Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 275 – Mindset

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“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

Zig Ziglar

Gotta tell you, Spidey, I am loving your chosen quote this week!

It really hones in on mindset, to me. If you want to do something, or get somewhere, you have to be positive about it, and be prepared for it, struggle or smooth passagee, to get where you want.

It’s no point sitting back on your haunches, and thinking “It’s in the bag”, because your grades are high, or because everyone always says how capable you are.

If you have the above, maybe you get a head start on achieving your goals, but if you don’t put the effort in, and expect that things will just come to you, it ain’t happening, mate.

Whereas, if you are not ‘blessed’ with the same academic abilities, or even sporting prowess, of others, that doesn’t mean you give up.

Having the belief in yourself and the attitude to match will give you a boost, then the work you put in will shoot you higher than ‘Mr Haunches’ above.

Because you know you aren’t there ‘yet‘. That is the key word.

Yet.

Yet will give you the belief that it will happen, and you are working towards it. You haven’t given up because someone said you aren’t good enough.

No. You are going to keep trying and practicing, and believing.

And you’ll do it!

I’ll share a little quote I love to keep in my mind.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

Oscar Wilde

You can still reach unimaginable heights, as long as you belive.

So… tell me, have you ever been told you won’t be able to do something which you have been able to prove them wrong about?

Have a peaceful Sunday Peeps  And enjoy your week! ❤ 

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5 Editing Terms All Indie Authors Should Know #GuestPost by Claire Jennison – Ritu Bhathal

Some fantastic information about Editing and jargon for indie authors. Head over to my other site to read.

Link below.

As a writer, we have the craft to create worlds, characters, and their stories. Inside our heads, those stories run like an all-singing, all-dancing movie. (Well, they do in mine…) but do our…

Source: 5 Editing Terms All Indie Authors Should Know #GuestPost by Claire Jennison – Ritu Bhathal

#SoCS June 6/2020 – Fan

Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week:

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “fan.” Use it by itself or find a word that starts or ends with it. Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Fantastic prompt word form our Linda, don’t you think?

Hmmm, gotta say, I love a fan. You know the folding ones that you can spread out and use in the heat. Because, God knows, I am not great with heat. Yup, this is the girl who slowly melts as the temperatures go up.

Make up and I are not fans of each other in the heat. either. I always remember the makeup artist on my wedding day. She tried her hardest to convince me that I needed A-grade cement filler style foundation, because of all the lights and cameras that would be on me.

(She’s not wrong. An Indian wedding is nothing short of a Bollywood film in the making, when it comes to the filming, and the guests like the couple’s fans. Equipment may be smaller and more advanced now, but then, nearly twenty years ago, there were cameera men with huge cameras hoisted upon shoulders, or on tripods, big lights set up, and photographers too. The amount of times people would get angry as the film-maker was more intent on getting the ‘take’ right, rather than actuall allowing a wedding to take place smoothly! Thank goodness there is more discretion, nowadays!)

Anyway, back to my story. I knew that, despite the wedding being in November, the heat of the lamps, and all those guests in one place, would result in whatever face I had painted on, sliding down my own face, and coming to rest somewhere around my neck. So I refused, buying my own lightweight base, thank you very much!

All’s well that ends well. The makeup stayed on pretty solidly, my skin could still breathe and I only lost one of my false eyelashes, at 9pm that night, after crying so much at the departing scene of the movie wedding.

Fan-bloody-tastic!

June 4: Flash Fiction Challenge – Just Desserts

Charli’s Carrot Ranch Prompt this week:

June 4, 2020, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about justice for all. It does not have to take place in America. Injustice exists anywhere. What is the story behind justice for all? Go where the prompt leads!

Just Desserts

She walked into the kitchen, sniffing around for snacks.

Always hungry, that one.

Could never resist my cupcakes. There she goes, into my cake box…

Ha! Go on, eat that old collection of My Little Pony toys!

All those years I craved ice cream, and would reach to the carton in the freezer, only to find another frozen curry, or opened the biscuit tin for a cookie, and instead, pulled out a sewing kit… typical Indian mum trick.

Wouldn’t buy decent Tupperware, instead using all the old food containers and fooling us.

Finally, Mum, you got your just desserts!

Author 2020 Series: Ritu Bhathal – Penning and Planning

Another week, another feature!

This Author 2020 blog series is for fiction and nonfiction indie authors who have either already published, or are due to publish, a book in 2020!

Source: Author 2020 Series: Ritu Bhathal – Penning and Planning

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