What Am I Doing?

I watched the "Failure Club" on Yahoo! and I was inspired. The whole year these people had these goals that stretched them to work past their breaking point and put themselves out there. One wanted to ride a horse, another do stand-up comedy, etc.

The one that inspired me the most was Elizabeth Chan who wanted to have a top Christmas song on iTunes. She was a musician already and had experience in the field but she wanted to really focus and make this impossible dream happen. Her journey was rough and filled with self doubt but she buckled down about halfway through and got creative with how she would make it happen. And, in the end, she got a top ten song. I was so proud of what she'd done.

It got me thinking, what is it that I want to do that seems impossible. I love to write and I've been doing it since elementary school. Lately I've been writing actually stories and publishing them on Amazon but I'm putting so little effort into them that it's a miracle that I've sold the few that I have. I put hours and hours into writing them and I let them sit there without trying to get people to read them. It's like I'm embarrassed for someone to read them, which I'm not...at least I hope that I'm not.

My failure club goal is to get a #1 book on the Amazon Kindle charts. I'm not sure exactly how many copies that means, but it's not nothing. Definitely more than the 0 I've sold in November and the 1 I sold in October.

Right now I have a series I'm working on called "The Six". I think it has a universal appeal and it could be very popular but I haven't sold a single one.

By November 24, 2013,  I will have a #1 book on Amazon.