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How Do We Write A Script When All We Were Taught Was To Follow One?

When I got to the end of my photography career in the traditional way that I was running it, I didn’t know what I wanted, I just knew it wasn’t that (see previous post) and to be honest, I was a little naive in the process of transitioning out of that career into a new identity as educator, speaker, author, creative, and coach. After I went through the initial grieving process in the first year of being away from a career that fully sustained me financially, emotionally, creatively and dare I say, spiritually, I thought I’d have my shit figured out by then, but it turns out…that’s not the lesson I was to learn. Instead, I feel that for most people the lesson we learn in our later years is that BUILDING something takes longer than FOLLOWING something. When I drive through the mountains, I just imagine the first people who came and carved “roads” to travel on and how difficult and hard it must have been, and now road construction takes a season and we move on with our lives. Writing our life script is going to take longer than following someone else’s, but if we use the ACE Method it will give us the framework to start the process.

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