Over the next few months, as I begin to write my book with you all, I hope to completely obliterate all these distractions from your thinking...
distractions like:
I don't know what to write
I don't have anything good to say
I don't have time to write
writing is about my emotions
writing requires discipline
I don't know how to get past the first page (as if there is a rule saying you must start on page 1)
and... lots of other distractions and myths.
Our stories are the scratches and stains of our lives. They are evident everywhere...
in the clothes we wear, the stuff we carry...
our thoughts, ideas, actions and sooooo much more.
What we write is a distillation of those stories into a single confined space called a book.
We write to remember because the choice to not write is the automatic/default choice to forget.
The seemingly insignificant things we write and remember today will become
The inspiration and "secret bank account" (says Emerson) of our future...
Answers to questions not yet asked.
When you write, you are cultivating an ongoing relationship with yourself that has more benefits than could possibly be predicted.
The first reason we MUST write is:
TO GET WHAT WE WANT.
Here's why...
In a nutshell, writing makes us exact and we will never get what we want unless we know exactly what it is.
An idea is not enough. Unless it is exact you may miss it. An idea also needs to be brought into the real world so you can have it in the real world. The first step to doing that is to write it down in all exactitude. Because knowing EXACTLY what you want is the first step to getting it.
But not only that, if we do not write it down we may just forget it.
And even more than any of these 2 things, to get what we want, we need to have an ongoing relationship with it.
And that is exactly what writing does... it cultivates and maintains the relationship we have with ourselves and what we want. If we do not maintain that relationship we will loose it.
Go ahead... write down something you want... color, size, sense, smell, how it will feel to have it... write it all down. Then write it down again tomorrow and... the next day and...
That is what I mean by exact and that is how we begin to cultivate a relationship with not only what we want but with ourselves.
If you do or have done this, let me know how it goes or how it went. eMail me HERE and tell me.
Being exact is not as easy as one might think. But it is the first step to getting exactly what you want.
distractions like:
I don't know what to write
I don't have anything good to say
I don't have time to write
writing is about my emotions
writing requires discipline
I don't know how to get past the first page (as if there is a rule saying you must start on page 1)
and... lots of other distractions and myths.
Our stories are the scratches and stains of our lives. They are evident everywhere...
in the clothes we wear, the stuff we carry...
our thoughts, ideas, actions and sooooo much more.
What we write is a distillation of those stories into a single confined space called a book.
We write to remember because the choice to not write is the automatic/default choice to forget.
The seemingly insignificant things we write and remember today will become
The inspiration and "secret bank account" (says Emerson) of our future...
Answers to questions not yet asked.
When you write, you are cultivating an ongoing relationship with yourself that has more benefits than could possibly be predicted.
The first reason we MUST write is:
TO GET WHAT WE WANT.
Here's why...
In a nutshell, writing makes us exact and we will never get what we want unless we know exactly what it is.
An idea is not enough. Unless it is exact you may miss it. An idea also needs to be brought into the real world so you can have it in the real world. The first step to doing that is to write it down in all exactitude. Because knowing EXACTLY what you want is the first step to getting it.
But not only that, if we do not write it down we may just forget it.
And even more than any of these 2 things, to get what we want, we need to have an ongoing relationship with it.
And that is exactly what writing does... it cultivates and maintains the relationship we have with ourselves and what we want. If we do not maintain that relationship we will loose it.
Go ahead... write down something you want... color, size, sense, smell, how it will feel to have it... write it all down. Then write it down again tomorrow and... the next day and...
That is what I mean by exact and that is how we begin to cultivate a relationship with not only what we want but with ourselves.
If you do or have done this, let me know how it goes or how it went. eMail me HERE and tell me.
Being exact is not as easy as one might think. But it is the first step to getting exactly what you want.
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