At that time, I really didn’t anticipate that what I would be learning and understanding for myself, I would be sharing with others.” “After I finished my first book.I decided to take some time off.to try to understand what the heck I did, to come up with the pillars of understanding that would enable me to better understand what I did so I could continue to emulate it book after book after book. Not until I was so desperate that I was willing to let go in the direction of my passion and overlook, overrun, or run through all that I’d been told did I succeed.” However, I had all these fears, which said, ‘You can’t do it’ because other people had told me that, and I believed them. Personally, emotionally, I felt like I was crumbling inside because I wasn’t in alignment with what was trying to come out-which was my writing. The key to my success at the time was my desperation. Tom overcame his own struggles to become a successful author: It’s a common feeling among writers and a situation familiar to Tom. The ad was for a five-day writing retreat amidst the red rocks of Sedona, where-following Tom Bird’s instruction-I would release my “author within.” I felt the tugging in my chest-a wrestling between wanting to write that book I’ve been toying with for years (the one with all the notes that never seem to find their way into any format) and the logic, which told me that books take time-sometimes years-to write. ![]() An anyone really write a book in five days? I was skeptical.
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