Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Do you struggle to find the time to write? Here’s how to establish a writing routine that will work no matter how little time you have. I’m doing it again. For the second week in a row I’m writing a serious, content-filled post about writing — right when your […]
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes I know it might seem unreasonable that you should be spending less time writing (particularly if you’re a procrastinator) but read on to learn why I offer this counterintuitive advice… I meet with clients every week who confess they don’t spend nearly enough time writing. They’re usually embarrassed and ashamed
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes Do you regularly “run out” of time? Psychologist Gay Hendricks has some intriguing ideas that can help writers find more time to write. How do you visualize time? Perhaps you see it as a bucket full of water, being drained? Or maybe you imagine it as a heat map
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes Do you ever give yourself treats for writing? You should. Take five minutes right now and develop a reward strategy you can employ to bolster your spirits… As any six-year-old will tell you, Halloween is not just a holiday for ghosts and goblins. It celebrates the inner candy monster
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Establishing the writing habit will pay you big dividends into the future. It doesn’t matter how many words you produce each day. What matters is that you DO it…. When you read the subject line to this post perhaps, you thought, “Nah, it’s summer. I’m taking some time to
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Do you know how to boost your productivity? It starts with making a list… I started writing lists when I was 10 years old. I recall sitting at the whitewashed student desk in the corner of my childhood bedroom and itemizing all the tasks I wanted to accomplish that
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Time is the most valuable commodity we all have. But let me ask you if you’re regularly wasting your writing time…. If Superman, or the tooth fairy or Dumbledore offered you either $1,500 or a thousand minutes of your life back, which would you choose? In our cash-obsessed society,
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes How often do you write? If you’re not a professional your writing habits may be weak and flabby. Here’s why you should write every day… Here are three things you almost certainly do every day: Sleep Eat food Drink water And here are three you likely do (or are nagged
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes Do you want to learn how to develop the writing habit? It’s not as hard as you might have feared… The hardest part about writing is not the work of stringing a sentence together – it’s the commitment it requires, day after relentless day. If you want to build
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you struggle with writer’s guilt? Don’t let it talk you out of writing. Use these ways to outwit it… I was not born a guilty person. I had impatience. Perfectionism. Even a titch of arrogance. But, somehow guilt always slid off of me like eggs out of a Teflon plan. I
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