The beginning is always today…

Forget the fear of blank pages, every new day is an open book waiting to be filled with all kinds of narratives. Why not be the bold author of your own book?

If you can write your own story, how would you like it to start and end?

Today is a new beginning. And so is tomorrow and the days after that.

We each have the power to choose how our stories will start and end.

The question is, are we harnessing that power or giving it to someone else?

When I started blogging 15 years ago, I had big dreams and big goals. To be honest, I wanted to make a name for myself. You know those thoughts in the back of your head, “I am going to make it.”

When I said, make it – I meant having a best selling book.

Or my social media handles boasting of followers.

I think that’s what “famous and making it” means nowadays. Or maybe that’s just what I’m thinking…

But my story doesn’t start and ends there.

And so I believe….

This year, I am starting anew and will try again tomorrow and the days after that.

I am no longer after becoming famous, but rather, becoming better.

Not after making a name, but rather, leaving a good name.

Leaving footprints here and there for people to remember me by.

Not boasting followers but inspiring a few, even if it’s just you.

I am going to write stories about simple and big things.

I am going to write about things that made me cry and laugh.

I am going to write stories about my struggles that turned into triumphs.

I am going to write stories about my faith or the lack of it.

I am going to write stories about the times I falter and how I pick myself back up.

I am going to write stories of everyday encounters and challenges.

Of places I get to travel to…

Of storms…sunrises…sunsets…

Of strengths that turn into weaknesses…

Of weaknesses that turned into hopes…

Of tears that turned into joys…

Of dark places that made me see lights in unexpected places…

And of the people I love…

And those I get to meet along the way.

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” Fred Rogers

Until next time,

P.S. If you’re looking for a blank book to start your everyday stories. Would you be interested to check this one out?

My Story Matters – available in paperback and hardcover at Amazon.