Saturday, March 16, 2013

WAITING


I receive affirmations from Hazelden everyday. I thought this one was great for all of us writers who have sent in manuscripts and are waiting to hear from publishers...

Or

For all of us writers who are anxious to finish that next book...

Or

People in general...

I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the air, however many times you banged your head against the wall. . .
--The Courage to Change by Dennis Wholey

The people who are most successful at living and loving are those who can learn to wait successfully. Not many people enjoy waiting or learning patience. Yet, waiting can be a powerful tool that will help us accomplish much good.

We cannot always have what we want when we want it. For different reasons, what we want to do, have, be, or accomplish is not available to us now. But there are things we could not do or have today, no matter what, that we can have in the future. Today, we would make ourselves crazy trying to accomplish what will come naturally and with ease later.

We can trust that all is on schedule. Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

We don't have to put our life on hold while we wait. We can direct our attention elsewhere; we can practice acceptance and gratitude in the interim; we can trust that we do have a life to live while we are waiting - then we go about living it.

Deal with your frustration and impatience, but learn how to wait. The old saying, "You can't always get what you want" isn't entirely true. Often, in life, we can get what we want - especially the desires of our heart - if we can learn to wait.

Today, I am willing to learn the art of patience. If I am feeling powerless because I am waiting for something to happen and I am not in control of timing, I will focus on the power available to me by learning to wait.
You are reading from the book:

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

SO I WENT ONTO MY WEBSITE...

So I went onto my website looking for all those messages to the author. After all I published it on my facebook account and my blah, blah, blog.

You know how many I found? Zero. That's right, zero. Did I really expect anything. No, of course not. I'm still not sure how all this works, but I will continue to check -- each and every day to see if someone writes me.

Good news: I have my book in two places of business. One is my beauty salon and they have sold six. Cool! And, yesterday I approached a business in a strip mall near my house. They took five books and told me they would give me a try. Very cool!

So besides checking my website everyday, I'll be sitting by the phone waiting for a call from these two businesses asking for more books.  :)

Monday, March 11, 2013

Blogs and Tweets and Websites

Oh, my goodness, looks like I need to step up my blah, blah, blogging. Tate just sent me my website.
Check it out:

www.susanwestley.tateauthor.com

It looks like I can blog through the website, but holy Harry Potter, it is going to take me a while to figure it out.

Blogs, tweets and websites -- so much to learn.

But, how cool is that!