I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
- Rosalia de Castro
… image via istockphoto member: JacobH …
I have been on quite a blogging adventure! I’ll share all the details below and sincerely appreciate your support.
It’s a fun and scary time. I’m trying to enjoy the ride and focus on the fun (more so than the fear) — easier said than done!
End of June Updates…
–> Unfiltered Thoughts and Emotions
My book, Perseverance, will be officially released in exactly 6 weeks – YIKES! The whole journey from start to finish will be almost exactly four years. What I’ve recently realized is that I have a tremendous fear of asking for others’ support. I’m getting better at it – in terms of emotions – and knowing when I need emotional support; however, I have become so accustomed to the “giver” role that it feels incredibly strange to market something for others to purchase. And so I’ve been feeling as if I’ve given my entire life to others and essentially that no one is here now to give to me – this book (it’s a difficult struggle that I’m working to deal with). But I think the reason for the book not doing so great in pre-sales may be because I haven’t asked for support. I haven’t said, please pre-order my book today! Because that doesn’t feel like me. But I need to find a happy balance and learn to advocate for something new. I didn’t plan to write about this issue in my “end of June updates,” but I guess it just had to come out on here for me to honor this blog as something deeply personal to me. So those are my unfiltered thoughts and emotions right now. If you have any tips or suggestions for how to better cope with this, I am all ears! And please do pre-order Perseverance — you will not only be supporting my vision and goal to share with others how to truly live in the now, but also will be donating directly to CCC and the Chordoma Foundation (where all of my proceeds are going). Okay, I can breathe now!
–> New Blogging Adventures
- I am excited to be a regular contributor for the Huffington Post (Living Section) and Psychology Today. I plan to post once a week on both sites. My first posts are up on both sites! I would love for you to check them out and leave a comment. I haven’t decided yet how to best organize the different posts on this blog, but am working on that now (will likely have that figured out by this Friday).
- A Beautiful Ripple Effect will remain my personal blog at this domain (rather than move it to my main website). However, I will be moving servers which may cause the blog to go down for a bit of time or not have all the posts, etc.. Not sure what may happen, but the transition will take approximately 48 hours. So I won’t be adding a new blog post until Thursday or Friday. Just a pre-warning that things may be a bit off, but I’m still here! The blog design will be a bit different, but very clean and simple. The design is still a work in progress – so I’ll be making tweaks over the next couple of weeks.
- I will be posting updates for The Next Chapter: Wreck This Journal on my tumblr account in the meantime. I have made a lot of wrecking progress recently!
–> The Day to Day Stuff
As usual, I am behind with my emails. If you’ve sent me an email recently (recently = within the last month — I know really bad!), I will be responding sometime later this week.
However, I am on twitter so you can say hi :). You can follow me @clrsimple2
And just a reminder that I am a full time graduate student — so that is why it’s a bit difficult for me to stay on top of everything. Summer means no classes, but major research time – it’s a bit different from most graduate programs (e.g., business or law school). Thank you to Aby for reminding me to mention that! I don’t get the old-fashioned summer vacation!
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Have a wonderful end of June! I will be back with a fresh post and a fresh look in July!
Do you have any fun plans for the Fourth of July?
