Journey’s end

In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled?

I am five pages away from being ready to upload Beatrix to Amazon.

How many hours? A lot. How many times did I almost give up? A lot. How many times did I recommit, pivot, re-evaluate, start over? A lot. A lot A lot.

This has been a journey. From idea to completed book has taken years. Each step has had its own stretch of fun, difficulty, fulfillment, and discipline. The hardest work at times has been to convince myself to keep going. I can’t say enough about all the encouragement I’ve received from my kind friends. Its so lovely to look around and see people cheering you on, especially at some of the hardest points. Encouraging each other is a wonderful thing. I recommend we all do it all the time. (Like here!)

I know it’s not the kind of hard work sanding floors or shingling a house is. It’s not training and running a marathon. It’s a different kind of hard.

How does it make me feel ? How has this all helped me feel fulfilled? Working on a project that feel’s inspired feels like a dialog with the universe and my inner self. It feels nice. Everything I’ve ever liked that I’ve done has felt like a collaborative effort. Any time any thing is created from nothing is a cause for celebration. Birthing an idea is, well, like birth. It’s labor with purpose. Even when I go solo and close out the universe and my higher self, and try to create alone, the effort to make something is something.

Everything I’ve ever done to strengthen my connections to inner, higher, universal forces (God), I stand by as the highest of priorities. Because when it all comes together in the creation process, there is a fulfillment factor that likely can’t be duplicated.

I dedicate this post to everyone who has a creative goal. Keep going. Start if you haven’t. There is deep fulfillment, I promise. I might go as far to say creation will evolve you. It’s so much bigger then a long day sanding. (not to discount the importance of typical hard work) I’m just wanting to also encourage soul work, because I have found it to be worth every hard moment.