How A Little Seed Turned Into A Big Idea
I have something super exciting and quite personal to share with all of you. It’s something I have always dreamt about doing and to be honest I’ve always been too scared to even try.
At the end of 2019 I went by myself to a writer’s workshop in Houston and my little seed of an idea came to life. Fast forward to months later and I am in full swing of writing my very first book proposal!!!
To be even more honest, I had no idea that I even had to write a proposal before writing a book. Pretty naive of me but I kind of thought you just sat down and wrote (sad but true)! I had no idea the amount of thought that had to go into this little seed of an idea before I would ever even sit down to write a single page.
For the longest time I hid behind the pages in my notebooks that I knew would never see the light of day. It wasn’t until I stopped caring about what everyone thought about what I was doing that I was able to let go of the judgment and just do the one thing that I want to be doing - which is write.
It wasn’t until I fully I stood in my truth that writing was my passion that the universe started to show up in ways I couldn’t have imagined. All the conversations and thoughts I’d been having, the articles and books I’d been reading, and all the things I intuitively gravitate toward have been guiding me to this moment all along.
You guys, SO many of us have these great ideas for what we want to do with our lives. We have incredible thoughts and plans popping into our heads everyday yet we act on so few of them. I promise you the second you let go of expectations and that you stop caring what anyone else thinks, you can own your truth and step into the light of that thing that you’ve been dreaming to do since before you can even remember.
Writing is something that has been in my blood ever since I was a little kid. And at times I’m embarrassed to admit that, because I’m 29 and just starting to open up about how much I love it. But when you hear that writers don’t make any money or that it takes years to be an established writer and that so few people actually make it, you start to have doubts.
And yes, we all have doubts, but the problem with doubt is that on an emotional level it is indecision between belief and disbelief. Doubt literally is the barrier between believing you can and cannot do something!
Who knows, maybe I do have what it takes to write a book, maybe I don’t. But if I don’t believe that I can in the first place, then the reality is that I never ever will. And if I do believe I can, and I write the book and it sucks or I write it and I somehow fail, well at least I’ll be able to say that I wrote a freaking book. Sucky or not, at least I will have tried!
Doubt ruins more dreams than failure ever will. We’re all scared! We’re all scared sh*tless. Trust me. Putting ourselves out there, being vulnerable, no thank you! But guess what, if we aren’t willing to take a chance, if we’re too scared to stand in our truth to go after the things we want the most out of this life, then what ARE we doing?
Writing this book proposal has been the best and hardest and scariest thing I’ve ever done. Just because it’s something that I love doing doesn’t make it easy, it just makes it so much more worth it.
Today I encourage you to spend a few minutes to think about that thing (you already know what it is because it immediately popped into your head) that you’ve been saying for the longest time you want to go out and do. Now grab the closest piece of paper or open up the notes app in your phone and write it down.
I want to do _________ and one thing I can do today to get closer to my goal is to do _________.
It’s not easy, but it is that simple. Put one foot in front of the other. Gather one tiny seed of an idea at a time and go after the dreams you’ve had since you were a little kid. You can do this. You’ve got to believe you can or else no one else will. Godspeed!
I want to _______ and one thing I can do to start today is _______.
Share your ideas with me or leave a comment below!
