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What You Want, Wants You
Live your dreams and heal humanity.
We all have dreams and desires that we want to manifest. As creative artists, we feel guided to write, paint, sing, and dance. We might feel it as stemming from our hearts, it might be little voices in our heads or even some mystical muse.
It’s not the source of your dreams that matter; it’s what you do about them.
Many of us, myself included, put our dreams on the back burner while the front burners of life demand our attention.
That’s okay because at least it’s on a burner, right? Even if you are just thinking about that book you want to write, that is a precursor to actually writing it.
It has taken me decades to write a memoir about my childhood. It stayed on the back burner while I married and divorced three husbands, raised two kids, and ran several businesses.
The book was always there patiently waiting.
I finally put it on the front burner and years of thinking about it, journaling and writing random essays has prepared me to do the actual thing.
While my book was on the back burner, it was a little pot hidden by the big pots on the front burner and no one knew about it except me. Now that it’s on the front burner, it’s turned into a really big pot and I’m telling everyone what…