Your writing career
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Tools to fight fear #5: Focus
You will have to work to harness your energy and focus, because without focus, you can go off on an ineffective tangent and squander all of your other tools. In a business, you need to conserve all of your reserves and get the biggest return on your efforts. Focus allow you to do just that. Focus pulls you into the present, and if you’re dealing with the regrets of the past that leads to depression or the fears of the future that populate anxiety, it probably feels like staying in the present is damn near impossible. You do have the ability to harness and channel your thoughts and your…
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Tools to fight fear #4: Courage
You might think that courage would come in at number one, but in order to have courage, you need to have a store of energy, a positive perspective and loads of determination to see things through. I mentioned in the introduction that anxiety often substitutes itself for assertiveness, and if you are tired of running from the room in search of relief from your anxiety and you’re ready to stand up for yourself, courage will serve you in doing so. Courage is not the absence of fear (nothing short of brain damage will completely alleviate fear), but the guts to go after what you want despite the fact that you’re…
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Tools to fight fear #2: Perspective
The second tool that you’ll need in your arsenal to tackle fear is perspective. We looked earlier at how determination provides a powerful engine for keeping you going past fear. Today, we’re giving the same treatment to your perspective. While determination is the fuel that keeps you going, perspective determines how you see every aspect of your situation. “Do I really have what it takes to go trough this? Do I want to take this thing head on? Is this really going to be as bad as I’m afraid it will be?” all of those questions are answered by your perspective. In the beginning, your perspective really is all…
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Tools to fight fear #1: Determination
If you lack determination, don’t worry that it’s a moral issue. It means that currently you’re lacking in: Intrinsic Motivation: This is an internal motivation, everything that lives amongst your deepest needs and desires. Without intrinsic motivation, there is no unmet goal or desire. You have nothing to move you forward towards something. You may be in a situation where you’ve been so hurt in the past that you don’t want to get motivated about anything. The thought of losing something else in some point of the future made you turn off your desire to want anything. I’ve been there, but if you’re numb to wanting anything, you’re about…
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3 surprising things I learned from being self employed [Video]
Working for myself is fraught with surprises, and in this video I talk about three things that I learned about myself once I became my own boss. http://youtu.be/31o8KNIXlYY
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Why you’ll always be second place [Video]
http://youtu.be/FeZSJrTgKbI It’s not a lack of know-how that keeps you in second place. It’s the smell of desperation that holds you back from become the best at what you do. The truth is that it’s your attitude (and your mistaken business practices) that keep you in second place. In this video, I talk about how your own actions work to keep you number two (no pun intended). The biggest factor in determining your place in your market has very little to do with the quality of your product, customer service, potential, or even something that your competition does. It’s you, you YOU- all about you!
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[Podcast] Marketing isn’t what you think or fear it is
I’m back with more advice for those new writers out there. This time, I’m challenging the image that you probably have of marketing.
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Your guide to French newspapers
If you’re looking for a way to speed up your comprehension of written French, reading from a French newspaper is one of the most effective (and cheapest) ways to do so. For the past six months, Transparent Language Blog has compiled an extensive list of newspapers from across the country, and you can add them to your RSS feed for a daily dose of French. In addition to the French blog, Transparent language has bloggers- usually native speakers- who post on a regular basis about the language and the countries culture associated with each language. There’s an extensive list of languages that are covered- some as exotic as Icelandic. Newspapers…
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Basic translation terms freelance writers need to know [Video]
Every field has its jargon, and in this video I’ll explain the basic terms you’ll find in translation. (Why do I look like one of those angry anchors on Fox News in this thumbnail?!?!??)
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Myths that keep you from learning a new language
Believing in them wastes your time and holds your writing career up.