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Maggie Ann Ryan is an author (fiction & poetry) who is fascinated about creating a life in which she feels confident, beautiful, and like she belongs. She writes about awkward young women with big dreams who fall in love, make mistakes, and follow their passions. Check It Out

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This is the hardest part. It’s past believing in

This is the hardest part. It’s past believing in yourself. It’s knowing you can.

Belief — is found in faith. Proof isn’t necessary for belief. In a way, it’s a thought that you believe is true. A thought — is inside your mind. Sometimes you speak it out loud, but mostly it’s not even tangible. It’s a thought.

Knowing — is found in proof. You know you can because you can see your talent and feel your drive to succeed. You’ve witnessed yourself reach a finish line before (even if it’s just in your #peloforwine class). In a way, knowing is a belief that is SO STRONG and based in proof and action, it becomes external.

Do you get the difference?

It’s easy. “I believe I can.” Vs “I know I can.”

That is all! Off to work in the office today. It rained yesterday and I finished editing through chapter 4 yesterday, which means I can rewrite chapter 5!

Super excited about this, because my free spirited barista just had an extremely embarrassing “almost kiss” with... #spoilers! 😉

♡ Maggie Ann

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I wish I had a green thumb. But tbh, I’ve murder

I wish I had a green thumb. But tbh, I’ve murdered every single plant I’ve tried to grow. 🪴

But I’m pretty good at healing my own roots. Fear is the great antagonist, because we are naturally afraid of So. Many. Things.

And NOT just external things.

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve realized how afraid I am of my own power. My own emotion. My own desires. My own ... ability.

And we turn that fear into hate, because it’s much easier to hate what you are afraid of than it is to love it. (Ahem, talking about you bugs 🐞)

I think most people assume the opposite of “hate” is “love”, but I disagree.

I believe we conquer our fears with COURAGE. And in its place, we find love.

And that is why the opposite of “hate” is “life”.

Because a life lived in fear is nothing. But a life lived with courage and love... that’s everything.

♡ Maggie Ann

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Let me eat my cake and have it, too. ✌️ Have y

Let me eat my cake and have it, too. ✌️ Have you ever wondered why you are on this planet? Is our purpose really just to live?

If that were true, then I think our brains would all be the same. But in reality, we all see and perceive and experience the world differently.

Some people see the world through vivid color, while others see it through numbers and equations.

Some people see the world through story and emotion, while others see it through experience and physical movement.

I can imagine the oxygen in my breath glowing through my veins, and see a poem there — so obvious to me — but I still count on my fingers to do basic math.

I can feel the warm spring breeze coming down from the mountains, and I know this planet is alive. Others feel the same breeze, and think, it is spring now.

Both are beautiful thoughts, aren’t they? I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but basically, I bought a #carrotcake for Easter and I put on fake eye lashes but no foundation, and I really enjoyed the usual family debates and topics over coffee.

Can you have your cake and eat it, too? Can you have everything you want in life?

If you align your life with HOW you are built (instead of trying to be something you aren’t), and WHO you are meant to be (instead of living behind a facade so others will like you), I honestly think the answer is yes.

Here’s to cake! 🍴

♡ Maggie Ann

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Posting this poem is vulnerable. This is a side of

Posting this poem is vulnerable. This is a side of me I keep hidden inside my journals, but I write about it a lot. Where I am going, who I want to be, what I need to do to get there. It intrigues me because if life is like a book, then what’s my hero’s journey? You know?

I am of the *strongest* belief ... that your best work will always be vulnerable. The secret parts of you are the parts that speak out the loudest. Because they are real. And when your art is real, it connects with real people. Which is, in a way, the goal.

But the reason I love this poem so much is because it shows that there is connection in life. Our world is made up of so many layers, and everything feels separate and different from us, but once you add in God (or a higher power, the universe, the divine), everything connects.

It’s a really beautiful moment. 🥰
Have a great weekend!! I’ll be writing and sunning with Bodie on the back of my pickup truck 🙃

♡ Maggie Ann

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Think about it for a second. Our shadows follow us

Think about it for a second. Our shadows follow us around — the painful memories we hold on to so tightly — how many of them have already healed? And how many do we continue to believe are still there, when in fact, they are not?

♡ Maggie Ann

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This is one of my favorite ways to write, actually

This is one of my favorite ways to write, actually. When you wake up, grab your pen and write down exactly what you saw. What you experienced. What you felt. Keep it simple, close your journal, and in a month or so go back to that page and read it again.

It’s beautiful.

♡ Maggie Ann

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<<swipe<< 🌱 This is from one of my favorite poe

<<swipe<< 🌱 This is from one of my favorite poems in my book, “I Am Myself”. If you’ve ever felt like someone disqualified you by just looking at you, I wrote “I Am Myself” for you. (Link in bio brings you to the Barnes and Noble page)

I’ve been thinking a lot about what we think disqualifies us and what really does.

We are made up of:
1. Past Experiences
2. Past Choices (including choosing not to choose)
3. Desires and Dreams and Wants

We are seen as:
1. Age
2. Race
3. Gender

How we are seen affects our past experiences. But it only INTERNALLY affects our choices. And it has no say on our dreams.

Because NONE of these things disqualify you.

The path to success is 3-fold:
1. Work Ethic
2. Not Giving Up
3. Emotional Strength/Courage/Confidence to say “nah you’ve got me wrong” to all the judgement thrown at your through out your life.

The key is to stop letting your past experiences and your past choices make today’s choice.

Choose your dream, always.

And remember — the ONLY thing that disqualifies you is choosing to give up. 🌻

You, are amazing. 😘

♡ Maggie Ann

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Penny for your thoughts? Sometimes I wonder if fee

Penny for your thoughts? Sometimes I wonder if feeling like a failure is a sign that we should KEEP GOING.

Like, maybe failure is MEANT TO BE PART OF IT. Part of our own success story.

Maybe feeling like a failure, somewhere along the way, turns into FUEL that drives us to the work ethic we need to actually make it happen.

And that’s the turning point. When feeling like a failure stops STOPPING you, and starts to MOTIVATE you instead... that’s when you succeed.

Would you rather fail a million times and succeed? Or never fail (and never succeed)?

What are your two cents?

♡ Maggie Ann

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