Please lend me your strength!

Actually, I have been hesitating for a long time.
Whether or not to apply for this contest, which has a deadline at the end of this month...

→Kizuna Publishing Contest 2025

I had a seminar coming up on the 24th, and although I had a vague concept in my head, I hadn't prepared anything at all until the seminar was over.

However, on Monday the 27th, when the week began.
When I opened Facebook for the first time in a while, I saw a post from my mentor, Hiroomi Sueyoshi, who published "The Courage to Express" with Kizuna Publishing.He also shared it on note later.

When I read the message filled with so much love and encouragement from Mr. Sueyoshi, I couldn't stop the tears from overflowing, even though I was out.

"I'm scared. I'm incredibly scared. I'm scared, but I want to take on the challenge."

That was the moment I truly caught the voice of my own heart.

At that moment, I declared to Mr. Sueyoshi, "I will apply!" and went home to start working on the proposal immediately.

The application guidelines stated that because it is Kizuna Publishing,

it said.

"Human connections" is my life theme itself.

This project was made for me!!!

I motivated myself and made up my mind.

I don't want to publish a book for money, nor do I want to be called an amazing person.

It is because I want to put my energy of love into words and deliver it to future readers who are further away and more widespread.

It is because by sharing my life experiences, I want more and more people to be loved by others and money, and to become wealthy and happy.
By publishing a book, I want to make not only my family, friends, and colleagues who always support me, and future readers happy and wealthy, but also the publishers who create the "books" I love, the printers who print the books, the bookstores and bookshops across the country that stock the books... the list goes on and on, but I want to make the many people involved happier and wealthier than ever before.

It is because I want to share the vision of a "world where love circulates" with many people, join hands, and realize such a world together with everyone.

Through this book, I am creating the proposal with all my heart, while imagining a future where all of you who always support me are filled with even more love and abundance.

And this publishing contest will, believe it or not, begin with online voting by general readers.

It really is a contest where you can make publishing a reality through the power of "bonds" (kizuna).

It seems that online voting will begin at the start of February.
It looks like you can cast one vote per day for multiple entries,so I would be very happy if you could support me once voting begins!

I also want to write in the book I am planning about the encounters I have had here on note, which changed my life, and the warm bonds I have formed with friends from the Magic School membership that I run.

Although I haven't finished the application yet, with the help of my mentor, Mr. Sueyoshi, it is almost complete!

I will proceed with excitement until the very end, imagining a future where everyone who interacts with me is smiling happily because this project has taken the form of a book.

I would be so happy if you could send your love and support to Maico!
I would also appreciate messages of support in the comments.

I have written this as brightly and positively as possible, but in truth, my fingertips are trembling and I am almost crying as I write this.

For someone like me who is terrible at relying on others, asking for favors, or depending on people, this is a huge, huge challenge.

Once February arrives, I might ask for your support almost every day during the approximately two-week voting period.
The courage to be disliked, the courage to fail, the courage to expose my embarrassment...
It requires a lot of courage and determination.

Even so, I will take on this challenge.
Because by continuing to challenge myself, I might be able to encourage someone else's courage and determination.

Please let me announce it again once the entry is complete and voting begins.

Thank you for reading this far.
May you have a happy day today as well.

Maico