Here’s to ME!

“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:  This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me… or leave me. Accept me – or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don’t fit your idea of who I should be and don’t try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.

When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad – you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”

Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter

Today I took the bold step of hiring a writing coach and committing to finishing my 1st book by the end of the year.  I’m excited and quite frankly have grown sick and damn tired of playing small.  How do people go on year after year pretending to be something that they are NOT?

I’m loud, opinionated, passionate, angry, funny, kind, sensitive and highly intuitive.  I am who I am, people.  F*** YOU if you can’t take it.

I no longer require or desire your approval.  As the song goes, “It’s MY Life.”

I want more people to get pissed off enough at mediocrity to live bigger, BOLDER lives.  Yes, people are not going to like you.  Friends, even family will try to hold you back or simply walk away.

You can survive it.  Trust me.  Been there.  Done that.

Deep inside you is a dream that you’ve buried for a long time.  Afraid to bring it out into the light, because someone or lots of “someones” told you that you weren’t good enough, smart enough, or that your dream was not realistic.  Their discouragement had no end.

And you listened.

Took the easy route.  Called it being “practical.

Whatever.

Piss on ‘em.  It’s YOUR TIME.

If not now, when?

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be sharing my journey into the book writing process and giving you glimpses into my new coaching program, My Life, By Design, that I will be launching in January 2010.  I’m committing myself and my company to the personal and economic empowerment of women through creative expression.

I believe that life is a creative process and the life of your dreams is one that you consciously design.

I can’t accept another woman hiding behind fear of rejection, failure, success or believing the lie that she is not worthy of her heart’s desire.

It’s never to late to love yourself enough to create an extraordinary life.

Join me.

Here’s to you AND me!