The Power of the Right State of Mind

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You know what, I just wrote the start of a whole spiel. Life's not worth it.

I'm no natural at copywriting. Most people aren't, though. Yet I feel that everything I write nowadays is worth 100x its worth a year ago. Why? I've not studied overly. I don't practice overly, being mainly a content writer. I don't even read much at the moment.

Yet my head and my heart are in a damn good place.

You cannot always be there. Life isn't always going to be a fun ride. Yet you can make the most of it, ups, downs, and all.

There may have been a number of factors that got me to this place, but you know what one of the most important was, at least as far as my professional life goes? I'm not chasing that dollar.

You know what, I thought: let them come. If I have enough to provide for my family, what the hell does it matter if I cannot afford a new TV.

So what happened next? I've suddenly got more work than ever before, and am making more money than any month bar one since I set up on my own.

So just sit back and look at the good things you've got. Don't forgot them. Not everything good is in front of you, some of it is right in front of your eyes.
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  • How we feel as we write tends to communicate on some level. I always check my inner self first before I write anything anymore. Wasn't always like that, but I have learned how powerful it is.
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    • Damn right. I've learned to stop writing if I'm in a really bad state. Do some meditation, listen to some music, go to the gym and lift heavy @#$% to get back in the right state again before writing. It definitely shows up in the work.
  • Yeah, when you chase the dollar you forget about value. And chasing itself is a bitch.

    You just want to be paid decently, and be left alone, doing what you're good at. But the pressure of chasing...it breaks careers.
  • I agree with the replies and also am pleased things are going well for you now. I always believe that one should concentrate of what their best skills are and work on improving what they are less able to do well.

    After all, as long as we wake up to another day, we have another opportunity to be better than yesterday. in dollars but in the happiness that your results and achievments give you. The happier you are the greater the future success and money will eventually follow as a result.

    Enthusasm and passion are hard to fake but stand out when it grips and drives us forward. Keep striving to improve because good things do come along when you have earned them.

    Good to see so many people who think along the same lines.

    Stephen & Jennifer.
  • So long as you can make your family happy and provide for their wants and needs, then you have truly succeeded, no matter what amount of money you are earning.
  • It's really interesting that you'd say that. There's an issue* of the Gary Halbert Letter, one that's "banned" and not available on the website, where Halbert mentions he'd undergone a litany of psychological tests in LA.

    This guy was supposedly "The World's Greatest Copywriter," and you know what that flotilla of psychologists and psychiatrists concluded? Apart from a few minor differences like anyone has, one thing astonished them...

    Gary Halbert attached less importance to money than anyone those doctors had ever examined!



    * June 2000
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    The Power of the Right State of Mind

    You know what, I just wrote the start of a whole spiel. Life's not worth it. I'm no natural at copywriting. Most people aren't, though. Yet I feel that everything I write nowadays is worth 100x its worth a year ago. Why? I've not studied overly. I don't practice overly, being mainly a content writer. I don't even read much at the moment.