Years ago I decided that once I sold my first book, I’d reward myself with a gold watch. Life had other ideas. For a number of reasons that I write about elsewhere, my budget realities because of some pesky health issues mean that my dream of that reward hasn’t yet happened.
So now that it’s official that Book #19 is a reality, I had my nephew pick up a gold compromise: the lovely gold box of Esther Price dark chocolate candy that you see pictured here. (I know. It’s a bad nutritional move to reward myself with food. Would you believe that it’s not the candy inside that I like but the lovely gold box?)
By the way, Book #19 — the one that I’m writing now, or am writing when I’m not working on this or another blog or procrastinating by zoning out to the occasional game of solitaire — is The Everything Pressure Cooker Cookbook.
I’ve always believed in the going the extra mile work ethic. And, because of that belief, I continue to dream. And revise my goals. Granted, there are now many other things on my Someday List™ that rank higher than a gold watch, many of which are far more expensive than the watch will be when I get it.
But I will get it. Someday™. Somehow. After all, part of that whole going the extra mile work ethic means I also must have a goal setting philosophy that requires that when I dream, I dream big.
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of 18 published books.