Changing course starts with making a decision
We really love how easy it’s become to send a note to someone you’ve never met. It used to be that if you wanted to write to an author, you’d write to their publisher or agent and then hope the letter would actually get forwarded on. Now you can just send them—or more pertinently, us!—an e-mail with your comment or question. Readers do, in fact, send us lots of e-mails and we read each and every one of them.
When a similar question gets asked by different people, we try to respond to that concern in one of our books or more recently, here on-line. (And with the new interactive component of our blog, we want to encourage our readers to develop their own supportive forum of questions and answers.) One frequent concern has to do with starting something new with little or no experience. As one young woman wrote, “It’s easy for me to sit at my desk at my current job and say I want to [start a small business] but to actually make the first step is really hard. I don’t even know where to start!”
Well, our new book Changing Your Course is all about turning your dreams into reality and here’s what we want you to know about that scary first step: it doesn’t mean selling all your possessions and booking a one-way, non-refundable ticket! Our 5-step D.R.E.A.M. guide to getting the life you want starts with D for Decide. Changing course starts with making a decision. Nothing will happen unless you decide to make a change or at least, you decide to investigate what making a change involves. And the really important work happens as you examine which parts of your life need to change.
After all, if you want to build a bridge to your future, you have to know where you stand right now.
