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E.L. Doctorow once said: "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing, and learn as you go."
As my daily writing experiments have shown, he is right. Writing can reveal a lot about the world and ourselves.
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You don't want to start.
Your heart goes faster.
You and your thoughts move quicker. You start to pace.
You're in a mild panic.
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I love to read and absorb new information.
We get a dopamine hit when we learn something novel.
It's like our body rewarding us for taking on a new perspective that can serve us in our need to survive and thrive.
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Hey Malcolm, buddy, 'stop taking life so seriously!'
Malcolm winced as he stared into his coffee.
He knew Daphne had a point.
He had to pinch himself because he'd forgotten again.
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I had a guy approach me recently with a dilemma.
He felt stuck and didn't know how to best spend his thirties and beyond.
He needed a change from his job.
He was feeling burned out and quite fed up.
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could this be your next phase?
I don't know if you've noticed, but the world is changing rather quickly.
People are worried about the future.
Little seems safe and secure.
A job seems risky.
And the reality is that AI will replace many.
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They say there are no shortcuts in life.
Well, this depends on the knowledge you have and the perspective you take.
Here are some examples of money-making shortcuts that DO work:
Learn one money-making system.
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I see people talking about how the kindest, friendliest, happiest people are often those who went through loads of misery.
'They've seen things.'
'Only those who've been to the dark side can truly know life.'
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You've committed to a mission, project or cause with no Plan B. Failure is not an option.
Your mission is one that would be deemed 'absurd' or 'unreasonable' by even those closest to you. And you smile to yourself because this is precisely why you chose it.
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Back in caveman days, being disciplined was so easy that discipline wasn't even a thing.
With a continual threat of death and starvation, there were genuine and visceral reasons for doing things with urgency, even if you didn't want to do them.
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For most of my life, I believed motivation was a personality trait possessed by the lucky few.
I was wrong.
It turns out we cultivate unstoppable motivation through our behaviours.
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I was told today that I'm number three out of the top writers on Medium for self-improvement.
Out of a pool of tens of thousands of writers, that's pretty neat, and it motivates me to write more.
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I beat myself up when I procrastinate.
Life is so damn short. For me, it's inexcusable to lose too much time to excuse-making.
But I know how important it is to produce things—not just one or two things, but many things—similar things—day after day after day.
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Take a moment to bring all your problems into your awareness all at the same time.
You'll likely find it quite hard to do.
Because we can only think of one thought at a time.
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Last week, I watched a sparrow hunker down in a drizzle.
It was a cutey.
It's claws gripped the branch, the wind picking up, the bird looked around with keen, sharp head turns.
It seemed unperturbed by the declining weather.
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The foundational habits that will attract more success into your life
Lucky is not a personality trait.
Nor is it a divine blessing.
I've spent years figuring out what makes people find success and attract positive things into their lives.
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After fifteen years of writing consistently online, I've learned there is no end point you reach where all your writing woes suddenly diminish.
I'm continually learning and constantly adapting.
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I've always been hypersensitive and can get overwhelmed by thinking.
I can be wholly incapacitated physically, even though a party's going on in my head.
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I learned to drive in Kingston, Jamaica in the early 2000s.
My family was posted there.
Kingston had the highest murder rate in the world at the time, and my local instructor liked to keep things interesting.
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Clients often approach me to help them figure out how to stand out and get more engagement online.
Not one person who succeeds at a high level, in the long run, fails to understand their deeper WHY.
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Getting your creative work noticed, let alone gaining fans and followers can seem like a lost cause.
So much quality. So many energetic souls. A multitude of talent out there to compete with.
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If the header of this article got you annoyed, you might benefit from reading on.
I know, I'm being cheeky.
But how we interpret the world (and the juicy hooks we read) plays a big role in our overall well-being.
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What I learned over 38 years I wish I was told when I was younger.
Personality is temporary and made up. You can be who you want to be.
No one has the power to lower your self-esteem because self-esteem is an illusion.
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I was talking to someone recently about the stress they were having.
They described how challenging it could be at work with all the pressure of tight deadlines and a boss who didn't seem to have any empathy.
Their work and their boss stressed them out daily.
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Some of you have been around long enough to remember this.
Over 15 years ago, I launched an ebook on online promotion for creatives. I already had a small newsletter at the time, but I hadn't done much to grow it.
I thought it would be enough to get the word out.
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Many think seeking attention is tasteless.
They associate it with influencers doing stupid dances or entrepreneurs humble-bragging about their cars.
But getting attention for your ideas isn't about you.
It's about your message reaching the people who need it most.
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I get it, 'happiness' isn't really a thing.
It's fleeting.
At the same time, most of us instinctively know what we mean by happy, so I'm going to stick with it for this article.
The following habits will clarify what I mean anyway...
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We all want to be liked.
It means safety, gifts, validation, a sense of confidence.
I can relate.
My actions over the last 37 years have absolutely been influenced by a deep need to be liked.
It's why social media works so well.
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It was getting absurd.
For the last three days in a row, I'd been turning off the lamp on my bedside annoyed that I didn't get done what I said I would.
To write that many words.
I was annoyed with myself for wasting time. Again.
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Can we visualise the artist's path - from total beginner to expert?
Here's what to expect:
The Innocent
Raw potential. No habits to unlearn.
Everything looks like magic.
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A while back, I lost my drive.
Don't worry. I was okay. I wasn't having a full-blown mid-life crisis.
It was more of a dull, creeping kind of hum that seemed to whisper to me that work wasn't particularly interesting anymore.
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(and what changed)
When I started writing online over a decade ago, I thought I had it figured out
I'd write about the topics I found interesting, hit publish, and wait for the magic to happen.
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Being 'centred.'
What does that mean to you?
Is this a state of being - reserved only for orange-robed monks living in mountain-top monasteries?
Is being centred only for 'spiritual' people?
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It's easy to get stuck in a rut. We can judge our progress to be slow and make it slower by escaping to cheap dopamine hits.
Often, it needn't take much to get back on track and give what we are already creating a boost:
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Decades of clumsily spoiling my relationships, combined with an unhealthy obsession into human behaviour and attraction-dynamics has compelled me to write this for you love-birds.
Let's get down and dirty:
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Life is too short to spend time away from the things that do not fascinate us.
Yet so many go through their entire lives ignoring their deeper fascinations because they prefer to play it safe and avoid looking a fool.
Don't let this be you.
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All our suffering stems from the belief we have a 'self' to protect.
Bold, right?
I stand firmly by this, but I'm not the first to make such an assertion.
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No matter who you are, or what your situation is, let's commit to this year being better than ever.
Let's not settle for unhappy and mediocre.
How?
Keep it simple. Forget habits, resolutions, and goals for now.
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(Tactics used by great writers that seem 'wrong' but work)
Most writing advice is predictable: write every day, just show up, outline everything, and edit like you hate yourself.
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Making lots of money gets a bad rap these days. People think it's greedy. Rich people are often regarded with scorn.
Many say it's really hard to make lots of it...
With bills to pay and dreams to catch, a part of you wants more of it.
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Fear always struck me as something to avoid.
I learned over the years that fear created a false sense of what was worth doing and what should be avoided.
I believed scary things were the Universe telling me to cut and run.
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You're overwhelmed,
With all the things you have to do.
Your mind is spinning on all that can be done,
And all the reasons you cannot.
Molasses oozes through the spokes,
Slowing you to a halt.
Your fear sits on you, like an enormous, furry swine,
Holding you down till your ribs turn in.
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If I had a magic ingredient that allowed you to reach all your goals, would you read on?
If I knew exactly why we ALL fail to see things through to completion and fruition, would you perk up and take note?
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Can you challenge yourself?
We know the importance of habits.
We know that successful habits create successful people when they are brought into everyday action. We are what we repeatedly do.
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I used to love reading the Goosebumps horror novels.
Years later, I watched a Masterclass course with Goosebumps writer R.L. Stine teaching writing for children.
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Every self-driven creator I meet wants to be more productive.
They say, 'Hey Alex, I wish I had a clone. How can I find one?'
I look them dead in the eye and say, 'You'll need to wait 14 years before your clone arrives.'
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That feeling.
I can't quite pinpoint what it is.
A hollowness maybe. Boredom of some kind.
A heaviness in my abdominals.
Sort of like I don't want to be here.
A kind of denial of the present.
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A big struggle of mine has always been the need to do many different things.
There is so much to keep us busy in this crazy world that can drag us in many directions.
The problem with this is that it's easy to lose focus. We end up doing less of more.
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No one really gives a s#it.
Your greatest hurdle right now is thinking that other people might judge you. It stops you showing up in any form.
I can't tell you how much of my life has been spent worrying about what others think of me.
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We get frustrated because we aren't progressing as we had planned.
We aren't there with the traction we hoped we'd be getting with all this work we're putting in.
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Realise that worrying won't help, even if it feels like you have more control over life.
You don't. You really don't. And this is good.
A relief for all of us, friend. When we stop worrying, we give space for fresh wisdom to emerge effortlessly.
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It took me writing and publishing hundreds of articles online before anyone took much notice.
I wanted to quit a hundred times.
But I continued to write and publish into the dark void of the Internet because:
I wanted to get better as a writer.
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There's this interesting thing people do - often as they get older.
Not all of us, but you see it in many.
We close doors to things in an attempt to simplify our lives.
We say, 'I'm not going to go to conferences anymore.'
Door closed.
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One of the big lessons I learned after years and years of anxiety and personal insecurities was the power of habits.
Doing things repeatedly always leaves a groove.
Habits aren't just for physical health and business growth.
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I've noticed something interesting about the people others actually listen to.
They don't do what most people think they should do to be heard.
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We can develop habits that become concrete, but that hold us back without us realising it.
Here are some things to be aware of that might be creating bottlenecks in your performance and resulting productivity:
1. Leaving too much time for completion.
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Decades on this jolly little planet have shown me that I'm just not very conventional.
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When I look at some of my earlier writing, I notice how my paragraphs were often long-winded.
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Woke shite on Netflix is out.
Learning, reading and creating dope shit that makes you money is in.
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(I was in Tokyo)
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I've been criticised all my life.
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We all grow up surrounded by ideas about how life is 'supposed to be.'
Get a degree. Find a stable job. Buy a house. Long commutes to work.
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Earlier today I was looking at my screen, breathing heavily but I wasn't all there.
I just wasn't feeling inspired.
I couldn't be bothered.
I just wanted to lie down and do nothing. So I did.
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Let's jump straight in...
You depend on them for 'self-esteem.'
First of all, self-esteem isn't real. You made it up. Secondly, if you need someone else's validation to make you feel good, you shouldn't be in a relationship.
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Creativity can be effortless in some moments and a nightmare in others.
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How will you respond?
You just suffered a setback.
What you wanted didn't turn out the way you'd hoped.
You had an expectation.
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You feel deflated.
You're empty but angry.
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I calculated I've created and published over 200,000 pieces of content over the last fifteen years.
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By 2012, sharing my work online had already changed my life.
I was earning enough from remote illustration work to live anywhere with an internet connection. So I chose Tokyo.
This freedom didn't happen overnight.
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There is a constant force that slowly and subtly works against your individuality.
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It's time to draw a line in the sand, friend.
It's time to stop pretending you don't want real success, solid income and excellent health.
Your excuses are lies, and they keep you down.
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