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Lean Out before you can comfortably Lean In
You can not have something new without change.
Change is the agent that facilitated me to “Lean In” as a Writer.
You must make room to Lean In, and that action starts with Lean Out, first.
I have been on my writer’s journey for some time, with little success.
That all changed when I made several time management related changes. Today I have time to be successful and a plan to make it happen.
We all have the same time to deal with our wants allotted in seconds, minutes, hours, days, week, months, and years. No idea on the total amount of each.
We have some regular things to do in our live and more distractions than we know what to do with.
One of my major distractions was my generosity.
My problem is that I am a generous person, and sometimes to a fault. Recently one night I had a dream that explained to me I need to focus and stop trying to be the one that helps everyone else, and in doing so shortchanged myself from doing what I want. And what I want to do is write every day. I now write most day and working on the publishing daily. In the dream I said “NO”, walked away, and it felt good.
