I have just spent over an hour trying to find the story I wrote about this very topic.

Aug 19, 2016·1 min read

I have just spent over an hour trying to find the story I wrote about this very topic. I was sure I’d written it and even looked through all of my responses.

Well, I finally found it — in drafts — started over four months ago! I will get back to it soon because I’d like to share with you.

Danna Reich Colman

Writer and copyeditor. “What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about” ~ J. Wright

I spent a quarter of a century ignoring my potential. For a long time, it was better and easier to pat myself on the back and say, “There, there, you have potential. You could be great.” It’s better than trying and failing, right? For a long time, it was. And then, it suddenly wasn’t. For the last fifteen years, a pressure has been building up in me. For nine of those years, a thera…

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