I need a cure for quitting. The other day, I quit . . . AGAIN! I gave up on my dreams. I gave up on my hope. I gave up on my faith. I had all I could take and I determined I just wasn’t going to take it anymore. So, I quit. I made…
The Word used to be the first thing that touched my eyes – short of stumbling around to get dressed and to get coffee. I touched no electronics or made any contact with others. I tried not to even think about my to-do list. The Word came first. I fell out of the habit the…
A no more waiting attitude creates a path for the desired change. The New Year creeps ever closer. I decided not to wait for it. I am jumping into the new me right now. I could wait. I have waited in the past for someone to tell me how to make my books a success….
Mystery, suspense, even a little mayhem – those are the elements that intrigued me from my earliest days of storytelling and adventure reading. The whispers I heard around town only stoked the flames of my imagination. “Did you hear?” Those words were not the start of gossip for me. They were the beginning of a…
Everyone was telling me how to think – from the news to the social media – and I had enough! I took a walk around the yard this morning and found that even away from the computer I was still hearing the voices in my head telling me what to think and why to think…
The winner may have been declared but the real winner is still undetermined. I had a revelation in regards to the election. I knew who the real enemy was and I knew that he was determined to make things look any way he needed them to look to cause the divide that would crush the…
The real truth rarely turns out to be what we thought it was going to be. We get so caught up in the detail of this one moment that we miss the expanse of the bigger picture. When it is exposed, it will change the world. # # # The heaviness followed me around for…
I was ready for the challenge to change. I woke up determined to make it happen – to get it all done. I had a plan. I had a schedule. I had a list. I even had charts. NOTHING would get in the way of me doing all that I had planned. Except maybe all…
Procrastination is a liar. I probably have known this all along, but I diverted my eyes to avoid being forced to look at the truth head on. Procrastination says I am just waiting. Procrastination cajoles me into compliance by making me think that I am only putting something off for another time. Procrastination fills me…
I declared my goals. I took a stand and made a plan for my goals. I took bold and specific steps towards y goals. I woke up the next morning with a sty – which for those of us without a clue is really an eyelash pimple – YES and EYELASH pimple. It forced me…