Write 2 Be – Page 53

“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”

~ Unknown

Often times in life while trying to strive toward our dreams and make them come true we tend to get off track and stray from the course. We start to lose momentum and seem to forget what matters the most. We lose focus and let other things and people become more important and change the direction in which we are going. So when do we reprioritize our lists of goals and finally get focused enough to turn them into the reality that we want them to be?

Apart of staying focused on moving forward with your future involves letting go of certain things from your past. Sometimes we don’t realize that we tend to hold onto what hinders us the most because we like what feels familiar and comfortable. In order to stay focused you have to be willing to put other things that are not conducive to you achieving your ultimate goal aside. You have to come to the realization that whether we want them to or not people and circumstances do change and the people that we re-route our lives for may not be going in the same direction.

How our life ends up depends on how driven we are to get what we want out of it. However that involves knowing exactly what it is that you want and what it’s going to take to get there. Being focused takes practice and action and the process begins in the mind. Once you’ve set your goal than all that’s left is putting it in motion and if you act like you already have what you want you’ll feel as if you’ve already succeeded. You have to have the confidence that you will attain your dreams because without that confidence you’ll start to let in the doubt.

Being focused is a journey in which you have to keep learning and practicing along the way. You’re directions and paths may change and you may even get sidetracked from time to time but you can’t get distracted when what you’ve always wanted could be right within your reach. Its hard to just throw caution to the wind and toss out all of the things that are familiar to you but if you want to get the best out of your life than you have to take action every day because there’s no time to waste. Actions speak louder than words, and nothing in life ever just happens.

Jimmetta Carpenter

Writer/Editor

The Diary: Succession of Lies (Now Available)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

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I love the idea of blogging and reading blogs. Being able to see what other people are going through, other writers in particular, is in some ways therapeutic for me. It is nice to know that my trials and tribulations are not as bad as they sometimes seem. I have been working on one novel or another since I was in high school and at the age of twenty eight I still don’t have a finished novel to show for it. Now I have four poetry books (only one published but not mainstream). Well this year that will change. I will finally release my first novel this spring and I am doing it all myself. I have my own publishing company that I am trying to get off the ground so I am doing all of the work of publishing my book myself, and with no regular job that is not an easy feat. Right now I am going through the extremely exhausting process of self-publishing my first novel (The Diary: Succession of Lies) and it is so much more involved with self-publishing than I could have ever imagined. The writing is done and for the most part so is the editing. My cover is currently being designed and I already have my block of ISBN #’s so I am in some ways more ready than some would be. Now the hard part is becoming the monetary part of trying to figure out a way to get the review copies and to actually get the books and the main part would be to try and throw together my book release party which I feel I so deserve for all of my hard work. I know that my novel is good and I want more than anything to get it out there so the main thing I am focused on at this very moment, aside from pulling the money together, is marketing and trying to promote my book. I have published an ezine since 2006 called Free Fall and I am now discovering that that can’t be the only thing I use to get my name out there. That is one of the reasons I wanted to start this blog. I wanted to get the word out there about me and about my book but I also needed this blog to keep me on track. I feel as though sometimes I am not being my most productive self and in using this blog to track my progress on the road to becoming a published auther I am certain that it will help me to hold myself accountable. So anyone reading this can feel free to post comments or ask questions and keep me remaining productive and hold me accountable. And to all of the writers out there, keep writing. I’ll write again soon. Be blessed!