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Monday Motivation - A Crippling Belief How Writers Write by HappyWriter
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Welcome to Monday Motivation - A Crippling Belief
If you've been listening to this podcast, you'll know I place tremendous value on intentionally building your beliefs because beliefs are the driver of feelings, and how we feel dictates how we act. So the chain goes beliefs drive feelings, feelings drive actions. That insight alone has radically changed my life. I never ever try to change one of my actions, because when you only focus on changing an action it is sure to fail. To change your life, you have to change your beliefs.
Okay, so this episode goes out to the people who are always cutting themselves down for not being published, not being further in their writing practice, not having the awards, word count, or general praise of whoever else they compare themselves to. I have no doubt that there are people out there who are squirming a bit.
This feeling is not just a feeling. It is the expression of a belief. The belief is that you as a writer should be somewhere other than exactly where you are. I call this an other-than-here belief. You believe that you should have been born into a more literary family, you should have gotten a better writing education, tried harder, started earlier, published that book, not published the book. You get the idea.
At its core, this belief rests on the ultra-belief that you aren't enough. It is a belief of lack and incompetence.
And it is completely untrue.
You are exactly where you are supposed to be. If you weren't supposed to be here, you wouldn't be here. But, like really simply, where you are at is where you are at. There is a true power in just looking plainly at your writing practice and not distorting the view with dissatisfaction. This is ESPECIALLY true if you want to change your life. Don't let the pressure out. Just look at yourself.
But, be careful not to look at yourself and beat yourself up, because you are literally just repeating the same practice. You are saying, "Dang, Brian, you are such a bad writer because look at all these people who are waaaaaaay further in their writing game!"
Instead, break up the observation of this belief into two buckets.
The things you want to improve, andA deep, genuine gratitude of all of the wonderful things in your writing life. Make lists of all of the things you do so amazingly great. It can be making characters or dialogue or story ideas or maybe even hope. Focus on your good. Always, always, always focus on your good.Take just a few minutes a day to fill your life with gratitude and you'll find that soon you won't yearn to be somewhere else because you will be grateful for exactly where you are.
Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you have a wonderful week of writing.
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Welcome to Monday Motivation - A Crippling Belief
If you've been listening to this podcast, you'll know I place tremendous value on intentionally building your beliefs because beliefs are the driver of feelings, and how we feel dictates how we act. So the chain goes beliefs drive feelings, feelings drive actions. That insight alone has radically changed my life. I never ever try to change one of my actions, because when you only focus on changing an action it is sure to fail. To change your life, you have to change your beliefs.
Okay, so this episode goes out to the people who are always cutting themselves down for not being published, not being further in their writing practice, not having the awards, word count, or general praise of whoever else they compare themselves to. I have no doubt that there are people out there who are squirming a bit.
This feeling is not just a feeling. It is the expression of a belief. The belief is that you as a writer should be somewhere other than exactly where you are. I call this an other-than-here belief. You believe that you should have been born into a more literary family, you should have gotten a better writing education, tried harder, started earlier, published that book, not published the book. You get the idea.
At its core, this belief rests on the ultra-belief that you aren't enough. It is a belief of lack and incompetence.
And it is completely untrue.
You are exactly where you are supposed to be. If you weren't supposed to be here, you wouldn't be here. But, like really simply, where you are at is where you are at. There is a true power in just looking plainly at your writing practice and not distorting the view with dissatisfaction. This is ESPECIALLY true if you want to change your life. Don't let the pressure out. Just look at yourself.
But, be careful not to look at yourself and beat yourself up, because you are literally just repeating the same practice. You are saying, "Dang, Brian, you are such a bad writer because look at all these people who are waaaaaaay further in their writing game!"
Instead, break up the observation of this belief into two buckets.
The things you want to improve, andA deep, genuine gratitude of all of the wonderful things in your writing life. Make lists of all of the things you do so amazingly great. It can be making characters or dialogue or story ideas or maybe even hope. Focus on your good. Always, always, always focus on your good.Take just a few minutes a day to fill your life with gratitude and you'll find that soon you won't yearn to be somewhere else because you will be grateful for exactly where you are.
Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you have a wonderful week of writing.
Support the show
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