Think about your very best writing sessions. Weren’t they filled with passion and purpose? Didn’t the words flow effortlessly from your mind to the page?
Asking for what we want is hard enough but being prepared to get what we want can be even harder.
It requires we do the internal work of becoming the person for whom what we want is normal, natural and expected.
I start each day writing out a gratitude list. It only takes about 5 minutes, but it starts my day off in the right mental attitude.
Fear is often at the root of our refusal to sit down and write every day – because if we actually complete this first draft, we’ll one step closer to the most terrifying thing of all – putting ourselves out into the world.
We all know what to do to sell our books.
We just don’t want to do it because it means stepping out of our comfort zone.
Dreams are beautiful things. But a dream alone is useless without a plan for turning that dream into our reality.
That’s where the deadline comes in.
The hardest part of writing a book is to sit down and etch your book’s core idea onto the page in front of you.
Florence Nightingale was in the business of saving lives. Florence Nightingale was in the business of saving lives. Like all great visionaries, she wasn’t very tender with the feelings of others. She didn’t have time for that.
It’s our duty to share our experience, strength and hope with others going through a similar situation so we can help them through it.
The simple truth is we have exactly the amount of power we believe we have. If we believe we don’t have any power then, guess what? We don’t have any power.