Just the beginning

WOOHOO – was the feeling that wrapped my entire body when I heard my agent Trish say the words I’d been waiting so long to hear, “You’ve got a book deal!” Then I screamed and cried and hugged and cried and hugged and that pattern lasted for quite some time. You see, when my dream – the one I’d been working towards for 13 years – actually came true, it was like one big happy dance starting from my feet shooting right up to my head.

Now, as the dream began some thirteen years ago, this journey to YES was not without its challenges, often in the form of big caverns that I fell into and then had to claw my way out. Like the saying says, just when you think everything is finished, that is just the beginning. Because it is in that moment, that you learn how much that dream really means. It is in that moment, that you find your resolve, determination, never-give-up strength to keep going. You realize that you are more than all the no’s you have accumulated. You realize there is a yes waiting for you to find your way to it.

And then you do.

And then you realize, this is truly just the beginning!

What I’m reading: We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart http://www.emilylockhart.com/books/we-were-liars. Great read. Highly recommend picking it up – today! Engaging and so love the way the author slips in the most important details in the most carefree of ways.