Letting Go (Holly Schindler)

At the end of a year, it is just so easy to look at the stuff you haven't done. 

Too easy. 

Projects unfinished. Books half-written, illustrations that stalled...

 The thing is, though, every unfinished project is full of steps that you have already taken.

 

The horrible part of every dream or goal is that you have to take every single step. You can't hopscotch over anything. You have to keep going through the slog. 

A few months ago, I was reminded of this when I admitted to an old friend that I sometimes felt dumb for deciding to get back into my art in my mid-forties. He said, "But that's not right. That's the kind of thing people talk about and never do. You're doing it. So it's not dumb."

But it does involve taking every single step. 

If you have half-finished projects, you took steps this year. 

Don't cling to the spot you're on now and think it's too late. 

Let go of where you are.

Keep moving.

Step after step. 

You'll get there.  

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Holly Schindler is the author of the YA novel A Blue So Dark