When Bad Stuff Happens...Make it GOOD - by Liimu

I want to share with you guys something really wonderful that happened this week. So, I mentioned a few days ago how devastated I was by the fact that this writing workshop I had been looking forward to for months was cancelled. The poor author who was planning to facilitate had some serious health stuff she has to tend to this weekend. Not only can I not fault her for having to postpone/cancel the workshop, I'm seriously worried for her and saying all the prayers I can say.

That being said, I was absolutely devastated. Did I mention I was devastated? In my mind, I had built this workshop up to be the ultimate turning point, the breakout moment for me as an author. The facilitator would help me with my writing, I would get her all excited about working out and fitness and she and I would be come BFFs and skip off into the sunset together into Bestselling Authorland.

So, when the workshop was cancelled, on some level, at least for a moment, I felt like that dream of mine had been cancelled. For just a moment, I felt like I was being relegated back to the way, way back seat of my father's station wagon, when I had been promised that I'd get to sit in the front! Wahhh...(have any of you heard any of these Fred videos on YouTube? Sorry, I digress.)

Anyhoo, after a little bit of boo hoo-ing, and some warm loving hugs from my very sympathetic husband and children, I ... how shall I put it? GOT OVER IT. And the next morning, I woke up with a fire in my belly about writing, and a keen awareness that the only thing standing in the way of my happy skip off into the sunsets of Bestselling Authorland was my own two hands. If I'd put them to good use, a skipping I would go. I sat down on my couch and got to work on the outline for the novel. And I finished it! And then, later that day, I wrote 2500 words toward the first draft, and made an accountability agreement with a dear friend to write 2000 words every day (except on the weekends, when I will write 500 words a day).

Something has changed. I have read about other authors saying how the characters come to life and the novel pulls at you, begging, even insisting that you write it. It nearly writes itself. This is how it feels! I never thought I would feel that way, but I also never felt like I would be able to relate to runners who say that after a certain point, they feel like they could run forever. HAH! I've felt that, too!

Can I say it? I AM A WRITER! Now on to finishing this draft and getting it into the hands of a publisher, so I can finally realize my destiny of becoming a BESTSELLING AUTHOR!

Serendipitous Stuff - by Liimu

I'm not a regular horoscope checker, but I couldn't help but smile when I stumbled across today's horoscope:

Today could pan out well for you, or it could pan out not so well for you. The outcome depends on the way you chose to react to the day's news. The best way to ensure that things go brightly is to stay positive. Visualize the way you want things to go down and do whatever you can to make them manifest that way. Show the universe how you want things to be, and it might just follow along. Avoid negative people who like to focus on things that are wrong, and you're likely to stay more cheerful yourself.

It's so interesting how messages come from the Universe in so many different ways. This is a message that came through my Yahoo Horoscope, which I haven't checked in MONTHS, maybe years.

My attitude has needed a serious adjustment. I have been walking around cranky all day because I am on a liquid diet (today), found out that one of my prospective clients is postponing our new project by at least a month, and had to meet with my accountant to find out my tax liability for 2008.

Here are the facts, when filtered through a positive attitude:

1. I am having a great time being off work, working out, eating healthy, getting ready to go to a writing workshop with one of my favorite authors for four days, and looking better than I have in years, I might add (see side picture).


2. I have been working on an intense proposal that, if it's successful, would result in a new partnership with a new client. The delay in my other project will create the space in my life to finish this project. Otherwise, I wouldn't have time.


3. My tax liability is less than it could have been and after it's paid, I still have enough to get me through another four months.

I know it's all in my attitude. I asked for this time off from the Universe. I begged to be given the space to attend to other areas of my life - my writing, my health, my life coaching practice. Now, all I have to do is stop spending so much time complaining and spend more time manifesting and enjoying the wonderful, glorious space I have been blessed with in which I can (and fully intend) to create beautiful things!!!