick write and the book was out within a couple of months after my last day in corporate America.

I was SO happy. This is what it was meant to be about for me.

And then I got caught up on chasing money.

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What If Not Knowing How Was No Longer An Obstacle?

You’ve been wrongly taught that you have to know How you’ll do something before you do it. Or that the How even matters to begin with.

Not knowing How then becomes a barrier that stops you, sabotages you and gets in the way of you doing the thing(s) you know you’re meant to be. 

But the truth is, you never, ever, ever, ever, ever… need to know How you’ll do something before you take the first step. No matter what it is you desire and dream of. 

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Imagine If You Invested All Of The Money You’ve Spent Trying To Figure Out How To Make More Money Into Doing The Thing You Know You’re Meant To

Imagine if you invested all of the money you’ve spent trying to figure out how to make more money into doing the thing you know you’re meant to…

That is the realization I came to recently as I looked at all of the money I’ve invested in my coaching business over the past decade—upwards of $100k and I’m still paying some of it off.

And then I thought–Wow! If I had invested that $100k into my books, into being the author I know I’m meant to be, into my creative work, into my art… imagine what I could’ve created. Imagine where I’d be right now.

The Amazon ads that $100k could’ve paid for. The fabulous professional cover designs. The hiring of team members who are specifically focused on helping me to sell more books and get my books out to more people.

But no.

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Is 2021 The Year You Finally Make The Shift?

Before 2016, writing my books was just a hobby. It was something I did when I had time, or when the mood struck me, or when I was able to get around to it. 

And that’s why I continued to have hobbyist results.

My books weren’t a priority. They were a one day, a some day, an if I have time for it kind of thing. 

The only problem was, I knew since the age of 11 that I was meant to be an author–of both fiction and nonfiction. I always knew that. I just hadn’t been living it fully up ’til that point.

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Remember What It’s Always Been About For You And Use That As Your North Star Forever More

When I was 11 years old, I started writing short stories. When I was 13, I wrote a 120-page novella in three days.

Inspired by R.L. Stein’s Goosebumps, and Lurlene McDaniel’s One Last Wish book series, and all of the many, many books I’d read leading up to that point, I just decided to sit down and craft my own stories.

And then not long after that, I heard about a movie called “Message In A Bottle” that was about to debut in theatres (this was 1999 LOL). I knew it was based on a book and I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie.

My mom’s friend had a copy of the book and said I could borrow it when she was finished. In the meantime, she gave me another book by the same author to read. That book was The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks.

And reading it sparked something in me that day (no pun intended). A remembrance. A knowing. A certainty.

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