Happy Mothers Day!

It is hard to believe we are into May already; this time last year I was planning my wedding to Dave and very soon it will be our 1-year anniversary.

They say time waits for no man and whoever “they” are I think they may be right! We are all guilty of ambling along thinking we have forever to fulfil our dreams and those dreams may well involve travelling the world, owning a yacht, or even being the author of our very own book.

The time to move forward with our dreams is NOW, before it is too late. Life has a tendency to get in the way of our dreams, if we let it, and we take the easier option of putting our dreams on hold rather than forging ahead.

So many people have told me in the past few weeks that their dream is to have a book published. An awful lot of people have also told me that they would love to write a book. Even more people have told me that they have actually written their book, but for some reason, 10 years later, they still have not gotten around to having their book published.

Why ever not? Yes that is the question I asked all those people too. Being perfectly honest they all told me virtually the same thing, and that is they were still thinking about getting the book published, or thinking about writing the book, but something holds them back from actually doing that.

I have taken the leap and as you are all probably aware my first book will be published very soon! For many reasons the time has not been right before now for me to follow my dream, but I came to the realization after my surgery in October of last year, that the time will never be right. If we wait for the right time we may never get the chance to pursue our dreams, follow through with our passion.

I decided to make some choices in my personal and business life which would enable me to finish writing my book and actually go through the process of having my book published. Balancing our time is very important because if we over extend ourselves and leave no time for rest or personal time we could end up feeling very stressed out and maybe upsetting family or friends. By deciding to make these choices I unfortunately had to say no to various organizations or sometimes social events in order that I could balance my schedule fairly. If I had tried to be that “superwoman” I was many years ago I doubt I would have had the energy or time to even think about my book let alone write, publish and promote it. Most of my time lately is taken up with talking to everyone and anyone about my upcoming book in order for them to take an interest in it and, maybe, buy the book because they feel there is something in my story that they may be interesting to them, or help them in some way.

I am having the time of my life, but only because of the choices I made early last year. I am promoting my book which involves talking a lot, and I do love to talk a lot especially as I am a motivational speaker. I am wearing a lot of pink, which is not only a colour I adore, but also the breast cancer foundation colour for awareness. Pink is definitely the new black again this year and my wardrobe is growing larger every day as I find new outfits that are suitable to wear when I am out and about promoting my book.

The most important thing here is that I am not only having fun, I am following my heart and my heart told me it was time to tell my story, and in order to do that I wrote my book. I did not think about writing it… I did it, and that is the message here, JUST DO IT!

I may well look “Pretty in Pink” but I decided to call my book “A Life Like Mine”. I will definitely be wearing something pink at my book launch and maybe even on the photo of me on my book cover, you never know.