Want to Write and Cannot Get Started? (And other areas.)

What? I want to write, have healthy motivational factors, have a lot to say, love to create w/ words, paint, music, love to be creative in business and/or work, at home. I love to problem solve in many forms. I just seem to live in a mode of "one day I'll get to it." Life is flying by and have not done anything to have left behind my legacy.

Hard news; One has to make the time to do it. Take the time from your schedule however busy and plan writing sessions. Two/three hours a few times a week? Five/six days a week around two hrs.? Just for today carve out in a twenty-four hour envelope take the time it takes to write a thousand words, say or three to five pages. To make time, take it. What is low priority that can be eliminated or put aside for now? Television watching-gone for good? Living your own life instead of watching someone else's life "acted" out? Yes.

Consistency is a good trait, not talking about what I call "beige mode." That is neutral w/ no vibrant color of life in description, images. Consistency helps give the market what they want a little more when you get to the business side of the coin. It is not selling out. It is getting your work "out there" to the audience, hopefully generating, producing a gift in whatever medium, genre for society to be at least just a little bit making the world whatever size of your niche just a little better off. You can do it.

How? Trying to give yourself acknowedging your work/efforts so far. Assign yourself homework to achieve your goals. Find a mentor or at least a supportive person or group. Read your genre. Read how-to books. Remember the early, mid-nineties? Self-help went off the charts, bibliotherapy got a new reputation. Artists Way? Goal setting books? Course in Miracles at the bookstore at lunch break? Find what works for you. This is an opportunity to be assertive and in control of your life better. Creativity is thinking for yourself. It bleeds into other parts of your life. It is one of the best brain exercises basically. And paper/pen is inexpensive. So is relatively the computer/word processor over time working for you. A four hundred dollar computer "unit" w/ a word processor in a year costs about a dollar a day. Two years/fifty cents a day. ... .

People will see a difference in you. Self-confidence, self-esteem, happiness becomes a choice from the dark abyss, happiness is yours again. Just got to put the time in. Do the footwork. Get the writer's box out. Toss in ideas on index cards, writing ideas on backs of envelopes, restauran/cafe napkins. Your thoughts are worth saving. Bring out the critic after a couple of months of steady writing. Toss the wet blankets off the problem at hand. Treat yourself well. Acknowledge your time on earth by leaving behind some of your best thoughts. You have them. Do something with them now! Give yourself time. And the skills one gains from writng one manuscript/book work w/ more manuscripts/books w/ you name on them. Remember increase the quality of your life, increase the quality of your work. Now go to it! (Need help? Contact me on the ... contact page, if you need some mentoring.)