Eliminating Guilt
Today I'd like to start with an item that didn't make it on last week's list but that's at the core of why many of us don't write. It's the guilt we feel when we're writing and we think we should be doing something else, the guilt we feel when we refuse other activities in order to write. It's particularly acute when dealing with family and close friends, or when faced with the many tasks of running a business. This guilt is a double edged sword because most of us also feel guilty when we don't write. But this guilt does us no good. It weighs us down and we spend time focused on being guilty that could be spent working on our writing, or doing all the other things…