Comments on: Not Ready But Willing

By: protect | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

protect | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:06:35 +0000

[...] ego. Even a seemingly humble blog post can change lives. I once wrote a piece called “not ready but willing” that, truth be told, was about me and my man getting our heads around an unexpected [...]

By: Uncertainty, Ambivalence, Innovation, Creation, Generation. Generation Us. | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:04:53 +0000

[...] (And this was what I was working through – and my way to - when I wrote “Not Ready but Willing“.) [...]

By: Pffffft to Good Intentions and Don’t Even Get Me Started on Patience | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:25:42 +0000

[...] bitch. I’ve never given up on us even though we regularly experience defining moments when I’m ready and he’s only, barely, soon-to-be willing. And that shit tears me up sometimes. This patience gig isn’t [...]

By: Smorgasboard of Awesome #2 | Ega Jones

Smorgasboard of Awesome #2 | Ega Jones — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:12:57 +0000

[...] Not Ready But Willing (This inspired my new goal of being willing to be [...]

By: » The Unfurling of Kelly Diels | Deva Coaching

» The Unfurling of Kelly Diels | Deva Coaching — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:08:01 +0000

[...] posts Not Ready But Willing and The Question I Ask Myself made my heart hurt just a [...]

By: stroke the face of suffering | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

stroke the face of suffering | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:18:21 +0000

[...] And that is the hell of life: we don’t know how it ends. Or even that it does. We don’t know our destinies – or that we have a destiny, at all – and so we wade unprepared through the swamps of misery. We’re never really ready. [...]

By: Justine Musk

Justine Musk — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:42:08 +0000

…and it applies to novel-writing just as much as anything else. This is the form my Resistance takes: not being ready enough. Needing more research, outlining, dreamtime, incubation, life experience, etc.,etc.,etc.

You don’t have to be ready.

You just have to show up.

Thanks for this.

By: Christina Majaski

Christina Majaski — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:17:15 +0000

So true. If we wait to be ready we won’t ever be. I’ve read your blog forever and adore you to death.

I am passing along this blogger award (even if you don’t do awards) because you’re awesome.

http://solitarymama.com/2011/04/thank-you-and-i-mean-that-not-just-because-it-starts-with-a-letter-t/

By: Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:56:24 +0000

[...] I learned that you’re never really ready, but you can sure as hell be willing. [...]

By: Kelly L

Kelly L — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:57:03 +0000

Picture this: sitting at Mellow Mushroom with GFF who I have been going back and forth with for 4 years. She is under a wee bit of a commitment timeline and, at 49, hasn’t shared a home with anyone since the late ’80′s.

I am waiting for pizza reading this post going “wow, wow.” Look over and say “have you read Kelly Diel’s latest?”. On her phone she does.

3 days (4 years?) later she asks, knees a’knockin, and I say yes. She says “that Kelly Diel’s piece really did it”.

You can’t learn to swim on dry land. Sister.

Thank you.