Belief reaches beyond space and time.
Belief is:
knowing without evidence
feeling without proof
healing without hesitation
deciding without doubt
reacting without reservation
with no track record
no promise of success
And no guarantees
Belief carries you through rejection into resilience so you can reap the rewards of a thriving writing career.
Before you can expect someone else to believe in you, your work, and your abilities, you must believe the work that lies within you pressing to emerge, is urgent and valuable.
3 Ways To Strengthen Belief In Yourself and Your Writing:
1. Start something new each week - Keep your mind fresh and alert by beginning a new writing idea, blog post article, or poem each week. Check out a new book, blog, or on location networking meeting. Try a new recipe, start a painting or find a different place to take photos. Your imagination is fueled by ideas and it's a contagious process; one idea produces another and another and inspiration can come from anywhere. So the more novel experiences you position yourself in front of, the more you'll have to write about and your belief will strengthen with each completed piece.
2. Does what you're writing interest you? If you focus your fiction and non-fiction on subjects that you most enjoy you're likely to stick with it to the end. The more absorbed you are in your work the more momentum you'll develop. In today's online, content-centered climate you can write and publish an article, blog, or book on any topic, talent, or task and there will probably be an audience that finds your words relevant and relatable. Choose what excites you and all the finished projects will make your belief level soar.
3. Take 20 to 30 minutes daily to lie still and close your eyes - You can either decide ahead of time what you want your mind to focus on or, you can just let your brain drift, doze, and your eyes rest. I always develop worthwhile ideas for projects I'm working on, answers to questions, and solutions to challenges. If you're trying to work out a plotting problem, a character conflict, decide on a title, the theme of your next blog post, or brainstorm over any other creative project, there's a lot of power in sleeping or resting on it.
Believing must be a genuine emotion. You cannot fake it. Your subconscious mind is too smart to be tricked. You can be your own worst enemy or your own worthy endorser. Believing is the power supply that makes things happen. But you have to charge the battery of your belief level to keep it running strong. Find ways to stimulate your thinking and stay focused. Accelerate your efforts with action. Believe in yourself and your work. And you will be unstoppable!
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