Authors Note
Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me. If you’re enjoying these books, please take a few seconds and leave a review. It really helps me out as an author if I can collect some five-star reviews and positive comments. I write this as we’re expecting our 6th child in a few months. We’re still working on names and I’m finding that my input into that creative process is extremely limited. I’m sure that whatever name my wife ends up choosing will eventually make its way into these stories though. I’ll announce it in the next book notes as well for those who are curious! (He’s a boy. We already know that. He made it very obvious in the ultrasound appointments)
Speaking of which my daughter Zoey’s 8th birthday is this Monday. I just realized my oldest son is 24. I’m going to have quite the spread. It’s a race now to see if we can have more kids before we start having grand kids! Nothing reminds you of your immortality quite as much as having children who suddenly start looking old. Except maybe for the tornado that formed in the lake beside my house a month ago. I watched it form and go the opposite direction while my wife was tossing everything out of an interior closet in our house for us to shelter in. I don’t think anything on this earth is as satisfying as raising children to be strong, able, moral adults who are strong enough to stand up for themselves and others. I hope some of that comes across in my writing.
The self-doubt will always be there for everyone. Like many people before me have said it’s conquering the fear that makes you brave. It’s conquering the self-doubt that makes you confident. I printed out a quote from Theodore Roosevelt that I’ve been reading daily for the last few weeks. I’m attaching below in the hopes it may provide comfort and motivation to you as well. Especially as we all work hard to beat our way through this new normal of Pandemics and Economic catastrophes.
The Man in The Arena
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms; the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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