"All healing is first a healing of the heart."
—Carl Townsend: American thinker and writer
The last 20 years; well, twenty 22 years, have been incredibly hard. I've been stressed out like never before. Felt it in my body very many times. The success of 1993 helped a bit and I was able to survive 94 and 95 despite disasters. Then came the success of 2001 and the survival of 2002, 2006, and 2012. Could hardly make it through the last 6 months. All those ups and down have been a lot to take, especially when now I have little to show for it all but a pension. Well, I do have a pension. Yeah!!! But that's not enough to stabilize my retirement so I can do the things I really want to do, and they are to realize my dream of being a fully engaged author, artist, and musician.
I've learned that you have to give up to get. You have to spend to make. You pay yourself first and that doesn't mean putting money in savings as some people think it is. You have to get financially literate by hanging out with the financially literate.
You have to have something to sell and you have to sell it. I have done my first item to sell. I wrote my first book and it will be out at about the middle of February. This is the first step. Success cannot wait another 20 years. Success now!
