Today Jacob Krueger continues to talk about Fear and it’s role in procrastination.
Question (from a participant in the 2010 writing challenge):
I’ve been doing the challenge, but I hate everything I’m writing. And now I feel like I’m starting to lose steam.
Jake’s Answer:
As writers we play a strange game with ourselves. Instead of dwelling on our successes, we focus on our failures as evidence that we were not meant to be writers. Usually this has more to do with fear than anything else. Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear that we don’t have what it takes.
When your judgment of your writing is based on fear, it has little connection to reality. You may dismiss brilliant writing as terrible simply because you are afraid that others won’t like it. Or you may fall in love with scenes that are not working, simply because they feel safe to you.
There are many ways to overcome these kinds of fears. Many writers find that it helps to get honest feedback on their work from writers they respect. That is one of the benefits of being part of Jake’s Workshops or Master Classes. This is a community where you can receive honest feedback about what is actually working or not working in your writing, rather than playing out your worst fears in your head.
Jake continues to explain that writers block isn’t just about the actual writing. It’s about the subconscious, underlying emotions that get in the way of writing. For deep rooted emotional blocks, many students set up private coaching sessions. In these sessions, Jake teaches them to use cutting-edge hypnotic techniques to get under the surface, uncover the subconscious roots of creative blocks, and eliminate them at the source.
Here’s something you can do today to put yourself on the path to discovering the writer within you: give yourself the permission to write badly. Jake will explain what he means by that in tomorrow’s post
We are getting closer to the fr.ee teleseminar for on “Conquering Procrastination and Fear that Overcomes You” This is a powerful teleworkshop For Intelligent People Who Get Stuck.” Want to be invited?
GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions or who is doing Jake’s writers challenge, will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar “Re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination“. For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer. It will be given January 2010. Details will be emailed to you shortly if you are on the invite list.
Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.
There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab. You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.
2. Send a question to Audrey, the colored link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off. We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.