To be a success you must put in the long hours, late nights, and stressful deadlines. No one can do your work for you. I know I've asked my husband to write my book for me while I was busy elsewhere - I just get the look, you know the look.
Well, last year I decided life was dull, all I was doing was wasting time. I'd work all day and be tired, like everyone else. So I'd come home hit the couch and imitated a potato. Then it hit me, I was wasting my life. I was wasting my dreams and my art. My soul was dying, I was miserable and feeling unworthy.
I woke myself up and said Hey if you want to write, nothing is stopping you. The excuses of being tired, or the tv it too loud, or that I am constantly getting interrupted, were just excuses. I did not want to die and have done nothing for me.
I began writing, I self-published, and I started blogging. Other than a couple of occasions where I was sick I 've blogged every sat. It has not been easy, I don't always know what I am gong to blog about.
But I am so happy.
I still go to work every day, but now I have a smile on face, I have accomplishments that I am eager to share. I have books written that I want people to read.
And last year I made a goal, that in five years I won't have to work anymore. Then I said wait I've already been doing this for 6 months, so in four years I won't have to work anymore.
Then I had an idea for a novella that basically wrote itself, and I think this would make a fantastic movie. I said to myself why not, why wait four years or five years - in 6 months I am going to have an agent backing me and a movie deal.
They are my goals and I am driving myself to accomplish them.
I work 40 hours a week and still work an additional 40 at home writing so what am I waiting for, this change is happening, and I am making it happen.
If you want to change, you have to get off your ass and do it.
I believe in me, all you need to do is believe in you.
