Setting Yourself Up for Success and Happiness, No Matter Where You Are

After a very NYC morning, I’m choosing to settle in for a few hours of quiet writing time.

I hear my excuse voice tell me to go out and experience this city more. “You don’t know when you’ll be back!”

I almost give in. I can write at home I think. Or on the train. Or anywhere but here!

But that quieter voice, the intuitive one, whispers to soak in the inspiration and be. Do this for me.

So often the desire to write a book is blocked by external tangible goals. Have a book people want to read, write something meaningful that changes lives, get on a list of best-sellers...

Underneath these tangibles wants however is often a simple need to feed our ego. And that’s ok! Especially when we learn to discern ego from purpose.

This book I’m working on is really for me. It’s a book about courage, and faith, and finding yourself in the mess of motherhood.

When I write for it to be read, I don’t actually write. I travel down rabbit holes of research and social media and distractions.

But when I write for me, to feed my hungry ego, to process and realize and celebrate all that is, magic explodes onto the page.

Letting go of the attachment to others - their expectations and experiences, is a path to letting go of our own excuses. At the end of the day, and at the end of our life, that I believe, is where true happiness lives.