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Hello all my beloved friends,

This phrase has been going around my head since last week, and it was never more appropriate than yesterday in the heat, where the only thing for me to do was to lie down in the shade, in the woods and drink lots of water. Sometimes hiding out is the wisest thing we can do.

But the week before I was thinking of my decision in South Africa, when I realised how much I had been afraid to stand out and be seen, the decision of “No More Hiding”. And yet, I’ve been hiding a lot, in one of my new roles as a carer, and I’ve been doing it extremely well - except instead of hiding up in a tree I’m hiding up in a room to stay out of the way of other carers when they’re on duty. It’s a bit like a story I heard of a man who worked from home, but every day pretended to leave and go to work so that his children wouldn’t follow him to his study.

All of these different concepts rolled into my head - the hiding that we do out of fear of success, the hiding we do behind others, the hiding our work so that we don’t get judged, the hiding by not doing at all, and I wrote a long blog about it, but, as I wandered around getting supplies the day before the real heat hit, it struck me that perhaps instead of “hiding like a mouse” as I was thinking of earlier times, if I look at my actions and honour everything that was going on, for me and in the world around me, I was really always “hiding like a leopard”.

Fear of Success

As we confront any fear of success there is a price to pay, whether it’s just the energy cost of the shaking knees and the sweaty palms. It takes it out of us, so, just as with fitness, we don’t suddenly, overnight go from the Before to the After picture, it takes work, and one step at a time. We are going as fast as we can.

So, while we need to use everything around us to move forward, inspiration from others, sometimes even the lows of escaping a certain uncomfortable situation, we also need to have patience and compassion with ourselves. We are always hiding like a leopard, and we will always pounce at the perfect moment.

Hide Like A Leopard

And of course there is another meaning to this phrase - that beautiful skin coveted by so many, especially poachers. I do not want to spread fear, just wisdom, but as I’ve learned from travelling, despite loving the world and wanting to serve the world, I don’t walk around with my purse or my rucksack wide open, and so we also need to honour our gifts, and treat ourselves and what we have to offer with respect. (And respect those who don’t want to be taught by us - or see our beautiful hide!)

Some people will always try to take advantage, and so, perhaps one of the reasons we hide, I hide, they hide, is to allow enough personal growth so that when we do come out into the open and say, sell a product or a service, that we do so with respect and honour on both sides - after all, every interaction we have with another is a sacred thing and it is important that our exchange of money or energy honours both sides.

We do not serve people fully when we allow them to take advantage of us.

Zumba News

I did a whole class on my dodgy ankle! And in a few minutes I’m going to do another one!

This time I’m doing the ZIN (Zumba Instructor) DVDs, so I get the world’s top instructors (and I don’t feel bad about adapting the moves if my ankle gets tired!)

I am determined now to rehab my ankle, my back and get back to being 100% fit again. I know that Zumba has a lot of sides to it, but at this point I’d also remind even the founders, that it is Zumba FITNESS, which means it’s not about sculpting a perfect body or even losing weight, it is about helping you (and me) to get fit for whatever challenges we are facing or want to take on - whether that is climbing a mountain (my original goal when I started Zumba in 2010) or just being able to sit in a chair without my back hurting.

Publishing News

I hope one of my clients won’t mind me mentioning a really sweet email she sent me saying that she realised she could actually author a book - of course she could! A lot of the work that I do is getting things into a recognisable book format, and offering advice, but most people already have their book sitting on their computer, it’s really a question of editing, filling in a few gaps and asking a few more questions that they forgot to answer because it all seemed so obvious to them - just a little bit of reflection and perspective.

And a second Hooray this week for my wonderful client AM Hellberg Moberg aka Anna Maria Espsäter, who is now an Amazon Best Seller!

Although Boldly Into Darkness Go is really very sweet and not that racy (IMHO) it has still ranked as no. 75 on the Erotic Bisexual Fiction chart!

Follow her on Amazon or find her on Instagram... and, of course, please find, read and review her books online!

And I also have a new Best Seller! In the German charts!

This week my new book Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, The Cameron Highlands, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Tanjung Jara and Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo)

just missed out on the Australian Best Seller Chart, but hit the charts in Germany.

25th July 2019

German Kindle

#90 in Selbsthilfe zu Motivation (englischsprachig) (Self Help and Motivation, English Speaking)

#36 in Reiselektüre zu Südost-Asien (Travel to South East Asia)

#11 in Reiselektüre zu Südost-Asien (englischsprachig) (Travel to South East Asia, English Speaking)

I guess I really can call myself an international best selling author now?

Unfortunately I never made it to the Dispace launch party in Moorgate yesterday as the trains “melted”, but I will be doing a talk at Rume2 in Chichester Wednesday 14th August 1-2pm on “The Power of Self-Publishing”. Contact the Rume2 co-working space to book your free ticket.

Lots of love, Pearl x

Pearl Howie is the writer of “free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday”, now available as a photographic paperback and eBook, a text only book and as an audiobook. The 8 other titles in this series, are already available as paperbacks and eBooks and are coming soon as audiobooks (Japan and the first part of Camino are now available).

https://www.amazon.com/Pearl-Howie/e/B007HJFBH4

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