Becoming Someone New Starts on the Page

The first test of authorship isn’t whether you can write the perfect plan. It’s whether you can face the blank page and admit you are ready to write a different story.

Before you can step into your future self, you have to decide if you are willing to release the story you’ve been telling.

Ask yourself:

• Am I willing to let go of the identity I have outgrown?

• Am I open to seeing myself as more than who I’ve been?

• Will I be resilient enough to keep writing when the old story tries to pull me back?

• Can I begin to act as the person I want to become, even before I fully believe it?

• Do I want to meet the version of me waiting at the end of this letter?

That is the real starting line.

The obstacle is not the words. The obstacle is authorship, taking responsibility for who you will be a decade from now. Every person who has written a 10-Year Letter has stood where you are: facing doubt, choosing courage, and daring to author their future.

“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.” — David Hare

Skip this authorship work and you remain trapped in the story you did not choose. Embrace it and you open the door to who you are becoming.

Question for you: What part of your story have you avoided rewriting because it feels safer to stay the same?