I think it should be the national holiday instead of Presidents’ Day. While Presidents’ Day invites us to honor the past and the great men who paved the way to bring us to our present state, Valentine’s Day offers us the opportunity to celebrate this moment in highest vibration right now. Frankly, I believe that this moment of expressing love’s high vibration is far more valuable than regurgitating the past. President Obama reflects often on President Abraham Lincoln, not to dwell on the past, but to use his thoughts and decisions as models for moving forward and setting precedents that will serve us in the near future. This is an intelligent present use of the past to chart the future without repeating the mistakes of the past.

The present is where the power is. The present is the only opportunity to create anew. Some writers, when they grow frustrated with developing new ideas, have the tendency to drift to pleasurable thoughts of finished projects. It’s so much more comfortable to wallow in past glories than it is to wade through the morass of the muddled story before us. I find that when I love what I’m writing now, sending ‘valentines’ to my current project instead of doting on what I’ve already written, I make much more progress. My secret for doing this is to create characters that I love.

Send valentines to your current writing efforts and let go of the great stuff you’ve already created. Your finished scripts are now your product that you want to market. They are like grown children on their way out into the world. You still love them, but they don’t need the nurturing and care that they once did. That nurturing and care goes to your current baby. Hopefully, you listen to it when it cries out to you during the night. Do you respond with tender loving parental care and get up and tend it, or do you roll over, cover your head with a pillow, and go back to sleep?

I find that it is necessary to have regular feeding times. Common knowledge tells us that regular attention of nurture and care builds the strong bones of structure and character. The greatest nurturing comes from the affection you embrace it with. Sometimes it presents some frustration and confusion. That’s when I find that I have to lift my vision of it by returning in thought to that moment of conception. I reconnect with that original inspiration. Then my creative energy becomes reignited, I am restored, and my frustrations end. It’s all about heart!