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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 the rewrite. I got an agent. They sent the 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 the idea and the 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 the mindset I had at the time??I?m going to be a mystery writer full-time.? Now, having failed at something important to me, I realize that I don?t have to do only one thing. I don?t even have to do anything for the rest of my life. I may coach for five years and say, ?I?m done.? What my failure as a mystery writer taught me is that I have choices about what I do, and I?m never locked into any one thing. That was a gift I could never pay for or find anywhere else. |
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