How The Four Agreements Can Help You Start The New Year Right!

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“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.”

~ Elie Wiesel

Sometimes authors receive bad reviews or someone tweets/posts something mean about them or their work; they react, typically, with emotion. It’s a natural human reaction. Instead of crying to their dog, or eating chocolate ice cream with their vodka, they embark on an anti-hero’s journey:

• Some lash out, contacting the reader or reviewer in a battle of unnecessary words, and let’s face it, things get nasty. (I do not recommend this course of action.)
• Others may vent about the ridiculousness of the review or reviewer in a sub-tweet or sub-post on Facebook or IG (meaning, they don’t name the person but talk about them anyway — kind of a non-gossipy form of gossip). It’s like writing a letter you only send to your friends about he or she Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
• And some go off on a social media rant, not because they received bad reviews (one author, in particular, received glowing reviews of her latest release, in fact), but because the New York Times didn’t add them to the most ‘Notable’ books of the year.