Robert M.’s Post

I wrote a book I’m really proud of. That sentence took me a while to be able to say out loud. Not because I doubted the work or the effort, but because I spent years being the person who 'almost' wrote a book. The person who almost let my maybe become no. Until I said yes. Maybe next year. Maybe when things settle down. Maybe when I feel more ready. Maybe. That word became everything to me. Not as an excuse, but as a doorway. I started asking what “maybe” actually means. Where it comes from. What it costs us. What it tries to protect us from. And somewhere in that question, a framework emerged — seven stages that map what actually happens when you’re standing between the life you have and the life you’re not sure you deserve. The book is called Maybe: Turn What-Ifs into Brave Next Steps. It’s also deeply personal. There are stories in it I’ve rarely, if ever, told publicly. About the employee who longed to be a professional songwriter. About the songwriter who was pretty damn sure the world didn't need another love song. About burning the candle at both ends and the middle in order to balance a corporate career and a creative drive I was done pretending didnt exist. Those weren’t separate lives. They were the same maybe, wearing very different clothes. I wrote this book for the people who are mid-maybe right now. The ones sitting with something unfinished, something unnamed, something they’re not ready to say out loud yet. You don’t have to be ready. The maybe is enough to start. My book is here. And I’m proud of it. https://a.co/d/0bGJj8Yz