Julie and Julia

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231 days and counting down until I turn 50

Wow! I have publicly announced to the world that this year I will be turning 50!  In 33 weeks, 231 days, exactly. I constantly tell people that age is just a number, which it is and then completely fail to admit my true age. You see, I am very blessed with amazing family genes, which means I look considerably younger than I actually am. So it has been easy to just nod and agree when someone guesses my age at little over 40 and sometimes younger! A little harder to explain when I say I have two adult children aged 24 and 22 however I just quickly say I had them very young!

Why am I sharing this now? Well I recently started writing articles for my new blog without any real direction. But tonight after work I sat down to chill out after another extremely busy and hectic day, to watch a movie that my sister dropped in and ordered me to watch and return by 10pm to the DVD store.  The movie was Julie/Julia, the true life story of Julia Child's story and her start in the cooking profession which is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. The light bulb finally came on for me while I was watching this superb storyline.  When Julie Powell was about  to turn 30 and was underemployed with an unpublished novel, she decided to seize the day and cook her way through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in a year and to blog about it.

Julia Child and Julie Powell were separated by time and space; both women were at loose ends… until they discovered that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, that anything is possible. I try to minimize the amount of butter in my daily diet however what I do have in common with Julie and Julia is passion for what I do, fearlessness to take on new challenges and an absolute belief that anything is possible! Their story has inspired me to do what Julie Powell did. She set herself a time challenge to keep herself on track, focused and accountable.

What could I possibly set as my time challenge and what would people like to read about? The only thing I could come up with was my complete avoidance of being happy to celebrate that I was turning 50 this year.  So I have decided to be fearless and admit it to the world and write about my journey for the next 231 days. I am single, so at the end of every day I don't have someone to sit and listen to how my day was – good, bad or downright ugly so from today I am now going to write my daily thoughts in my blog and send them out into cyberspace for anyone and everyone to read. Here goes ….

Day 1 of 231.

Today I signed off with my publisher for the final typesetting and book cover approval for my first book "Sold for Top Dollar – Low Cost Housing Improvements to Maximize your Sale". Very soon I will have a print ready copy in my hot little hands and it will be off to the printers. It is hard to believe that it was 2 years ago when I first had the seed of an idea to write my story about renovating, selling and staging houses for profit. But today I have been pinching myself to accept as true that finally not only have I realised my dream of writing a book to inspire others but I actually have my own publicity agent.  Today my publicity agent sent through for my approval the first press release that is going out to be sent out to all sorts of media announcing the imminent release of my book and the first of many book launches that I have planned for this year.

It is all very exciting and scary at the same time but that's how my life has been for the past 5 years, one exciting, scary day after another! My “Sacked to Successful” story started 5 years ago…………….but that’s another story for another day.

Until tomorrow

Charyn Youngson

Tagged as: Julia Childs, Julie and Julia, Julie Powell, Sold for Top Dollar