Step up…

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  “… step up, think bigger, be bolder, eliminate fear and competition, and attract money and opportunities.“ Ali Brown

I was talking to someone about my life and how things were falling down around me.  I mean it. Lost my job. Have health issues. There is this leak in my living room window. My favorite large bookcase broke, a shelf snapped. Now it leans dangerously against my desk supported on the other side by three file cabinets. Renovations were done in apartment upstairs and that unleashed vermin like a plague of locusts into my apartment.

She couldn’t help but laugh. It sounded like a cartoon to her. I had to agree the state of things have become absurd. As I sit at my desk each day it feels like I am in the midst of the perfect storm. Except I am the calm center of the storm. Occasionally something comes out of squall and cackles at me and I just swat it back.

There are things I am concerned about but if I were in a state of panic I could not handle problems effectively.  Ali Brown is known as the Ezine Queen building her empire on teaching people how to effectively build a business through a well crafted ezine newsletter.  She has certainly taken that piece and crafted an incredible empire for herself.  Reading her last newsletter I was struck by  how she was able to shift her mindset to reach way beyond her comfort zone.

I pulled out the statement above and have posted it over my computer. If you are crafting a business, creating art, writing your first novel it helps to be reminded of those who have gone before and succeeded.

A year from now I do think I will look back at this time as the moment I took my big steps. Where do you want to be a year from now?

When the going gets tough, the tough get writing

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If your bank account is anything like mine you may find yourself making different choices about your leisure activity. The two things I like to do when stressed:

Buy and Eat. Buy to eat. Eat and then buy.  Eating is my favorite. Shopping is not a pastime for me. However, when I am stressed I start hankering for product, “Ohhh, look at the bright, shining things”. The shelves are stacked with sirens calling me to them and what to them all home.

The current limits in my bank account and the sedentary new lifestyle I have achieved prevent me from answering the call to buy and eat. The question then becomes how do I respond to the urges?

Write, write, write… is my answer. What can you write?

  1. Write down goals
  2. Begin your novel, short story,big book of ideas, poetry collection
  3. Write articles and submit them all over the place
  4. Begin a blog and discuss the news of the day
  5. Start a journal and write about private demons that torment you
  6. Write an ebook
  7. Sales copy for a client
  8. Write an ad to get a client who needs sales copy
  9. Write long letters to friends in faraway places
  10. Write on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter
  11. Create elaborate to-do lists that will take you ten years to complete
  12. Write a book for kids
  13. Create a website about writing and invite your friends

The list is endless. You could spend your days  writing a list about what you could write about.

When the going gets tough… heck you’re tough, start writing.