Is Your Imagination Keeping You Stuck In Your Status Quo?

What’s your deepest fear?

What’s your deepest desire?

I’m curious if they are one in the same.

I know for me, behind my deepest fear was my deepest desire.

And my former deepest fear came true this week.

My memoir, “Blank Canvas, How I Reinvented My Life After Prison,” received its first 1-star review on Amazon.

It’s linked above if you want to check the review out.

My book and writing got slammed.

And I couldn’t be happier.

Sounds weird, right? But to me, it’s not; it goes much deeper than someone not liking my book.

Before I even put pen to paper, I was enveloped in all the fears and doubts that come with creating something from nothing and then sharing it with the world.

I was shaken to my core thinking about the first critical comment/review the book would inevitably receive.

I was convinced I couldn’t handle it. I was convinced it would destroy me. I was convinced I’d never write again, even though, at that point, I hadn’t written anything.

I was standing at “A” and freaking out about “X, Y, Z.”