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APX-VI-0049

“After the divorce the page is blank and it's mine alone to fill.”

APX · Pillar II — Apex APX-VI · Reject the Victim. Become the Author.

You could spend the rest of it cataloguing who did what to whom — and stay the victim of a story that's already over. Or you can write on a blank life that's yours alone to author for the first time in years. The ending was real. The next chapter is unwritten and entirely yours. Start filling the page.

Your Practice

  1. Stop relitigating the past. The verdict on who was wrong won't free you.
  2. Write one thing about the new life that's yours to decide, and decide it.
  3. Reclaim one thing the marriage had crowded out. Do it this week.
  4. Aim the energy forward. The pen only writes ahead.

The Architects

“For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance statement, 1954

More under APX-VI

APX-VI-0001“I keep telling myself I'm a victim of my circumstances.”APX-VI-0002“I stopped making excuses and started making moves.”APX-VI-0003“I took full ownership of my life and everything changed.”APX-VI-0004“I've been blaming everyone else for where I am in life.”APX-VI-0005“I successfully rebuilt a habit I'd lost.”APX-VI-0006“I've been waiting for permission to pursue what I actually want.”
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