(PART TWO AND MY LAST SHAMELESS OFFER OF
THE CANDLE MAKER)
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I wrote this book over twenty years ago
without giving much thought
to exactly who might actually be reading it
some twenty years later
without giving much thought
that most of those reading it. . .
I didn’t even know
or hadn’t ever met then
B U T
the one common thread
to this tapestry
was always the hope that it would do
FOR YOU
FOR OTHERS
what it had already done for me. . .

The Premise
is also the Promise:
IF YOU’RE NOT BRINGING THE LIGHT
YOU’RE ADDING TO THE DARKNESS

Most of my life
people have asked me,
“WHAT’S YOUR SECRET?
Why are you always upbeat?
Why do you never seem to have a bad day or let things get you down?
THE CANDLE MAKER
is my answer. . .
It’s the shortest book
that’ll take you a year to read
l i t e r a l l y
because every day
it invites you to read
one of the
Candle Maker’s Lessons
(there are 12 of them)
three times a day
(morning, afternoon, before bed)
(90 seconds)
for 365 days. . .
JUST DOING THAT
is kind of life-changing. . .
Out of the some 18.6 million
self-help books published last year
each tell a different perspective
that worked for
each individual author
which means it may not actually work
FOR YOU
but it’s worth the venture
in finding out
or best yet
cutting/pasting
what works and doesn’t work
FOR YOU. . .
which is why
I’m sharing the first of the twelve
Candle Maker’s Lessons
(Don’t wait to start something when you can begin IT now)

THERE ARE SOME THINGS I CANNOT LEARN IN THE PLACE I AM SEEING THE LIGHT. . .

So I will look. . .look. . .look and trust that where there is darkness–the light is sure to come.
I can only see can find if I’m truly seeking in the right places. I will make where I am the only right place to be today.
This day I will spend my time, not just in seeking, for the search will offer up it’s own reward. This day, I will look in the places where only the light shines, not in the darkness, hoping.
If there is any darkness in me, I will save it for another time, for it too, will be illuminated.
For this day, this moment, center stage, even if it’s off left or right, will be the only place in my life where the light happens to be shining, spot-lighting me to be.
By choosing to spend every awakened moment in the light, the dark will neither harm or mis-direct me.
This is the day I’ve been chosen to live. I will throw my head back freely to look up in bask in its warm glow. . . I am thankful for it’s un-flickering guidance.
If I advance to it tomorrow it will only be because I have learned well enough the lessons needed to make the trip and accept this day‘s gift of tomorrow.
I will be blinded always, to the darkness and not from it. The light on my path is sufficient for this day and my time in it.
I will play, work, eat, drink and sleep this day—learning, relaxing, and preparing for all the lessons necessary for this day’s flicker alone.
When this day ends, I will not end with it. I will look on where the light will be kind enough to illuminate my way to richly granted tomorrow.

WILL IT WORK FOR YOU. . .
You’ll never know
UNTIL YOU KNOW

Give yourself a Light
that’ll incinerate
the dark places
having no more
s p a c e
in your life
N O W
CLICK:
TURN ON YOUR LIGHT

and then
S H A R E
I T

The Candle Maker
would like to gently remind you:
DEVOTING YOURSELF TO A CAUSE
DEVELOPES THE CRUSADE
. . .journey on
(e n l i g h t e n e d)

It’s not really much a riddle
as it is an
A S S U R E D I T Y :
What’s the opposite of Black Friday?
ILLUMINATED FRIDAY!
by the bucket full
and sadly
here’s my humble
attempt at trying to
not so much illuminate
your Black Friday
but also to
bring a glow into
the-quickly-coming-New Year ahead. . .

I first self-published The Candle Maker in 2001 and my publisher thought it would be a great idea to come up with a hardback anniversary version of it for this upcoming year of 2021 EARLY for those who might want to give it for a Christmas gift. . .A little schmaltzy, huh, especially when the real reason I wanted to self-publish this “HELP-SELF” book was to not so much have as much command over the total process of publication/distribution (it wasn’t for the $$$ because I’ve spent more making it than selling it) but mostly so that I could literally GIVE IT AWAY!
I give out copies of this book for two of the professional presentations I do:
BURNT OUT IS BURNT OUT and WHAT’S THE USE(S). . .
So here’s the pitch from AMAZON itself which is offering the Hardback and the Paperback:

The Candle Maker Hardcover – March 1, 2001

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This book quite possibly just might not be for you. Don’t be fooled by it’s length. If you’re looking for quick fixes, add water and presto actions, snap of the finger results and all with blink-of-the-eye fastness, this book just might not be for you. However, if you walk with this book three times a day, every day for the next twelve months, you’ll be able to run in the years following with renewed, purposeful steps and in ways this or no other book will ever be able to predict. So this just might prove that the best things in life are not instantaneous…at least not this.

This is not a ‘how-to’ or a ‘self-help’ book either. It’s more of a ‘help-self’ and a ‘want-to’ book. Unfortunately, purchasing this book won’t accomplish the task for which you have purchased it. No magical osmosis process here whereby you gain vast amounts of insight or wisdom merely by having the book or holding it a certain way for a certain amount of time at certain parts of the day. Apply yourself first to it and it will more than apply itself back to you.

And one last word: WARNING! This will cost you who you are for what you could become. . .not in a sprint, but rather, during the marathon this encourages you to perform. For the next 364 days live the capacity you are entitled and have been granted. Become like warmed wax that feeds the wick its eternal life source so that you may ultimately be molded–not hardened–but ever remained moldable again and again….

Once upon a time and for ever more learn, know that you can burn the candle at both ends and in the middle because you’ll know FINALLY where to get the wax and the wick and more, you’ll actually be inspired to go and do it.

The World
now more than in our lifetimes
seems more dark
more of a
BLACK FRIDAY
more of a whispy shadow
of what we’d like or
need it to be
without a completed sale
than ever before
and even back as I was writing this book
and self-publishing it
MY GOAL
then
and especially now
WAS TO NEVER TO BE A CANDLE SNUFFER
so much as a
FLAME SHARER

A LIGHT GIVER
with the powerful daily reminder of

Fully knowing that
the flicker I bring
only gets brighter with
the flicker you bring
and brighter still
when joined with
the flicker others bring
so purchased book or not
potential Christmas gift or not
JOIN ME

(Psssssssssssssssssssssssst:
Next Friday’s Blog Post will share the
FIRST CANDLE MAKER’S LESSON
to give you a head start for the New Year)

The Candle Maker Hardcover – March 1, 2001

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