Attorney by Day, Novelist by Night by Kim Benjamin

Author:Kim Benjamin [Kim Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2017-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

I have a client who was highly successful in the corporate world – she earned a six-figure income, managed over 1000 people, and was the go-to person for getting things fixed or back on track. A few years ago, she decided she wanted a different life, so she consciously chose to have what she called “a year of being uncomfortable.” For her, that meant leaving her safe, lucrative job for a consulting position, and telling the world her story.

The interesting thing that happened as a side movement was that she broke up with her significant other of five years. That had not been in her original plan. They had previously discussed marriage at length, yet she realized, as she went through all the upheaval in transitioning her professional life, that her personal life was no longer working for her either.

The things she had believed about her partner being a great guy, and the stories she had told herself about not wanting more, were suddenly revealed for what they had become: stories. What began as a professional evolution to have more time at home with her children evolved into her becoming a completely whole person, by being honest with herself (and her partner) about who she was and what she wanted. She discovered that, in order to follow the dreams she felt called to follow, she had to reexamine all aspects of her life.

No one likes to lose someone they care for or, worse, feel rejected as a result of making different life choices. We often go to great lengths to hold on to a role, or job, friend or loved one, not because it is best for us, but because it is familiar. We often equate familiar with safe or good, when they are neither.

If we begin to associate loss with movement, we may begin to question whether we are actually called to write. Just contemplating the potential loss may frighten us to such a degree we may question that voice we heard, the one that called us to write. We can even begin to doubt that we heard anything at all, imagining our dreams and desires to be frivolous or even inane. These thoughts swirl around in in the vortex of our mind and can potentially create doubt and ambiguity for our project and our beliefs about who we are.

When we start to follow our creative calling, our true calling, we may begin to experience a tug of war between what we know and feel comfortable with and the direction we want to move toward. This is natural. We move through this stage in order to move into anything new. It’s a transitional phase. But if we were not expecting it and are not sure how to relate, we can find ourselves wanting to shut down our new creation before it takes flight, in order to keep it from taking a toll on other parts of our lives – parts we never imagined would be affected.

It is much easier,

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