The holidays are over and you’re four days into a brand new year. You want to make the best of it. But when you think of how to do that, it’s a bit overwhelming.
So since you’re starting all over again, how do you set yourself up for success in 2014? Here are a few things that can help:
Driving down the road the other day, I had a few minutes with Talk Radio.
I tuned in to the middle of a Glenn Beck Show and he was commenting about Disney, and how they’ve left their values and morals.
I think… I’m not sure. But he went on to say.
“The field is wide open for anyone to come in and take their place.”
I’m paraphrasing a bit, but as Glenn went on, he was saying how there is room for creative, talented artist, screenwriters, entrepreneurs to step up and tell interesting stories.
Take the place of Disney?
I don’t know, but when Disney started, there WAS no Disney.
He was completely overshadowed but the muscle studios of Hollywood in his day. RKO. Universal. The might MGM.
But Walt knew who he was, knew what he wanted to do and he did it.
As the Member Care Coach at MBT, I have the privilege of ministering to you during times of need. I know many of you have faced adversity during 2013. And, I’m sure there are untold others of you who have suffered through your tragedy in silence.
I know of deaths, illnesses, disappointments, financial hardships, emotional pain and life that has gone south. We’ve prayed for so many this year, I dare say more than any other year since the MBT prayer ministry began.
The good news is that this year is rapidly growing to a close. In just a few short hours you can put the period at the end of the year and start a brand new year with a blank sheet of paper in the typewriter of life.
No matter what has happened to you in 2013, you can declare it over and start again on Wednesday. Regardless of how disappointing the events of the year turned out to be, it is now history and you can begin again with a brand new year.
I believe that 2014 will be a year of:
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! You Are Reading A Throwback blog from 2011) We spend a lot of time here at My Book Therapy and in the writing industry talking about craft, networking, marketing, promoting, and the general way to write a book. Panster, plotter, planster (plotter and panster combination.) But what we don’t discuss much is the cost of giving your life to writing. Especially to writing fiction. There’s a price tag, and while I love what I do, there are days I “feel” the price I’ve paid. I have no co-workers. I sit in my lovely tower, which I adore, alone every single day. Sometimes the phone never rings for me. I may not get a personal email or friendly phone call for days. My family lives out […]
