Impatience Is The Enemy of Success, Or Writing Well Often Takes Time

I am reminded today that my projects and those of my clients have to unfold of their own accord. Like most creative people, usually I am ready to move forward like lightning with a thousand different ideas. But then I slow down or run into obstacles. Once products begin to take form I am involved and engaged (to greater or lesser extent) with other professionals who have their own busy schedules and time frames, and creative processes that shouldn't necessarily be rushed. I have to respect them by stepping back and trusting their integrity. Plus, I can get distracted, or I discover more details to handle, and then I succumb to my own creative misdemeanors and sabotages.

What happens when I relax and stop trying to mainpulate the outcome? It eases.

Of course, I'm not talking about letting go and drifting into unconcsiousness or taking nap after nap on the couch--that's no way to succeed in life. Also: Boring!

However, I want you to understand that you can definitely be so eager to move forward that your standards are lowered too far. And that won't serve your best interests in the long-term. Keep an eye on quality. Allow your subconscious to have a chance to operate on your behalf by factoring in time spent away from your project. Then you can come back and review it with fresh eyes. Also, get the support of objective observers. You may not be your own best salesperson. Those supporters are golden. They deserve flowers and praises yodelled from high mountaintops.

All the while your project is "cooking" test and taste it and don't be afraid to make improvements. One day you'll know it is ready. Confirmation will arrive. Then move ahead with lightning speed.

Truly Enjoying Joan Stewart's Publicity Hound 89-Day Press Release Free Online Training

Check out the Publicity Hound's autoresponder course on press releases "89 Ways to Write Powerful Press Releases." There is something in it for everyone, really--doesn't matter what business you're in. Stewart gives plenty of ideas that should inspire me, you, and our buddies. To get on this course, sign up on her website: http://www.publicityhound.com, on the landing page, where it reads: "Free Tutorial: How to Write Press Releases."

Enjoy yourself!

Learn to Network from a Master: Read the National Bestseller NEVER EAT ALONE by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz

Just finished a fabulous book on networking, Never Eat Alone. Every chapter is full of incredibly useful tidbits on socializing for business and personal satisfaction. In the age of connection in which we currently live there is perhaps nothing more important for success than this element of the business puzzle. (Maybe there never was anything more important?) For without a circle of influence, without mentors and mentees, without family and friends, without a passionate community of likeminded individuals to share resources and develop ourselves, wouldn't our lives be empty? Wouldn't we all be like the sound of one hand clapping?

As I often remind my clients and students, as writers we are creating a relationship with our readers. The form in which our content is communicated varies from project to project--audio books, digital books, hardcover books, paperback books, newsletters, workshops, blogs, podcasts, and so on--but the messenger doesn't change. If you know what you stand for and what your goal is, keep reaching out and making connections with people who want that. You'll find you have mutual interests with people on different levels. I love how real Ferrazzi comes across. The man accepts himself and hungers for authenticity from everyone around him.

There are loads of great ideas to emulate here. I challenge you to execute one of the strategies he mentions within the next month, let's say by October 1st. Then tell me about it and whether or not it was successful for you.

Digital Book on Inner Peace and Stress Reduction Created with Healing Music Composer Eliana Gilad in Response to the Israel-Hezbollah War

After returning from Orlando three weeks ago, I realized how imperative it was for my client Eliana Gilad to bring her message of peace to the world now, especially when so many people in the Middle East are suffering from the pain of loss and uncertainty, anger, fear, and frustration. Working on a daily basis, we have now completed her electronic book Quiet in the Eye of the Storm: Living Peace in a War Zone. Here's a short excerpt from my foreword:

"With Quiet in the Eye of the Storm, Eliana Gilad is calling out to the wise inner voice of our divine selves to be expressed to and through us so we may begin to live more peacefully today, whether we confront a war or any other crisis in our lives. Her aim, as I understand it, is to instruct us and share with us how to draw upon a personal resource, the powerful essence of goodness and health that dwells at the bottom of every human being, so we may recognize our wholeness and survive our troubled times unscathed. Leaving behind the politics of who is right and who is wrong, and all the contradictions those kinds of judgments bring that rattle and disturb us, she speaks from the heart to each one of us about a grander, simpler vision of a world in which all people, one by one, are blended in harmony. Her book is about love, compassion, and it is for you and me, and every likeminded person interested in shifting the consciousness of our world."

If this topic interests you, please visit Eliana's special website for the book: http://www.peace-in-war.com. The book is being translated now into Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, German, French, and Spanish.