Start Your Life Now: The Dream Factory

By Linda Mercury

Sometimes, you have to take a look at your life and decide if where you are at is really where you want to be. Inspired by The Cafe of Hopes and Dreams by Shea MacLeod and Linda Mercury, original art and thought-provoking questions help you determine how to get to where you want to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Mercury
• Release date: Nov 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215822241

Linda Mercury

Linda Mercury ia a writer and creator of really unusual fictional worlds. More than anything, she cares about compassion, connection, and intimacy. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and has a redwood tree in her backyard.

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By Linda Mercury

Based on The Café of Hopes and Dreams

by Shéa MacLeod and Linda Mercury

A Note from Linda

Welcome to Start Your Life Now!

This book of affirmations divides into the three general themes of pleasure, authenticity, and elevation. I created this collection of art and words to help you make the kind of life you want for yourself.

This book has an unusual origin. In my book, The Café of Hopes and Dreams (co-authored by Shéa Macleod), each chapter starts with an affirmation. I liked these affirmations so much that I created art and writing prompts for each one. The fictional book, Start Your Life Now, helped the heroine move away from a life that stifled everyone involved into one that liberated her and those around her.

If you are stuck, if you are having trouble moving beyond a place or situation that leaves you miserable, I hope these little affirmations will lighten your heart, help you find solutions, and as always, remind you that you are not alone.

There are people out there in this world who believe in you and want you to live the life you always wanted. I want you to succeed.

Adore yourself and see what happens.

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Love,

Linda Mercury

P.S. I hope this book helps you make good things happen. Let me know!

Acknowledgements:

Thank you to Coral Mallow, MFA, for her art lessons.

Thank you to Shéa Macleod, the best co-author ever.

Thank you to The Charming Man, for the photography and image formatting.

Thank you to C. Morgan Kennedy, for inviting me along on her beach retreat.

Dedication:

To everyone who ever had to start over.

Delight is the medicine to overcome mediocrity.

Pleasure

Two gold patterned hearts decorate a hot pink and gold background.

In the majority go-getter culture, people say that excellence is the medicine to overcome mediocrity. Excellence is a magnificent goal and we all love to swing for the bleachers.

Except when you can’t. If you deal with any kind of