In the blink of an eye, the week had vanished to wherever it is days and hours go to, and now, without warning, it’s Sunday. The day my diary entry is published. However, I had no blog scheduled to be published because, simply put, I hadn’t written it on Friday. I have an editorial calendar for the rest of the year, and Fridays are the day to write the diary entry, source images, upload it to the platform and schedule the publishing. Whilst the content for the teaching and fictional posts are planned, the diary entries for The Sorcerers Post I write on the fly as they are more real-time, usually sparked by a flash of inspiration or an event during the week.

Yet when I try to think of something quickly to write it seldom works, writing comes from the heart, not the head and it requires dropping into a different space. Or at least that is how it is for me. So, after several failed dances with ideas and first drafts, I put Pineapple (my Bassett hound) in the car and drove to Starbucks with his fluffy red blanket determined to keep to my own word and publishing schedule. 

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Armed with a filter coffee and a puppuccino for Pineapple, the staff kindly gave him; we settled into our writing corner as Pineapple’s eyes turned into two round, shiny black mirrors at the sight of the treat he’d come to expect. I smiled to myself as I sat surfing my laptop, across the other end of the store sat a stellar XL Bully dog and a German Shepperd (both lovely, by the way) both watched on passing looks of disbelief as they watched my somewhat softer Basset sitting cosily on his fluffy blanket devouring his puppuccino. It was a perfect moment for voice-over actors to dramatise, I would have loved to know what those two doggos were thinking. 

It was at this point I felt compelled to open an old manuscript, the first book I’d published myself as an indie author and independent publisher. I haven’t looked at this text for years, I wrote the book in 2014 following a successful blog of similar content. The book is entitled Breaking Chains, and before this one, my books were traditionally published. Note, the photo above is from the book launch and it felt fitting share it!

I began to wince at the amateur writing and voice, eeking at the cobbled-together eBook, the mistakes I had made, the errors not seen and missed opportunities… until I changed perspective. It was a valiant first effort, professional as it could be at the time, with the knowledge I had. Above all, it was DONE. It showed joy, dedication and courage, not delusion. Ten years on, it also demonstrates how much I have improved since then, how much more I know and how my vision and I have grown simultaneously. I am proud of the back catalogue I am building. No doubt, in another ten years, I will look back on things I write now and winch. We are all always a work in progress.

So, from Starbucks, with Pineapple on his red fluffy blanket, I tip my filter coffee to you all. Keep creating, doing and dreaming whatever it is you are… and don’t delete it! 

Here is a batch of quotes I pulled from Breaking Chains (a short book of autobiographical inspiring essays), I felt like they meant something today.

“Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.” - Alan H Cohen. 

“Kishi Kaisei is Japanese wisdom which directly translates as ‘wake from the dead and return to life’. Its meaning is to come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst.” – Annaliese Morgan, Breaking Chains 

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself a little – if only out of politeness. And then you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.” – Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel. 

“A lamp may emulate the rising of the sun in the morning (I like their idea) but nothing beats a real sunrise and its purpose, and nothing will beat you and your purpose.” – Annaliese Morgan, Breaking Chains

“Real honesty is not pretending that your feelings are anything other than what they are.” – Alan Watts.

“Nothing happens until something moves.” - Albert Einstein.

“I can promise you; no one is stood at the end waiting with a gold medal for enduring a situation you dislike, do not want, or are scared of.” – Annaliese Morgan, Breaking Chains 

Sending Kishi Kaisei moments and dates with destiny to all of you!

Annaliese

check out these  autobiographies.  I love reading about people's lives, they help us with our own and `i spent many years solely reading these types of books.

Life by Keith Richards   remains one of my favourites. Highly recommend especially if you are a creative or artist of any kind