I'm Not A Writer, But I Write
Ok so I can hear you now saying “that’s ok for you, you’re a writer but I’m not”. Well let me clue you in I AM NOT A WRITER, BUT I DO WRITE. You see I realized that it was a lot easier to set down and write the articles on this site and in the process help other people than anything I was doing for any job I have ever had. Now I will be the first to admit it took a bit of determination to spend my free time when I wasn’t at my job setting in front of a computer typing these articles.
I decided that I was going to do this for a number of different reasons. I wanted to help other people break free of the chains that held them bound to whatever job it was that they were doing. I also wanted to be able to set my own hours and level of dedication. I have always been a dedicated and dependable employee for my boss so now it was time to learn to be dependable for myself. As I set out to do this that old evil nemesis entered the picture. Self doubt began to creep in telling me “you’re not a writer, what makes you think you can do this”. I started to think about all the reasons why this couldn’t possible work and that old familiar paralysis began to take over.
Let me tell you now there were many battles that I fought with the toughest advisory I know and that advisory was I. Some of the conversations with me took on the light of
You’re not a writer
You’re too old to start this
You have no experience doing anything like this
What will your friends think about all of this?
These and many other battles will be covered in future articles but for now allow me to say this. IT WAS ONLY WHEN I DECIDED THAT I DIDN’T NEED TO BE A WRITER THAT I WAS ABLE TO PUT ALL OF THE OTHER BATTLES TO REST.
Anyone can write yes anyone, it just takes some determination. You may start out slow, you may get discouraged and even feel like giving up long before you have even really started but now when all is said and done the one thing I am completely sure of is that if I can do this then I know anyone can.