The thing about building the life you really, really want — a Big, Bold, Creative Life — is that progress is never a straight line.

As my wise pop once said, years ago, “The tapestry of life is rarely linear.” Often it feels more like three steps forward, two steps back.

That’s how the past few weeks have felt to me.

Perhaps it all started with my dive into the Creative Cave to create and launch my Get Sparked! ecourse several weeks ago. There were certainly a couple of weeks when my days were topsy-turvy, and the life-sustaining habits I’ve been working on developing (such as getting to bed at a reasonable hour) went right out the window.

Ahem. Yep, major stumble, folks.

But that wasn’t the most troubling part.

When one life pattern falls off course, the lovely ripple effect often sends others tumbling as well.
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