choice

I hope this year to start looking for beta readers, but one thing is eating me... If we share an electronic file, how do we know the reader won't upload it to something tied into AI and inadvertently end up releasing the writing? I had a friend suggest her mother as a beta reader, and mentioned...

“Plus, even if bad stuff is about to happen, worrying won’t save us. So if you get a strange sensation, choose not to fear it. It’s a tough choice since the anxiety won’t fall away immediately upon making the choice, but at least you won’t pour oil on the fire.” Geert Verschaeve

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot – and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a...

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times. I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view. Steve Goodier

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. Ralph Marston