Looking out the Window: Tracy Wainwright Shares Thoughts on Staying Focused. She also Talks about Her Fruit of the Spirit Series and Shifting Goals, Book 5
A Warm Welcome to Tracy Wainwright
Hi Tracy, Thanks for Sharing Your Thoughts about Staying Focused and Telling Us about Your Series
Staying Focused
Has your mind ever written checks that your body can’t cash? If you just smiled, you know what I mean. If not, hang with me.
I’m an idea person. I think most creatives are. We thrive on creating and our brains are constantly coming up with an idea or project or book plot. The problem comes with constraints of time, motivation and focus.
I’ve always marveled at people who’ve tackled NaNoWriMo, as my holiday preparations always seem to take up the entire month of November as well as December. Plus, there always seems to be extra events, conferences, bonfires, and gatherings during November. Now, don’t get me wrong, I get not everyone’s lives are the same, which probably contributed to the success of for 20 years. However, after two decades, it looks like they, too, may have bitten off more than they could chew.
But this isn’t just about a writer organization shutting down or even the business of the holiday season leading us from fall to winter. It’s about staying focused on the tasks that God gives us and being faithful in them. Something I’ve failed at all too often.
This isn’t a long enough format to get into all the things that play a roll into writing a dozen million dollar idea “checks” when I’m having a great (and possibly caffeine-infused) day and letting all the balls drop, missing deadlines, or putting something off due to unexpected life events, illnesses, ADHD, or self-doubt and incrimination. All those issues play a role. What the problem boils down to, however, is a lack of doing what I know is best: seeking God for every detail of every day and only saying “yes” to the tasks He’s given me.
My life is not my own, but it’s more comfortable, fun, and dopamine-hitting to do the tasks I want to do. To distract myself. To waste time. To eat whatever I feel like eating whenever I feel like it.
If your toes just got bruised, you’re in good company.
I’m sure I’ll fall off the wagon again, but not as many times or as often as I once did. Because I know that God has the best in store for me, that doesn’t always look like how I expected, and I need more discipline in focus and faithfulness, I’m sharing with you my commitment to start each day asking the Lord, “What would You have me spend my time on today?”
My flesh is not very happy about this question. I know through experience and His Word, though, that the rewards will be more than I could ever hope, think, or ask.
About the Fruit of the Spirit Series
Readers follow four friends on their journeys of love, heartbreak, faith, and motherhood.
Fruit of the Spirit series on Pelican
About Fruit of the Spirit Book 5, Shifting Goals
In Shifting Goals, Katie Mitchell's world turns upside down when her teenage son James suffers a devastating jet ski accident that threatens not only his baseball dreams but his very faith. As medical bills mount and recovery proves more challenging than expected, Katie finds herself questioning everything she believed about God's plan while desperately clinging to hope.
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Bio: Tracy's been writing for 20 years, She has 17 books published (self and traditional) and 8 books due to release in the next year. She loves sharing God's truths through story-telling and does so through fiction, nonfiction, and speaking. In addition to writing her own books, Tracy loves helping other authors produce works of excellence through editing, coaching, presenting at writers' conferences, and ghostwriting. She squeezes all this in the middle of being a wife, homeschool mom of 4 (3 graduated now!), volunteer at her church, and most recently running for her local Board of Supervisors.
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