The most important thing is to learn with our past experiences. Life Lesson #4: Accept-and allow-that life is full of everyday magic.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push() įIFA 22 Recommendations – 10 Things to Do and Not to Do Įveryone makes mistakes. It’s about Martha’s seminal life coaching book, Finding Your Own North Star, and it’s all about turtles and compasses. When I open the package and read the proposal, my neck hair stands on end. The packages-her proposal and my secret turtle-cross in the mail. (To this day, I don’t know where this piece of jewelry came from.) After months of nagging, Martha tells me she’s written the article-and based her new proposal on it. “I have the perfect bribe for you,” I tell her, “But you won’t get it until you write that article.” My secret reward for her is a beautiful sterling silver turtle pendant I’ve found at the bottom of my jewelry box inside its tiny carapace is a wee compass. When we wrap up editing, I urge her to “grow her platform” by publishing magazine articles and writing a new book proposal.
Oh, and seriously, dude, learn to type.ĭespite the fact that my publishing company puts the world’s most butt-ugly cover on Breaking Point and markets it with all the zest of an ad campaign for reclaimed hair plugs, Martha allows me to edit her luminous memoir, Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic. Life Lesson #2: A tinch of self-awareness might save you some grief. Couldn’t I have eliminated the middleman somewhere? I open my first paycheck: I’m making $175 a week. Hot doggies, I’m getting paid to read books and edit them, something I’ve loved since I’d worked at a publisher during high school, where I made $175 a week. After graduation, I use my typing skills to get a job at Scribner’s as an editorial assistant. My creative writing seminars, in contrast, are easy and a total blast, but I don't have the courage to switch majors. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale, a major I've chosen solely for its "wow" factor. Against all odds, I learn to type like the wind.
Kane’s Typing ClassĪnd there’s just one unclaimed typewriter left-a dud with the keys painted over with Wite-Out so I can’t possibly cheat.
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