Who do you rely on? In the last two weeks, I have had to ask myself this very question. Trust is an important part of being human, as is faith. But there are things we can not anticipate that come our way that can shake our world. My daughter’s fiance’s flight was cancelled two hours before he was due to board and I have had several of my support team fall ill. This comes after I had been ill for over two weeks, following a spell of burnout, and then my bank rejected all my incoming Amazon royalty payments because of some change in code. The list is longer than I care to mention in this message, but one could say that I have had a spell of bad luck and I was certainly feeling fragile. If we want to move forward in life, making plans and setting goals is important and misfortunate has a way of challenging the viability of those goals. While we may have to delay some of our plans, we should never be tempted to give up or give in to despair or harden our hearts towards others. In the last year, I adopted a ritual of writing my wins every morning. I make sure I write a minimum of ten wins that I had the preceding day - even if it the tinniest of wins. It is my reset time. While I can not control some of the surrounding chaos, I can control how I claim those first few moments of the day. There are days where I stare at my notebook while all the troubles of the previous day pollute my thoughts, taunting my ability to even find one win. I have taken to standing at the kitchen counter while I write down my wins, because I know that as soon as I sit at my desk; I will get distracted and won’t take the time to reset my mind. TI learned about writing my wins from the Uncovering Greatness team and it is a daily ritual that I defend because it is one of the few tools I have to reclaim my power when the odds are stacked against me. Because we know that at some point the things that we rely on may whither or perish, but nothing can claim the human spirit unless we allow it.Whatever you are going through, I pray you will find the courage to reclaim your personal power.#findingcourage #adayinthelifeofanauthor #personalpower #medievalfatasy #christianauthors