If you think your world is tough and you suffer from angst when it comes to writing your blogs or newsletters, consider this. Have you ever written your own obituary?
Roz Savage is a 42-year-old British woman who has single-handedly rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. Now she is rowing across the Pacific Ocean. You may wonder why she’s doing it.
Nine years ago, Savage was a successful management consultant who was married and had a comfortable life. But she felt unfulfilled. She sat down and wrote two obituaries of herself. In an interview with CNN, Savage said in one she kept going with life as it was. In the other she took a jump into the unknown and did the things she’d always wanted to.
From that moment on, her life has never been the same. Her website says, “One-by-one, I shed the trappings of my old life…Little by little I began to realign my life, to put myself on track for the obituary I really wanted.”
According to CNN, she “eventually settled on the challenge that would in many ways define her: rowing the Atlantic single handed…The courage she has found, both to take on the might of the open ocean and give up safe, conventional notions of success to pursue her dreams has made Roz a hero to many people that hope to find inspiration in her life.”
She said, “I try to offer my life as an example of what can be done when a very ordinary person decides to do something out of the ordinary,” she said.
Writing, whether it’s a blog, obituary or romance novel, can be cathartic. The next time you sit down to write a new post, approach it with a fun and daring attitude and not as a gut-wrenching chore. Think extraordinary. It’s all there. You just have to get it out.
I may skip tomorrow’s post and write my two obituaries.
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