When you choose to be real, there will likely be tough choices and eleventh hour changes. There will be misunderstandings, uncomfortable silences, and sometimes, there will be isolation.
When do you feel like giving up? What discourages you, or tempts you to doubt that sweetness is on the way? Now, write down three remedies for discouragement…lunch with your best friend; a visit to church; dusting off your diplomas, re-reading a love letter, swimming twenty laps; warm soup eaten in silence.
My three most regularly practiced remedies for discouragement:
1. Call Candis. She will say something so country-wise and lovely that I’ll either laugh or cry, and either is great.2. Rose hip clay face masks, preferably Eminence. Sometimes exfoliating your face also takes the slough off yer spirit.
3. Review my body of work (go back to grade school stories if I have to,) and remember that I have an agent who’s waiting for me to deliver.
4. Bonus remedy: I read some Abraham Hicks. It’s the ultimate woo woo that is usually bang on my cosmic sensibilities. The basic message: you are exactly where you are supposed to be and all is well. Have fun.
Now practice just one of your remedies this week to keep your stamina strong.
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