Simplify Your Life’s Weblog

It has been too long since I blogged.  No excuses really, just caught up in our relocation to Nebraska and a little bit of laziness.  With our relocation, I’ve had to consider what I am interested in doing as a career to help support my family.  We were deliberate enough in our life changes that it is not an emergency for me to find just any old job.  I have the luxury of being able to be just as deliberate about my career path.

As can be seen with my previous blogs, I have gone through training to be a life coach.  I officially become a Certified Professional Coach as of tomorrow at 1 pm CST though I’ve been a coach for many years.  This is one stream of income that I am passionate about pursuing and am working toward a game plan for that as we speak.

The other stream of income that I am passionate about has been “in me” since the 5th grade.  In the 5th grade, I wrote a story about a farmer who had cows that gave orange juice rather than milk.  While the story itself is not something that has stuck with me, the feeling it gave me to write it and the feedback I received has.  Ever since then, I have dreamed of being a writer. 

For the past few weeks I have been reading about becoming a freelance writer.  I have signed up for various online discussion board groups about freelance writing.  I have done all sorts of thinking and investigating around the topic however this morning it occurred to me …….. perhaps the real first step to becoming a writer is …….. TO START WRITING AGAIN!!!!!!!!  Funny how the most obvious of answers can escape us for a period of time.  And when we become more mindful of what we want and break it down into simpler, more manageable pieces it becomes crystal clear.

Here I am today in my first step of starting to write again.  I am committed to blogging when the urge strikes me.  I will begin journaling again.  And when inspiration hits I’ll write about whatever is in my head at the time.  There are many different avenues to share a person’s writing and I am beginning my discovery of what type of writing comes the most natural to me.  I am grateful for this revelation and I know that the simple act of writing will build my confidence.