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Book Title: Building A Dream: The Joyous, Twisty Journey to Breaking Ground on a Beach House. Inspirational self help memoir.

About My Journey

Headshot of Anita Wasko. Author of Book Title: Building A Dream: The Joyous, Twisty Journey to Breaking Ground on a Beach House. Self help memoir on retirement and dream fulfillment full of life lessons.

As a little girl, I imagined writing a book.

Twenty years after college, I was the head of motor vehicles in Pennsylvania, with hundreds of employees serving millions of customers.

In a great career, being of service, my book stayed behind in childhood.

Until one day, I put pen to paper. Then, word by word, the story I wanted to share with you unfolded.

Soon ready to retire, my husband and I longed to break ground on a house in a beach community in Florida. These two lifestyle changes became my new journey.

But fears threatened to overtake my venture into the unknown—whether it was a retirement or a move didn't matter.

My story intends to bring awareness and insight into your journey, even if fears threaten to take you off your path.

I can't wait to share this journey with you!


Welcome To My Joyous, Twisty Journey!

“This entire journey of transition has taken me into the unknown. What I didn't fully understand was the promise "I don't know" makes to me; a promise that if I trust to move forward into the unknown…I open space for all future possibilities to become known. I open space for something better than perhaps even I could have mustered.”

“My agenda was tested, instead, by the natural messiness of life. I was reminded that the universe decides the order and I decide how to play in its sandbox.”

Anita Wasko author of Book Title: Building A Dream: The Joyous, Twisty Journey to Breaking Ground on a Beach House book lifestyle buy on amazon. Non fiction author, inspirational book, memoir,  Flagler Beach, Mexican american female author

The Joyous, Twisty Journey Blog

What is a joyous, twisty journey?

I am a rose-colored glasses, glass-half-full kind of person. And that is joyous. But, even I see the cloud in the silver lining. And for me, that's the twisty part.

It's the twisty part where life says, "How are you going to handle this?"

Building A Dream tells our story of breaking ground on a beach house, with all its twists and turns. But the journey goes on from there. In my blog, I will share more insights and happenings, the silver linings, and the twists.

I call our journey (yours and mine) joyous when we fulfill our calling. So, as I wrote the book, I called out the ups and downs. But I have decided to go from "down" to "twisty." That sounds a lot more fun to me.

And, let's face it, when a twisty challenge hits us, I want to remember to go up and not down. Going up in our thoughts gets us to better solutions faster (and I am all up for that).

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