231 | Missing Chapters

I’m writing a book that’s been in my head for a decade, almost two.

It started as thoughts and observations that I couldn’t turn into words.

Then it was actually helping people with their finances.

Then it was helping people and getting thoughts into words.

And the combination of helping and writing is when the book started to take shape - an endless cycle of practicing what I preach and preaching what I practice.

And all of it seems to be helping people connect the dots.

But inevitably, there are a couple chapters that leave people scratching their head because the practice isn’t quite the preaching.

Because right now, in my sliver of the industry, some sections of the book can’t be published.

The missing chapters would be too hard for the current publisher to sell.

Many days those missing chapters feel like they’re a silly thing to hold so tightly.

“Just get over them, they are too petty to make a stink.”

“Someone would have already written them if they were actually that important.”

But then there are the days that I see someone longing for them or that I have to recite their placeholder chapters as if they are the real thing.

And those are the days they seem like the key that unlocks the future that I so desperately dream of building.

I want to believe, and on the best days do believe, that the missing chapters will make it a masterpiece.