Tim Birchard
Just write. Do not worry about ideas of 'success'... or of being 'good enough'. Start writing something. Anything at all. Something you're passionate about. Let it come from your heart. Play to your strengths. Write what you know about. What you care about.
The ideas of success and failure... they're all simply ideas. They can influence emotional states... making you feel happy, sad, angry, or scared... but at the end of the day, they're simply thoughts.
Write every day. Write when you feel like it. Write when you do not feel like it. Write when you feel unstoppable. And write when you feel don't.
Make lots and lots of mistakes. Set a goal for a certain amount of pages written, and expect to make lots of mistakes. Let yourself realize and understand that making mistakes is PART of the process, not separate from it. Make mistakes your friend. The more mistakes you're willing to make, the more you will write... the deeper you can dig... the better your chances of learning something about yourself and others.
Let yourself be vulnerable. Let your brokenness shine through. Let yourself be seen for the human being that you are. Let your humanity be revealed.
Write as though you are the King or Queen of the world and you have everything going for you. Write as if you are upon death's threshold and only have a minute left to live. Be the most selfish person in the world and write for yourself. Be the most generous person in the world and share your gold with the world... give it away freely through the words on the page.
Just write. Start writing today. And give what you have to give today. When you've got tons to give, offer it up. And when you barely have anything at all left to give, offer that up, as well. Leave it all on the battlefield of the empty page. If you're not bleeding (metaphorically speaking), cursing, spitting, howling at the moon and questioning your own sanity, then you're not digging deeply enough.
And when tomorrow comes, do it all over again.
Most importantly, when it is finished, offer your writing to the world. Step away from it, release it, surrender it and know that you have written. For better or worse, whether anyone considers it a 'success' or not, know that you have succeeded in writing. You will find mistakes. Live with them. It will be imperfect. Embrace it. Your writing will be flawed to perfection, just like you.
Surrender your need to be seen as perfect. It's the ego's way of keeping you from doing anything at all of value in this world.
Just write.
The ideas of success and failure... they're all simply ideas. They can influence emotional states... making you feel happy, sad, angry, or scared... but at the end of the day, they're simply thoughts.
Write every day. Write when you feel like it. Write when you do not feel like it. Write when you feel unstoppable. And write when you feel don't.
Make lots and lots of mistakes. Set a goal for a certain amount of pages written, and expect to make lots of mistakes. Let yourself realize and understand that making mistakes is PART of the process, not separate from it. Make mistakes your friend. The more mistakes you're willing to make, the more you will write... the deeper you can dig... the better your chances of learning something about yourself and others.
Let yourself be vulnerable. Let your brokenness shine through. Let yourself be seen for the human being that you are. Let your humanity be revealed.
Write as though you are the King or Queen of the world and you have everything going for you. Write as if you are upon death's threshold and only have a minute left to live. Be the most selfish person in the world and write for yourself. Be the most generous person in the world and share your gold with the world... give it away freely through the words on the page.
Just write. Start writing today. And give what you have to give today. When you've got tons to give, offer it up. And when you barely have anything at all left to give, offer that up, as well. Leave it all on the battlefield of the empty page. If you're not bleeding (metaphorically speaking), cursing, spitting, howling at the moon and questioning your own sanity, then you're not digging deeply enough.
And when tomorrow comes, do it all over again.
Most importantly, when it is finished, offer your writing to the world. Step away from it, release it, surrender it and know that you have written. For better or worse, whether anyone considers it a 'success' or not, know that you have succeeded in writing. You will find mistakes. Live with them. It will be imperfect. Embrace it. Your writing will be flawed to perfection, just like you.
Surrender your need to be seen as perfect. It's the ego's way of keeping you from doing anything at all of value in this world.
Just write.
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