My Ninth Book is Almost Ready!

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I wrote my ninth book,  Be Shamelessly, Fearlessly YOU: How to Stop Hiding in Plain Sight to serve as a riveting, powerful nudge in the right direction.

I live with two stark reminds in full view: a compelling commentary about “the dash”–that little mark on tombstones that signifies someone’s lifetime by separating their date of birth from their date of death–and the quote “The trouble is you think you have time.”

It’s human nature to think we have plenty of time to define and develop our dash, the unique and finite years of our lives that shape the legacies we hope to leave.

So we do other stuff. Far too often it’s mindless, pointless, time-wasting stuff. We play games, watch TV (including reruns!), and veg and tune out in other ways… as if we have still all the time in the world to address our dash!

And on those rare occasions when we do sit still long enough to ponder our eventual demise and what it will mean to the loved ones and significant others we leave behind, it’s so easy to talk ourselves out of the notion that we really aren’t all that important in the universal scheme of things. So we discount our value. We tell ourselves that our personal dash doesn’t matter very much to anyone but ourselves.

We tell ourselves, “I haven’t done or learned anything that all-fired important. Everybody probably knows what I know and feels what I feel. I’m just a regular Joe (or Joanna). No one will get any real benefit from what’s in my heart or in my brain that hasn’t already been brought out in my actions. My loved ones know I love them. That’s the most crucial thing I need them to remember about me.”

We’re taught from an early age not to swagger or be prideful. But darn it, we do want that dash to count for something. We went through a helluva lot to get from cradle to grave–and we have the scars (seen and unseen), grey (or absent) hair, wrinkles, and aching regrets to prove it!

So at some point… sooner or later… that tombstone dash begins to flash with a sense of urgency. We conjure the image of a tombstone with our name on it, engraved with our birth date and followed by a now-flashing dash–a dash that’s waiting for the final day when our number is up so it can be placed on the opposite side of our dash, signifying Game Over.

I designed my new book to be a guide that sweeps away the many reasons why we procrastinate on a daily basis when it comes to satisfying and edifying our flashing dash. In writing it, my hope was that readers will begin to take proactive daily steps to acknowledge and bolster the value of their dash.

It’s so easy to get distracted, so easy to convince ourselves we have all the time in the world to shape a positive, lasting legacy. And we are forging a legacy, whether we’re aware of it or not. But is it the kind of legacy we want to leave, or is it a default legacy?

The people who read my ninth book (my second self-help book; the first was Settle For Best: Satisfy the Winner You Were Born to Be) will at least know the answer to that question…and I hope they’ll elect to get proactive on a daily basis so at the end of their lives they’ll have fewer regrets…

If they do, I’ve hit my target dead center!  I hope I did.

(You’ll let me know when you read it if you think I did, won’t you?)

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