Subject: 🔵 connect the dots. how to get from here to there?

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🔵 🟢 connect the dots. how to get from here to there?



Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025

Hi Friend,

You are here.


You know, on the colored dot on the map of your life.


Looking at that map, where do you want to go?


What is the end point?


Maybe a finished first draft.


Yay!


So here's the questions I get all the time:


How do I get from here to there?


How do I connect the dots?


I could be silly and say, Follow the bouncing ball.


But that's silly.


Really, it's only about the next step.


Maybe the next risky little bit risky next step.


So I ask you, what is the next smallest little bit risky next step for you?


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Happy Writing!



Best,

Beth


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