Let yourself be a beginner

Everything you’ve learned how to do once took great effort and lots of failure. From walking to learning how to ride a bike, navigating the internet to the skills you use on the job, you didn’t spring from the womb excellent at everything you’ve ever...

Changing your habits is a fool’s game

Trying to change your habits means you’re looking at yourself as not enough in some way. It means you strive to be something you’re not. That you’re lacking a quality or identity you desire to have or embody. Coming from that energy—no matter which...

Reframing my subconscious writing beliefs

It’s only now that I know what my subconscious thinks writing has to do for me, that I can clear away the lies. To try this for yourself: Step 1: Write down everything you believe about writing—good, bad, ugly. What comes up when you think about sitting down at...

What I thought writing had to do for me

Make me money/famousHelp me be remembered long after I’m dead and goneGive my life meaningMake me worthy of love (because I’ll have accomplished something other people will pay attention to)Make me enough, help me feel valuable/successfulHelp my family...