Closer To My Dream

For years I have procrastinated about writing my book. Making up all kinds of excuses as to why I shouldn't write it. What if no one likes it? What if it doesn't come out on paper the way it plays in my head? What if no one buys it? What if I really can't write and it's all in my head? What if it's a big FAT failure? The hardest question of all. What if it's a big FAT success? What if it leads me to success of being able to write everyday, all day, and travel the world doing research? What then?

So much time has passed, but I nolonger think of it as wasted time. I see it as time that I needed to grow to get me to this point in my life. It was time used to mature me in being a stronger woman. The woman I was is not the woman I am.

I am nolonger in that place. I write now not focusing on whether or not someone will like it or buy it, but am I using the gift God has given me. Am I digging a grave and burying it or am I using it and making it multiply.

I don't know what is in store for me and this book I am writing, but I do know I am putting it to use.

- Willona B.

DON'T DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!

Soooo many times I have made mistakes and judged myself in that moment and later on for making those mistakes. It's like in replay mode, being a constant reminder that I felled. It was the worst thing ever. From that stormed days of depression.

But with much support, I know that I am not my past. I am my FUTURE. I understand that I maynot get it right the first time. Or the second. Or the third. But That's OK!

I tell myself it's ok to mess up and have to start over. It's ok not to have all the answers. It's ok to go left instead of right. No one is perfect. And the best thing about it is GOD ISN'T JUDGING ME. That right there makes me feel awesome!  

God loves me for the person I am, faults and all.  I was created in his Image. What can be better than that!

So piece of advice. Whatever you have been thinking about doing for the past six months, year, five years, or even ten, DO IT! Whatever it is! Make Mistakes! Learn from them and then Do It Again! Perfection doesn't happen over night, but    Wisdom can bring you great rewards. 

Fresh Start

Good Morning!

Yesterday is of the past. Leave it there. Let today be a day of FRESH starts and NEW BEGINNINGS. We cannot change what happened yesterday, but we can have a great impact on what we do today.