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Go Buy Yourself a Shovel
It May Be Time to Start Digging Up the Real You!
So much pressure. This world comes full of it. Pressure to conform, pressure to excel, pressure to be different. Trying to wade through all of that can be overwhelming to say the least, especially when your life seems to depend on it.
At least your financial life.
What I’ve learned since I started writing is that I don’t really care if it brings me money. Well, let me clarify that! Making money is great, and I’m not going to ever turn it down. But it’s not the be all and end all of this writing thing.
I write because it’s in me to write. Does that make sense? I was born to write — to dig down deep and get my feelings on paper. For years I thought that my ability was a gift that I was supposed to hoard for myself. I didn’t realize that the only real way to keep something is to give it away. Then I thought — well, I’m too old to start now!
You Probably Don’t know Everything You Need to Know
It’s a learning process. And at my age I should know everything already (right?), but…
