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The Secret to My (yet-to-be-completely-achieved) Success 

7/31/2016

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by Christine Pinto
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Ever feel your focus blur, support for your writing life wane, and belief in what you’re doing dissipate? Argh! What to do?

Here’s what I do to get my focus back and reenergize support from the only reliably constant, unbiased, fully supportive source I’ll ever have all the time … me.

I take a break to write down:

--Why, specifically, I write what I write.

--My biography, a short one and the longer one that will introduce my biography when I’m hugely famous, or serve as the outline to my autobiography, even if I never decide to write it.

--Glowing reviews of my (yet to be finished) very, very successful books.

--An introduction to myself as the keynote speaker of an important conference.

--My acceptance speech for those awards I’m going to win.

--The “Secret of My Success Speech” I’ll give someday.This is not idle chatter or boasting. It clarifies what I believe, puts positive messages out in the world to work on my behalf, and helps me practice saying good things about myself from a position of strength, the position of having achieved it all already. And it makes visible support from the best advocate I’ll ever have – me.
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Think of it as a deposit in the bank. Happy Writing!
 
A novelist and writing coach for children, Christine Pinto is currently serving as the treasurer of EPIC Group Writers.

2 Comments
Kim V. link
8/8/2016 10:42:27 am

Such great advice, Christine! I love the idea of putting all those positive thoughts into writing. It will be really fun to go back and read them all. :)

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Adrienne Fermoyle
8/9/2016 05:51:17 am

Wow, Christine...these are great suggestions! If we cannot champion and support ourselves how can we expect others to be able to do so.

Thanks for sharing these with us!

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