Are You Here To Be A Successful Author? 145of them is open to that method of thinking? From here, they can seriously
just look at what their motivations and options are for behavior.
My main calling, the thing that really lights up my heart and soul,
is to be a writer and see that skill open doors for people. I want to see
what extraordinary thought is all about. In essence, I want to open the
doors to extraordinary thought through practical applications they can
easily use every day. The way I write is especially conversational; it’s
very stream of consciousness, and that disarms readers. I think that the
goal of my work is to help people change their minds, if they wish, and
realize that it’s going to change their lives. It also opens their hearts,
which is critical to success in any area of life.
I think the basis of any extraordinary thinking is love, you
know, truly walking it, talking it, being it, doing it, trusting it, and
realizing that we’re born of and to it. We are born to greatness, and the
greatest thing we’ll ever do is love people and love ourselves to the
best of our abilities. More than likely, when this thing is all said and
done, and we’re at the end of it and everybody’s eyes are wide open,
we’ll all be looking at each other and saying, “Wow, what was your
lesson, what was my lesson? I think my mission was to love and allow
myself to be loved.”
What event or series of events led to your discovery?
Mostly, I think it was the way that I was raised. I actually ran away from
home when I was fifteen. I had been abandoned by my mother at a much
earlier age and was being raised by my father and my grandfather. I loved
them, but desperately felt much was missing in my life. If I stayed, it
would always be that way, as it had been for many before me. I had to go.
My grandfather was a man who had love dripping out of his pores.
He and my father were both circuit-riding preachers and that meant that
at any point in time they had four to five churches each. Granted, most of
them were little country churches in Missouri that had maybe twenty-
two members and they were all cousins, but I had to go there all the
same. I followed my dad and grandfather through their journeys. They
were both rebels, so I picked that up from them. That’s why my books
are called The Rebel Writer series. They were rebels that colored outside
of the lines all their lives and I write and live outside of the lines, too.
My grandfather was like an angel to me. He was the one person
that always reminded me that everything is about love, and that we’re all
more wonderful and more beautiful than we imagine. He taught me that