There are times in life when we question our ability to do something or be the person we are.
I read a post on LinkedIn earlier about a father and his relationship with his daughter, how he’d been recently promoted to ‘best friend’ and it made me think about my own relationships - especially the important one, the relationship I have with myself.
I was deep in numbers at the time, working through the budget for the next three months marketing and what I need to achieve in order to fulfil my goals for the next six months (I don’t do long term goals, I only ever set short ones, the ones I know I’m capable of achieving) when I started to look back on the last 2 years and comparing where I was this time two years ago to where I am now.
When someone asks me ‘what inspired me to write?’ I have no answer because in all honesty there wasn’t any singular thing. It was, as I have said many times, an exercise during lock down. Fast forward 2 years and I am now in the process of writing my seventh novel! What a journey this past two years have been and it’s only really just beginning.
Looking at the photos from my first photoshoot, I literally had no idea what I wanted or what to expect and I hate my photo being taken. By the time it came to the second photoshoot I was way more confident and found myself engaging with the photographer, telling her what I wanted, what I thought would be nice and further more I even had an input with the make-up artist.
Ordinarily I would sit back and let people get on with it, but not this time, having an input was important to me because I had grown as a person over the twelve months. This is very apparent in the photos - even though there’s only one year between them you can see the physical and mental changes and these continue each day. Physically I think I’m going in the wrong direction again but mentally I am stronger and more confident than I’ve ever been.
This journey that I am on is like nothing I’ve experienced before, even now I still find myself saying ‘all I did was write a book’. Well actually Anna, you’ve written seven, and that’s the easy part, trust me!!!
I’m so looking forward to where this journey is taking me and the people I will meet along the way, but for now I need to get back to ‘number crunching’. Catch you all soon.
Much love
Anna-Leigh
It’ll be an interesting read, I had many years of love, companionship and fun with a lady older than me.
Oh, the joys of ‘The Bowl’ and ‘Sports and Social'.
Wasn’t sure what level you were going for but it seems like the sort of thing Katie and I will enjoy for sure!
Good read so far Mrs.
Tom’s Just read the first chapter and it’s very raunchy
Just read Chapter 1, I am really looking forward to getting your book. I reckon you’ll have a best seller!
The wife wouldn't give up the book so I bought another copy for myself