Love is Truth and Compassion
Robert Wright: “A thought experiment: Suppose you are a parent and you (a) watch someone else’s toddler misbehave and then (b) watch your own…
Robert Wright: “A thought experiment: Suppose you are a parent and you (a) watch someone else’s toddler misbehave and then (b) watch your own…
I cringe when I hear someone say “writing is hard” because it’s not once you overcome your perfectionism, which in turn is caused by fear (terror, actually) and scarcity.
In a big rush this morning due to heavy teaching load, but had to post about this. Like most blogsters, I regularly check my stats to see how much traffic…
Most people think of procrastination as a simple bad habit, but it’s often much more than that: it’s a strategy we employ when we’re…
The goal of time management and productivity work is not to move from being “deprived” to “semi-deprived” of time, but to create lavish amounts of time for your priorities.
Prolific writers resource themselves abundantly. They invest in themselves and their writing. They work on great-functioning equipment, and in the best environment they can. This not only directly aids their productivity but sends an important message to themselves and others that their writing is important. Underproductive ones, in contrast, are likely to be found working on crappy equipment in dank basements with the mold and spiders and last season’s wardrobe.
Everyone encounters obstacles to production. A’s surmount them with a minimum of effort and delay; B’s organize their life and work so that the obstacle doesn’t happen or isn’t perceived as such; C’s get derailed. Hillary Rettig’s book The Seven Secrets of the Prolific tells you how to evolve from a C to A to B.
The Seven Secrets of the Prolific are the key behaviors separating productive/prolific people from those who are underproductive: each addresses a major category of disempowering constraint.
The idea that grandiosity fuels perfectionism always shocks perfectionists, who think their problem is low self-esteem. But it’s grandiosity that causes the shame and low-self esteem by constantly setting goals and conditions the writer can’t possibly live up to.