My Book Has a Name: Where Your Eyes Go

There’s a lesson every new skier learns on the first day: don’t stare at the tree you’re trying to avoid. Look at the open path. Your body follows your eyes.

Horseback riders learn it too. So do new drivers. And somewhere along the way, I realized it’s one of the truest things I know about life.

Which is why I’m so excited to finally share this with you. My book has a name.

Where Your Eyes Go

How to Build a Life You Love From Whatever You’ve Been Dealt

Why this title

I started writing this book back in 2017. For years, it was simply “my book.” Choosing its name this week felt like watching it take its first real breath.

The title comes from Chapter 4, where nine-year-old me discovered something I’ve leaned on ever since. I couldn’t control much of what was happening around me, but I could choose where to keep my eyes. And where attention goes, energy flows.

I also wanted the title to be about you, not me. Yes, the book is full of my stories. But every chapter ends by turning back to you, because the real goal is for you to finish it feeling like the hero of your own story. The subtitle is a promise: whatever hand you’ve been dealt, it can be your starting point.

What else I worked on this week

I pulled out my old yearbooks to double-check my timeline. Flipping through those pages (the hairstyles! the notes scribbled in the back, haha) helped me pin down exactly which grade I was in during some of the biggest moments in the book. These stories are true, and getting the details right matters to me.

I also kept writing my way into my high school years. That part of the book holds a choice I made at seventeen that changed the course of everything that followed. I can’t wait to share more when the time is right.

A question for you

Where are your eyes right now? On the tree you’re afraid of hitting, or on the open path you want to take?

I’d love to hear your answer in the comments. And if you’d like to follow along until this book is in your hands, subscribe so you never miss an update.

Aubrey