{"id":7566,"date":"2014-07-09T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2014-07-09T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:42:53","slug":"thing-means-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2014\/07\/09\/thing-means-much\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing That Means SO MUCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/product\/pay-what-its-worth-book\/\" title=\"The Ingredients of Integrity\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SoMuch.png\" alt=\"Means so much\" width=\"660\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SoMuch.png 660w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SoMuch-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>A Calling<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to \u2014 and knew I needed to \u2014 WRITE a BOOK.<\/p>\n<p>If I knew anything about myself, I KNEW this. And this KNOWING was so powerful that it became incredibly painful.<\/p>\n<h1>Resistance<\/h1>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t know how, so I tried to escape from IT. The pressure of IT. For a while.<\/p>\n<p>With time and practice, it became not so much the WRITING that weighed, but THE (unwritten) BOOK itself. As did my resistance to ALL THE MEANING I had now placed on IT.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing meant more than creating THE BOOK I always dreamed of, and so under this heavy weight IT sat stagnant.<\/p>\n<p>IT meant too much to move, the fear of not getting IT right or not getting THERE at all hovered. The seriousness of the endeavour weighed. I NEEDED to do this.<\/p>\n<h1>Acceptance<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Five year ago I started writing THE BOOK I dreamed of creating, and today I am ready to share it with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken lots of work on myself, and spending the last year writing the start of a fiction series, to reach THIS place where I am ready, willing, and able to write and share my BOOK that meant so much.<\/p>\n<p>I can now see and trust that this BOOK that means so much, is one of many inside me. I now know I am able to do IT. <\/p>\n<p>And IT doesn&#8217;t mean as much as I made it out to. And yet IT means so much more.<\/p>\n<p>I feel ready now to step fully into who I am. To feel FREE to collect and share my words and thoughts with you. And to KNOW it means something when I do, but this meaning isn&#8217;t there to scare me, only motivate.<\/p>\n<h1>A Heroic Journey<\/h1>\n<p>And so, with no further ado, <strong>I am proud to share with you my first book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/paywhatitsworth.com\" title=\"Pay What It's Worth\" target=\"_blank\">Pay What It&#8217;s Worth: Building Your Sustainable System for Not Setting Prices<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>May it take you on an adventure the way it has taken me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Calling I&#8217;ve always wanted to \u2014 and knew I needed to \u2014 WRITE a BOOK. If I knew anything about myself, I KNEW this. And this KNOWING was so powerful that it became incredibly painful. Resistance But I didn&#8217;t know how, so I tried to escape from IT. The pressure of IT. 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