Can you say FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!

Last week I felt I had it all figured out. I even posted yesterday about my 3 month focus and my goals. Then yesterday I was once again confronted with the reality that no one thinks I should just focus on my writing. Do I suck that bad? Even though it makes me wonder, I know it’s not really that. As my best friend said to me, it’s more about the fact that people don’t really understand why I would take my years of education and my already moderate success at consulting and trade it in for the unknown of selling fiction books and my Chiczofrenic platform. Because I want to doesn’t seem to be a satisfying response for many. Why do I even care? Probably because of my own insecurities of the writing gig. There is safety in what you know and I have a lot of student loans and a piece of paper that says I’m an expert. Why don’t I just do it all? Because I have tried that juggling act of doing a million different things and while I managed it for a while I burnt out and just don’t want to go down that road again.
Now with all that said there is some validity to what people say so maybe I should try to “figure it out”.
A blog post I re-read today by Chris Guillebeau has helped me put some of those negative thoughts about following my dream rather than my skill, back down where they belong. There is no room for doubt.
Today I will focus on building success….you do the same!
Laina

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I was searching for some fun quotes and came across this one and many others that just had me laughing. You can find a huge list at thinkexist.com and I will keep sharing here.

Wouldn’t it be nice if stupidity could get us out of the messes we created using it? I mean WOW life would be great. For me anyways. But if I objectively think about it isn’t stupidity what can sometimes help us be better people? Do we beat ourselves up too much over making stupid mistakes or trusting people and being vulnerable? Do we do things that cause regret. Not because of a intentionally bad decision but one that maybe we weren’t thinking clearly about? If only all decisions were clear right before we actually made them. What would happen then? Would we be better off or not for making only good decisions.

No idea here but would love your opinion.
Laina

I love this time of year. Listening to beautiful Christmas music. My favorite is… Can’t decide.

What’s yours?
Laina

One of my favorite inspirational books is This Is Not the Life I Ordered. It is simply a journaling of the main characters and their life stories and their journey’s and how they persevered and were able to receive strength from each other in order to make it through those times of success and failure. I would encourage you to pick up a copy as it is one of those books that is good to have on the book shelf for those times you need a little pick me up. Let’s take today for example. It’s Monday, and because of a lot of craziness in my life, I definitely needed some inspiration to get me going. Throughout this book are quotes that I enjoy and the one today that caught my eye was from Cicely Tyson. It says “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch- what make you go beyond the norm.” What it said to me today is that instead of letting those challenges get us down we need to look at them as ways to make us better. It’s not always easy but it’s a better alternative than being sad and depressed about what might seem like an insurmountable challenge.

Laina

Chiczofrenic – Barbie & Ken

We all remember back when we were young and it was all about Barbie dolls and Baby Alive. If we had brothers there might be a stretch Armstrong and some Hot Wheels thrown in. However, how many of us played house. Traditional ‘play’ acting for girls and boys alike. Mimicking our parents and grandparents or people we may have watched on television. Is this where we learned that we wanted to have that perfect life? Did the those folks really portray the perfect life? It’s what all the people against Barbie and Ken were fearful of, the ideas that people could be perfect. We played with the perfect Barbie, in her perfect clothes, her perfect corvette, and perfect Ken. Did we feel this was how life was supposed to be? Perfect?

How did you feel the first time you realized that life wasn’t going to be like Barbie and Ken living the life in the Dream House? I know I’ve felt cheated at times. I thought life was supposed to be all rainbows and marshmallows. Damn that fantasy! It set some high expectations that now I must reach or live disappointed. Trying to achieve that dream is what is driving me crazy these days (among others). How about you?

Book progress or lack thereof…

Deadlines, what can be said about deadlines?? Right now I would like to say I hate them. A procrastinator by nature, making the final revisions to my book are not something I can put off because if I do not have them to my editor in time then they can’t do their work and everything gets thrown off. Don’t you hate that? I mean really, sometimes I just look at the screen of my laptop and want to stare off into space. It’s much more fun. I don’t feel like using neither my creativity nor my imagination. Honestly, I would rather go shopping right now. I even spent some time this morning thinking about what bills I could get rid of that might allow me to stop working. But then I would still want to shop and that idea went right out the window.

I need to be motivated and it’s just not there. So I need to draw some energy from you all, my friends. What do you do when you are faced with something you need to do, you have to do, and usually you want to do. But don’t want to do any of those things right this minute?

Help me????

Laina

We launched our first Orange is the New Pink (OITNP) fundraiser for raising MS awareness last night at Ruth Chris steakhouse. A smashing success we sold out of our OITNP apparel. Check out the store.

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