WINS. I want your WINS!
The past couple of weeks I've been working 4.5 jobs and my head has been spinning; this week is marginally less hectic, thank goodness. So what I really need right now is to check in with my superstar authors here in the Café and find out: What are your WINS for the past week? Triumphs! Tales of Success! Share your glories with me!
YOU ARE MIGHTY! <3
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• Jul '24 (edited)
A few days ago, at the tender age of nearly 49, I *finally* realised that worrying is entirely optional, 100% of the time, and I'm still reeling from the realisation. Worrying doesn't solve things, doesn't improve outcomes, creates harmful stress in my nervous system, and makes me less effective at tackling the problems my mind keeps worrying about.
The thought that I literally never had to or have to worry about anything in my life ever again blows my mind. That will free up so much mental and emotional (and hence also phyisical physical) energy!
I don't mean I won't think about things again, or try to anticipate and solve problems. But there's literally zero benefit to *worrying* about how much writing I'm doing, how much rest I need to recover from health issues, or what I'm doing with my time in the meantime. Zero.
So... that's a HUGE win for me.
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• Jul '24
Rebecca, I'm in awe. That's doubtless one of the biggest wins of your whole life, if not the biggest! I'm rather lost for words; thank you for sharing this with us!! A huge, huge win.
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• Mar '24
I had a few rough weeks as well, starting with a break up with a partner of 4 years, followed by an ugly falling out with someone I thought was a friend, and then a hard conversation with my mom that ended in a fight. There is a silver lining though: despite the pain I'm in, and perhaps because of it, I've been feeling very creative, and have been expanding on and reworking my current writing project, my second novel. Perhaps everything happens for a reason, and we just have to wait and find out. It's not always true, of course, but I need to tell myself this right now.
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• Mar '24
Oh gosh, Lili, I'm so sorry. What an absolutely awful time you've had recently. I do hope your creativity continues to bring you solace; I hope you have space and time to grieve these losses as well. My heart goes out to you.
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• Mar '24
Thanks, Dan, for your kind words. Yes, I'm in the middle of processing the grief. Given what had happened, I'm actually not doing so badly, so that's a positive.
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