6WS - I finally achieved my biggest goal

It seems like forever since I did a Six Word Saturday post. In the time that I've been missing in action, my grandson starting walking, my lounge room finally got painted (16 years after I stripped the wallpaper - because there's nothing like rushing things) and I also published my first novel on Kindle.

Okay so two of those things happened this week, the book and the loungeroom - so it's been a week of triumphs. Tonight I'm finally sitting back on my lounge to write, after a week of having to sit at the kitchen table to write. Just doesn't feel the same sitting at the kitchen table.

I look around my beautifully clean, freshly painted loungeroom and I smile because it looks so damn good. Ironic that I stripped the wallpaper when I was pregnant with my youngest son and it's actually him who painted it this week. Amazingly professional job for someone who has never painted before (he has a little bit of his perfectionist mother in him)

I sat on my finished novel for 12 months before I finally gathered up enough nerve this week to publish it and now I'm not sure why I waited so long. I'm really happy with it, the responses so far have been really postive and I guess my only frustration is a few quirks with  the formatting in Kindle.

I never really believed I could write a novel, despite a life long dream to do so. I could never get past the first few chapters before I got bored with it. Then this one spilled out and I was astounded that I actually wrote it, all 81,000 words of it.

Now despite ideas for new stories, that doubt is back again. How many times have I let fear or lack of faith slow me down? Way too many times to count. I think back to me at 20 and my limited confidence and then I look at me now, twenty years later at 40 and I know there's no comparison. Stands to reason that I'm going to be smoking hot by the time I'm 60.

I's all a learning curve though, if we don't learn from what we do then we're wasting our time. So when have you let fear slow you down?





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