Today’s assignment is to commit to 30 days of doing something without breaking the chain.  After 30 days I get a prize of my choosing.  I am going to commit to actually doing these exercises and blogging them daily for 30 days.  As for my prize…I’ll have to think about that.  I can pick anything!!!

Today’s assignment is to Write a Fan Letter.

Dear Dr. Martha Beck,

Thank you for all the help and guidance you have given to me in my life.  I have read every one of your books and every article written in O the Oprah magazine.  At night before I go to sleep, I read a few pages of Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.  I call you my guru when quoting you to others.

Part of my connection to your writing is the religious element.  I read your book Leaving The Saints about your strict religious background that you broke away from to create the life you have now.  Only someone who has survived such an experience can understand.  Knowing you have come from that place makes me trust your advice all the more and makes it more relevant to my own experience.

I have become more open to the spiritual element in my life thanks to meditation exercises, written exercises, and insightful quotes that you have shared in your books.  I’ve begun writing as a future career path thanks to reading Finding Your Own North Star.  And the monthly articles in O give great, useful, life advice that I have shared with many a friend in crisis.  I hope someday I can afford to hire you as a Life Coach or attend a retreat, but in the meantime I’ll garner all the wisdom I can from your writing.

The fact that you love and quote Mary Oliver is the icing on the cake.  You spur me to heroic adventures that “break my heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”

Thank you for your loving help through your heartfelt writing,

Rebekah Marshall