If you’re like me you get discouraged when you want to achieve something so badly, can’t seem to make it happen, yet everyone around you is doing it like it’s no big deal.
I remember when I was trying to get pregnant with baby Blue. I always knew a few days in advance when that month wasn’t THE month, because I would suddenly be faced with an unbelievable number of pregnant women, women with babies… and pregnant women with babies. (Shoot — my fertility doctor, acupuncturist and a urologist were knocked up during my darkest hours—the urologist had twins to boot).
But no matter what you’re striving for—writing a book, running a 10K, landing a job, making the team, getting your child into THE preschool—no matter how easy the next guy makes it look, keep this in mind: that guy is struggling with something too. Those women I saw month after month might’ve gotten pregnant just by looking at their men, but they might not be able to cook mac & cheese like I can.
And maybe they really, really want to… and just don’t know how to make it happen.