I’ve been asking myself the same question over and over again. Sometimes I ask it in different ways. And I keep searching for an answer.
I realized yesterday that I keep getting the same answer over and over again, but I don’t ever really “hear” it. Or I don’t quite “get it.”
Sometimes we have to pay really close attention when we are asking questions so we can discern the answers given to us.
I’ve been trying to refocus my business and my business activities. I keep wondering, “Should I go in this direction or in that direction?”
Opportunities keep coming up. I keep wondering if I should take advantage of them because they could provide me with income. Yet, they aren’t really what I want to do.
Yesterday, I finally got it. I’d heard the same thing over and over again; in fact I’d heard myself say the same words. I picked up a book that I’d read before, looked at the advice within its covers and thought, “I get it.” It was a book about making a living writing books…lots of them. I coach people on writing books and getting them published and have been trying to do the same for myself for a number of years–but I’ve been stuck on just one way of doing it and one or two types of books.
I walked down the aisle of a grocery store and saw something else, and said, “I see the answer.” It was an aisle filled with magazines. I have a degree in magazine journalism, but I rarely write for magazines these days. Many of those magazines are ones I’ve dreamed of writing for.
I’ve often said, “I just want to write.” Recently I’ve been thinking about writing more–creating more written products of all types (including my blogs).
Yesterday I heard, I saw, I understood. I got it. I’ve always known I was supposed to write. I’ve always known that’s what I was supposed to do. I just wasn’t willing to see that that is, indeed, what I want to do and should be doing.
How about you? Are your answers right in front of your nose, as my mother used to say? Can you hear them? Can you see them? Why not pay a little closer attention for the next few days. You might be surprised to find that the answers to your questions important questions will show up clearly if you just open your eyes and ears. Ask, then pay close attention.
