That which doesn’t kill me, only makes me stronger–Fredrick Nietzsche
Life is full of peaks and valleys, the trick is to enjoy the good times and hold on to them in the bad times. It’s easy to get caught up in your hurt or anger and stew in your emotions until you’ve become a bitter old prune.
It’s up to you whether you let your set backs define you or you pick yourself up and try again. It’s easy to give up before you’ve started. Trust me I know.
I used to criticize everything but never offered solutions and was a general downer who was never satisfied with anything.
But then I made a choice to stop complaining and start doing. Anyone can talk a big game but when it comes down to it not many can back up their words with actions.
I’d been calling myself a writer yet didn’t write or only wrote in sporadic bursts when it felt right.
That is until I made a commitment to the craft and discovered Jeff Goins’s Tribe Writer Program and within three months had finished my first novel and began work on my second one, which I just finished.
I’m not going to lie, there were rough patches along the way and I stumbled, but it was in those dark times I learned what I was made of.
Anyone can shine when everything goes your way the but the mark of true determination is doing what you’re called to do when everything is against you.
Yes, keep your goals realistic. But also dare to dream because otherwise you’ll churn out mediocre crap. There will be times you want to quit. Don’t.
That’s when you dig in and find that inner strength to carry you on through.
Don’t see obstacles as road blocks but as learning experiences. With every set back or rejection letter you learn something and your writing gets betters.
