Five Minutes Before the MiracleWritten by Angie Dixon
Even though this article was next on my idea list, and I write them in order whether I want to or not, I REALLY didn’t want to write this article. Why not? Because it’s about not giving up five minutes before miracle—and I’m in process of doing just that.I won’t go into a lot of details, but there’s something I really want, that I thought was within my grasp. I found out a few hours ago that after being promised, I’m not going to get it. I’ve wanted it a long time, I’ve spent a lot of time going from web site to web site choosing exactly what I need, and now I’m not getting it. I’m ready to give up. To say, “Okay, I’m not supposed to have it. Can I stop trying now?” The answer is yes, I can stop trying. I can stop trying and I can go without what I really want and I can go on with my life, never knowing if there might be a miracle waiting five minutes from now. I’m in a lot of pain, and I want to just curl up and mourn. But instead I’m writing articles and keeping myself busy and trying NOT to let myself get so down that I do give up. I’m certainly not giving up before I talk to everyone in my life and ask them what they think I should do.
| | When Failure is a GiftWritten by Angie Dixon
I wanted, for many many years, to be a mystery writer. Finally I wrote a mystery novel. I got a best-selling novelist to be my mentor and help me with rewrite. I got an agent. They sent book out. And sent it out. And sent it out. And it went nowhere.I tried writing another book, and my mentor told me to dump it and start a third book. I did, but couldn’t get into idea and book never materialized. Which is all okay, because today I’m a life coach, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time and which allows me time to write if I want to, and I never would have gotten here if that book had been published. You see, I can write part-time while I coach as a profession, but if that first book had been published, I would have seen myself as a mystery writer and nothing else. That’s mindset I had at time—“I’m going to be a mystery writer full-time.”
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