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I'm no longer directionally challenged--I have a clear vision to celebrate #MOREin2014 via GANEPossible.com. Preempting my novel in progress, Bluebirds, I'm very close to releasing my first GANE Possible publication (prescriptive "Dr. Mom" nonfiction), Beating the Statistics: A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Fertility, Halt Autism & Help Her Child Grow From Behavior Failure to Behavior Success. I'm also working on completing my memoir, My Grandfather's Table: Learning to Forgive Myself First.

It took a lifetime to get here. This blog documents my quest to self-fulfillment through my writing, and ultimately to shifting my focus to Beating the Statistics & My Grandfather's Table and speaking about them. They are the wellness and the memoir parts of my journey that had to be told, so that Bluebirds can one day be the meaningful, but fictional *story* it aspires to be.

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What's the Secret to Making 2013 YOUR Best Year Ever?

12/31/2012

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I'd have to say that 2012 has been one of my best years, and I know without a doubt that it's due to something that changed within me. 

You've heard it before, and I'm going to say it again:  ATTITUDE.  Yes, it turns out, Attitude is Everything, and we ALL have the power to get there.  Now don’t stop reading because you think you’ve heard it before…give me a chance to explain:

When life gave me lemons (ie: living so far away from the place and the people I love), I Made Lemonade.  I Decided.  I Took Control.  I Took Action.  I Took Risks.  I DID SOMETHING.  I started to blog and I took creative writing classes, and I started my website, West Coast Posse, and I submitted an essay that was accepted and will be included in a BOOK this year!  Not only that, I'm writing my own book, and if I must, I will self-publish it this year.  I started this book YEARS ago.  It sat on my computer, it moved from computer to computer, but suddenly something switched inside of me, and I began actively pursuing ways to make it happen.  And.  It.  Will.  I will complete and publish, Bluebirds, the novel I know I was always meant to write, in 2013.

Now I'm a pretty determined chick, and I've done this before.  When I couldn't get pregnant, I Took Control.  I Took Action.  I DID SOMETHING.  When modern medicine failed me, I doggedly pursued and researched ways of improving my chances.  I questioned.  I changed.  I adapted.  I kept my goals of having a baby in my mind every waking moment, and I doggedly pursued my chosen path.  The path that spoke to me in whispers.  I was quiet, and I listened.  I didn't allow anything to shake me.  I kept at it, and kept at it, until I met success.  After six long years and one miscarriage, GlutenNaziMom was born, and so was GlutenNaziKid.  He'll turn ten years old in 2013. And in 2013, GlutenNaziMom, the website that I started four years ago, will actually become something.

I wanted to be a stay at home mom.  It felt like the right thing to do, and I have loved it.  Not every moment.  But overall, there’s nothing better I could have possibly done with the last 9.75 years than to see two daughters through adolescence and to see each of them, in her own way, get married (both in the last quarter of) this past year, and to see one spectacular little boy successfully navigate fourth grade. 

Being a SAHM has put a lot of pressure on my husband.  It’s cost us financially, but so did me working and being unhappy in one unfulfilling job after another.  I couldn’t see how to do both, but I’ve felt this niggling at the back of my mind that I was the key.  I was the key to my family’s financial freedom; to my own sense of purpose and fulfillment.  I’ve written my entire life, and it’s something I’ve gone back to again and again.  But I lacked the confidence to test the waters before.  They remain largely untested, but instead of ignoring the niggling, I’m listening.  I’m listening to that little voice inside of me, who’s been telling me for years that this was something I needed to do.  I’m not standing outside the fence, watching the merry-go-round of life happen to everyone else.  I’m not being a victim of circumstances that brought us back home and unemployed, I’m USING everything that’s happened before, everything that I know, every person I’ve met along the way, and I’m putting all the pieces together to make something happen in 2013. 

And I couldn’t have done it without each one of you.  Without every positive comment that gave me wings, and every negative comment that made me try harder, I could never have kept striving, kept believing, kept writing.  DOING SOMETHING, whether it elicits positive response or negative, is so very much better than living in a void, than doing absolutely nothing but waking up every morning and taking up space—than sucking the Light out of the Universe.

So I’m giving back.  You bet your sweet bippy, I’m USING what I know and who I know, but at the same time, I’m promoting others.  I’m sharing the love and the knowledge and the insight and the LIGHT and the belief that what I’ve learned in my forty-six years on this earth, and what you’ve learned in yours, can help others; can make life better and the future brighter for those who choose to Listen and to Take Action and to Start Something in their own little corner of the globe.  What’s Your Calling?

I now know that for each of us, We Are the Key.  Inside every one of us lies the power to stop complaining and stop sniveling and stop spreading doom and destruction and misery; to stop passing blame, but rather, to use everything we know to share and to inspire and to make THIS the year everything turns around.  Fiscal Cliff, be damned!  I’m not holding my breath and waiting for the government to fix my existence.  I’m going out there and making it happen for myself, for my family, and for anyone who wants to Decide—who wants to Choose—who wants to Take Action and come along.  If we each look inside and make it Our Responsibility and Our Purpose, and spread that Attitude and Intention to our neighbors and around our blocks and around our towns and around Our Nation and maybe even the WORLD—we Each Have the Power to Make 2013 The Best Year We’ve Ever Known!

26 Comments
Lola
12/31/2012 07:57:25 am

Bravo Kim! You know why I love your writing so much? You can toss words together like no one I know...but with you, it's where it comes from. You always manage to bring it from a place of love and joy, and that my dear...is a true gift. Thank you for the inspiration!

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:43:45 pm

Aww, you're making me blush, Lola! I've learned from wise, wonderful, loving women like you! <3

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Anita
12/31/2012 08:34:52 am

Bravo my friend! Your enthusiasm is catching, and I'm finding that voice, that internal lion, that strong willed, confidant WOMAN who also raised a child all by her lonesome and did a damn fine job. My God, if we can do THAT - raise confidant, strong, intelligent, loving HUMAN BEINGS - who are we to doubt anything else we may be capable of? Love you Kimmie, thank you for your inspiration. Look out 2013!

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:42:29 pm

Yes, Yes, YES!! That's what I wanted to hear!!! Absoflogginlutely, my friend!! Look OUT 2013, indeed!!! <3

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Anita
12/31/2012 01:26:11 pm

Thank you Kim, for helping me remember how flippin strong I am. I'm still reeling a bit, but I know what's to come is meant to be and it will better than anything I can imagine. <3

Susan Florian
12/31/2012 09:02:43 am

Happy New Year, Kim! Thank you for your inspiration, love and positive spirit!

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:47:52 pm

To you as well, Susan! THANK YOU for your friendship and support. Keep on keepin' on, my friend.

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Nana Jan
12/31/2012 09:29:14 am

Servanthood with Grace is my calling. I agree with your inspiration.

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:49:28 pm

I can see that in everything you do, Jan. God bless.

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melanie
12/31/2012 09:45:02 am

I love you, Kim! Happy New Year!

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:48:41 pm

Happy New Year to you, Mel! Love you back!

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Darlen
12/31/2012 11:38:40 am

This gave me the chills, I am so proud to say that I know this girl! You have the voice of an angel in both singing and writing.

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:45:19 pm

Welp. You might get to hear the rusty singing yet, Darlene! Stay tuned! And THANK YOU every so much for reading along. <3

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Ani
12/31/2012 12:18:59 pm

This blog made me smile throughout! Here is to a fantastic 2013!! Can't wait to read Bluebirds!!

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Kim Gane link
12/31/2012 12:46:45 pm

And I cannot WAIT to send it to you, Ani!! I'm sure 2013 will bring its own ups & downs, but here's to focusing on the positive!

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Joanne
1/1/2013 04:32:07 am

Kim, you are awesome! Thank you for your inspiration and attitude! I am going to make some BIG changes this year getting my self and my family healthy and organized! May God be glorified with your words for us!

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Kim Gane link
1/2/2013 02:26:49 am

Good for you, Joanne, and good for all of us! We'll all get there so much faster by supporting one another and being positive. Er, ORGANIZED?? Am I supposed to be doing that, too?? Eesh! I'm a WIP, I always say. :/

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Dad link
1/1/2013 06:53:31 am

Believes, "If you can conceive, you can achieve." or, "See it and be it." Steven Covney, Joseph Campbell, Ben Franklin, I believe Aristotle probably said all of that, too.
When I, as a young adult, quit my corporate job to come home and help my community become a better place, I put my family in jeapordy. I gave up the security of health care and solid income listening to a higher calling. I followed my heart. My Daughter suffered from a broken home becoming a person I am proud to say, "lives a life of love."
Her Mommy remains in my heart, as do the other loves I have shared, but the love a Father has for his Daughter is still one of wonder to me. Butterfly kisses, sweetheart. Fly high and believe in greatness. Everyone around you will thrive.
Just look at what "The Ghetto by the Beach" has turned into. All the dubius, sceptical, pecimistic naysayers be damned. (you'll forgive my spelling?)

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Kim Gane link
1/2/2013 02:22:05 am

I had to quit blaming you (and Mom) and start LIVING, Dad! Best comment ever! I LOVE YOU!!! Butterfly kisses back. xo (And yes, I forgive your spelling, as always.)

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Lainey link
1/1/2013 09:21:27 am

I am so proud of you! I can not wait to hear and read all you accomplish in 2013. I love you, your Lainey

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Kim Gane link
1/2/2013 02:24:16 am

Aww, THANK YOU for visiting, Lainey!! And BACK AT YOU, girl!! 2013 is the year of the Woman! I can feel it! <3

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Judy
1/1/2013 11:38:33 am

Right you are....we all have the "choice" (and the voice) within us. I DO believe that 2013 is going to be a fantastic year!! I can't wait to read "Bluebirds"...so, SO exciting! Keep it up girl!!

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Kim Gane link
1/2/2013 02:55:15 am

Judy! You served as a wonderful model for me when you, after 11 years as a SAHM, went back to teaching. That took guts. Thank you for your example, and thank you for your support and encouragement in my endeavors.

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Daryla Stone
1/3/2013 12:58:47 am

We can and will succeed. Loved the message and am striving to these goals. We, together can make a difference. Your voice is being heard. Thank you for sharing and caring. Happy New Year'

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Kim Gane link
1/6/2013 04:08:23 pm

Daryla, so good of you to visit and comment. It is so nice to hear that this post touched you and others. I know 2013 will be wonderful for you!

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