Greetings,
I also posted this on my Facebook page, as it was apparently going to be unpublished due to lack of activity...
Things that I have realised over the course of the last year (roughly increasing in importance):
1) I have a LOT of book ideas
2) The stories I began writing for the "Episode" app are better suited to be in book format, so they're going to go into my queue for books to write. I may or may not continue to write for them on the app. Coding is a bit of a pain, though.
3) I have to work on my crippling fear of failure, which looks a lot like procrastination to outsiders.
4) If I want to do this for a living, I actually need to do it and stop just talking about it.
5) My family is the most valuable thing in my life. Working in a job that made not only my own health and happiness suffer, but also was slowly destroying my relationship with every family member was not worth any money. I regret waiting too long to quit after I had come to the conclusion that the job was not for me, and having someone else make the decision for me by laying me off.
6) Work friends are not always outside of work friends, even if you're friends on FB. Real friends are there to help you weather the foul weather (figuratively or literally).
7) Love and accept yourself, for the good and more importantly, the bad.
