Build Your Own Castle came about as a result of a lot of thinking. I got to thinking about what I write about, and why. The very root of things. Lots of digging down deep. Eventually (as in, after months, which drove my impatient self up the wall) two main issues surfaced:
1. Most people do the things they do unconsciously. They don’t stop to consider all of the choices that are possible.
I don’t care what you choose to do with your life. But I do think it should be a choice, a conscious one, instead of just floating along & letting the dominant culture/your friends/other people/etc. dictate your life & choices.
2. Our lives are commonly depicted as an unrelated series of compartments. The labels on the compartments usually read things like “work”, “school”, “relationship”, “friends”.
Viewing things this way makes no sense to me. Our lives aren’t boxes, they’re spiderwebs – a change in one area shakes all the other strings.
This, I realized, is why I find it so frustrating to try and write about just style or just creativity or just any one thing. My life is multi-faceted, and I’m betting your’s is, too.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Thoreau
I’ve written a interactive guidebook free for download, if you’d like to read more about these issues & my thoughts on them. It’s titled “Build Your Own Castle” in the spirit of the above Thoreau quote. Building a castle (in the air or no) is an enormous undertaking that requires big picture thinking – just like creating the life you crave.
It’s a rallying cry, meant to get you up and moving and give you the tools to do so. I didn’t want to write another free ebook that was all pontificating & no action, so worksheets are included. And it’s short, too – 28 pages, counting the cover and table of contents.
Ready to build? Download below:
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