Start Procrastinating!
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” ~Napoleon Hill~ You read it right. I said, “Start” procrastinating. Why? Because I’ve noticed that some of my most productive friends and colleagues are true procrastinators. They fall into a type of procrastinators that I call “The Do-ers”. They simply Do what has to be done. Sometimes this comes with a cost. Basically they put off things that don’t serve their purpose, in order to be completely uninterrupted dong one thing at a time. They...
Read MoreThe Horror. The Blank Page.
The blank page. Empty, oddly silent. It is both a terrifying place, yet a place of possibility. Depending on what you’re writing, the blank page can be fun or a total freak out. It is especially hard when you are writing a memoir or writing stories that are personal. The closer you get to the private moments the more you might fear what people think, but it’s in the private moments that you tap into a universal place for all of us to relate to. Your job as a writer is to let it all out. Your stories might seem frivolous or mundane to you, but everyone...
Read MoreWalking Off A Cliff: Writer’s Block
“It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do — you can either type, or kill yourself.” ~ Anne Lamotte ~ The truth is that most writers don’t like to write. Here is what they like: to have already written. Writers block sucks, but is there really such a thing? Seth Godin writes about “talkers block”: “No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is...
Read MoreGive Up Trying To Fit In.
If you haven’t noticed yet, there is only one you. As much as you’d like to think that you’re just like everyone else, you’re not. The hard part is staying you. What I mean is people will try to talk you out of being you. Most people want you to be “normal” or to “fit in”, but that just means giving up your personal freedom and conforming or becoming invisible. Seth Godin, bestselling author and world-class marketing expert says,”Fitting in is a short term strategy. Standing out pays off in the long run.” Give up trying to fit in. This is...
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