“… step up, think bigger, be bolder, eliminate fear and competition, and attract money and opportunities.“ Ali Brown

I was talking to someone about my life and how things were falling down around me.  I mean it. Lost my job. Have health issues. There is this leak in my living room window. My favorite large bookcase broke, a shelf snapped. Now it leans dangerously against my desk supported on the other side by three file cabinets. Renovations were done in apartment upstairs and that unleashed vermin like a plague of locusts into my apartment.

She couldn’t help but laugh. It sounded like a cartoon to her. I had to agree the state of things have become absurd. As I sit at my desk each day it feels like I am in the midst of the perfect storm. Except I am the calm center of the storm. Occasionally something comes out of squall and cackles at me and I just swat it back.

There are things I am concerned about but if I were in a state of panic I could not handle problems effectively.  Ali Brown is known as the Ezine Queen building her empire on teaching people how to effectively build a business through a well crafted ezine newsletter.  She has certainly taken that piece and crafted an incredible empire for herself.  Reading her last newsletter I was struck by  how she was able to shift her mindset to reach way beyond her comfort zone.

I pulled out the statement above and have posted it over my computer. If you are crafting a business, creating art, writing your first novel it helps to be reminded of those who have gone before and succeeded.

A year from now I do think I will look back at this time as the moment I took my big steps. Where do you want to be a year from now?