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9 Important Tips for Sometimes Writers

When I finally decided to get serious about writing I scoured the interwebs and talked to as many real writers as possible for the best tricks of the trade. I knew that if I could gather as much advice as possible and build a system that was personalized just for me, I’d be successful.

As a point of clarification, I’m not a full-time writer and don’t really plan on becoming one. I have a very demanding full time job that I love, a lovely wife, and an adorable/hellish 4-month-old daughter. So if you’re reading this, you’re probably a lot like me. You want to write, maybe dream of launching a blog or completing a book, but you don’t have the liberty to write for a living – at least not yet.

Below are the top nine tips, ideas, and concepts that have helped me get going, complete projects, build a writing structure, and keep momentum.

9. You Don’t Have To Write Everyday

People always say that you have to write everyday. That’s a great rule and I really wish I could follow it, but some days it’s just not possible. The gospel of having to write everyday can be daunting. In fact, I think it actually puts people off from writing at all. If you know they can’t write everyday, what’s the point of doing it at all?

So in my life, I’ve changed the rule to just be, “look at your writing every day.” I’ve found that on those days when I’m destroyed from a full day of work, stressed out, and the baby is crying – I’m just not going to get anything productive done on a blog, book, or proposal.

Yet with the five spare minutes while I get ready for bed, I can pull up writing I’ve started and have a quick look at it. I’ve found just the exercise of remembering about your writing keeps the momentum going. It keeps you thinking during the next day about a funny anecdote, a smooth transition, or a new blog title. It keeps your writing on the forefront of your mind and that’s the most important part. Then, on the day where you do have a free hour or two, the house is quiet, and you’re feeling creative, you can really get to work.

8. Eat protein

Peanut butter toast. A glass of milk. Sometimes I’ll do deli meat straight out of the bag. Your brain doesn’t work without protein. Load up before sitting down.

7. Pump the jams

Good music can fuel good writing. This is a no brainer. But for me, if the song has lyrics, I can’t concentrate. To get amped up, I actually listen to instrumental metal, (ie, Russian Circles, Pelican), and to get melancholy I go with instrumental electronica (The Album Leaf, Explosions In The Sky).

6. Spend money on really good writing tools

A writing organization tool is a great investment. There are lots of out there, but I use Scrivener. You can’t keep a book or blog organized in Microsoft Word. Best $40 I’ve ever spent. If you’re planning on doing a book proposal, follow Michael Hyatt’s guides – $20 for either fiction or nonfiction. I just finished my first proposal using these and I highly recommend them.

5. Learn the art of writing total crap

Ernest Hemingway famously said, “Write drunk, edit sober.” While I can’t exactly condone his methods, the concept is dead on. To be successful, you need to learn to write without any inhibitions. For most aspiring authors, the first step is mastering the art of writing without editing at the same time. In your most creative moments, force yourself to not fix spelling errors or sentence structure and just word-vomit all over the place. You’ll come back later to clean it up.

Some days I can’t help but get nitpicky. Those are the days I pick up my phone. I’ll write for 20 minutes straight on a note on my iPhone. While the typing is harder, it’s impossible to edit. So you’re forced to just keep going. So often the stuff I knock out on my iPhone becomes the best content for a blog or book chapter.

4. Put out a free ebook

If you have anything of value to share, put it into a PDF, host it on Dropbox or Amazon, and make it easy for people to download it. Last year, I wrote a little ebook called “Doing Work That Matters.” To date it’s had thousands of downloads, which means thousands of emails addresses I’ve collected and thousands of new people engaging with my writing. It was one of the smartest decisions I’ve ever made and has laid the foundation for many new writing projects.

3. Read The War of Art every few months

Steven Pressfield’s, The War of Art, is still one of the most important books of my entire professional life. I actually have it scheduled on my calendar to re-read it every quarter. This book will help you fight ‘the resistance’, break down your creative barriers, and find the motivation you need to finish projects.

2. Turn off your Wi-Fi

This is one of the most important tips of all. I can tell a drastic difference in productivity on the days my Wi-Fi is enabled and on the days it’s not. Even if you need to look something up for the book or blog, make a note and come back to it. Online research is easy, writing is not. Don’t waste peak creative time online.

1. Find your sacred space

All writers need their sacred space. My church recently gave me access to a small room that I can access during the week. It’s been one of the greatest gifts they could have ever given me. You’re not going to do your best work on the same couch where you watch TV or the same kitchen table where you eat dinner. Determine a place that is entirely yours and entirely devoted to writing.

9 Important Tips for Sometimes Writers is a post from: Storyline Blog

You Should Give Yourself a Little More Grace

Have you ever tried to quit a bad habit but went right back after the first relapse? Let’s say you’re quitting caffeine, then a bleary day hits and you have that one cup of coffee, only to go right back to the old habit. It’s almost as though that first slip up lets go the flood.

I used to be all or nothing about stuff like this but I recently had a conversation with Bill Lokey who helped me understand relapses are part of the process of changing a behavior.

Some of you know Bill.

He has spoken at Storyline Conference, is a Clinical Psychologist and knows a great deal about how and why people change.

Just the other day, Bill and I were talking about habits, how they form and how we can change them and he mentioned something I thought was interesting. He said when he works with somebody to help them change a habit, relapse is part of the program.

You heard me correctly.

Relapse is part of the program.

He said when somebody tries to quit smoking, they normally relapse three to four times before they finally quit.

He also mentioned that it was important for people to have some grace toward themselves about behavior change. The idea is to keep moving forward, but when we slip up, simply plant our feet and keep moving, slowly, but further than the place where we slipped up before.

Photo Credit: Mikaela Hamilton

I found this helpful, not only with changing habits, but in life in general. If you grew up in a religious community, you’re likely to have encountered an all-or-nothing mentality. When there are lots of rules, there is usually lots of judgment and lots of shame and lots of hiding our mistakes. This is terribly unhealthy for creating, well, health.

God offers grace

But when a community is trying to control people, grace isn’t a well understood or exchanged concept.

Here’s the big idea: A lack of grace toward ourselves actually hurts us if we are trying to make progress in any area of our lives.

The key seems to be to intentionally move forward with full effort, but quickly shake off and forgive slip-ups.

What would it look like?

What would it look like to allow yourself to be perfectly human?

What would change in your life if you let go of an all-or-nothing mentality and you stopped shaming yourself for the occasional slip up, while you still attempted to move forward in life and in character?

Anything you need to have a little more grace toward in your life?

You Should Give Yourself a Little More Grace is a post from: Storyline Blog

Channeling the Anticipation of Advent

It’s Advent, otherwise known as the season when retailers you didn’t even know existed are bombing your email inbox with coupons for crap you didn’t even know existed. Buy a dog bed online, and Hammacher Schlemmer will send you an offer on a John Deere Cuckoo clock, complete with a different tractor sound on every hour! Or a remote-controlled dirigible.

Photo Credit: Ken

They can also throw in some Advent-themed crap. Like this Barbie Advent calendar.

I used to love going to the mall during Advent.

For one, the decorations were out for only 30 days. (Today, when they up the Christmas décor, you know Labor Day can’t be far off.) Second, my father’s optometry practice was in the mall. My siblings and I would visit him and look for gift ideas. On Christmas Eve, Dad would close up at noon, so we could help him shop for Mom.

Later, when my brothers were off at college, we’d save the trip to the mall for the day they got home. The trip to the mall was fun; and it was more about being together.

This year, my husband and I visited the mall on Black Friday afternoon.

The vibe was one of voracious acquisition.

The clerk at JC Penny told us they didn’t close on Thanksgiving Day. She worked until 3AM, went home and slept for a couple hours, and then came back. This is Advent according to the Gospel of Greed. And it’s not the real one.

The real Advent begins the Church year, four Sundays before Christmas Day. It is a season of anticipation – not for gifts but for the Big Gift: God with us.

We live in A.D. — Anno Domine, the Year of the Lord. God is available to anyone who asks. Prior to the birth of Christ, people didn’t experience God’s presence first-hand. The high priests who had access to the inner sanctum might feel it. A prophet might be taken up into a fever dream and “prophesy.”

But that was it.

Imagine a life without electricity. Your house goes dark at dusk, and you sleep next to your fireplace to keep warm. Down the street, there’s one house with the lights and heat on 24/7. On special days you get to visit the electric house. You can read all night with the lights on or feel warm in any corner of the house.

Then one day you get a letter that they’re going to wire your home for electricity and central heating. The day is four weeks away. Imagine how you’d wait in breathless anticipation of that day.

That’s what Advent is about:

Waiting for the day God shows up for all of us.

Many liturgical churches publish an Advent devotional. Get your hands on one. Give yourself time to meditate on what is really worth waiting for. That way, you can visit the mall and enjoy it for what it is.

Heck, go buy four scented candles at Bath & Bodyworks and use them in your Advent wreath. Have some fun with Advent. Just please, do not buy the Barbie Advent calendar or a John Deere tractor clock.

Channeling the Anticipation of Advent is a post from: Storyline Blog

How to Deal with Pain You Can’t Fix

We spend a good amount of energy trying to avoid pain. Our bodies are created with nerves that are sensitive to pain; they send messages to our brain in an instant telling us to move our hand away from the flame, or letting us know we just stepped on something sharp.

We would be foolish to avoid those warnings. Otherwise, we’d be pretty mangled up people limping about our lives with missing body parts.

But there is another type of pain.

A kind I am equally desperate to avoid, and that is soul pain. Pain that lurks below the surface where there is broken relationships, dashed hopes, uncertain futures. This type of pain is the root of all kinds of anxiety as it creeps up within us and tells us to avoid this pain at all cost. But it’s not easy to avoid. You can’t just simply jerk your soul away from a broken relationship and act as though it didn’t burn you. We all get burned.

So how do we deal with that kind of pain?

I have a daughter with Asperger Syndrome.

She is the love of my life, but her life is really hard. There is a good chance that she will live with us her whole life because she will never be fully independent. She has been my mentor in this.

At night her anxiety runs really high, she is scared about her future and wonders why all her friends from school have gone on with their life, and most have left her behind. My gut is wrenched for her, I hurt with her, and I worry what will happen to her when I am gone.

Photo Credit: Mikaela Hamilton

I want to grab her and yank us both away from the flame of this soul crushing pain, but there is no where to go.

So I hold her.

And we sit there inside the pain.

It is a place of learning for her and me, I suppose. We are learning to accept life on life’s terms and not try to find a quick escape out of the loss that she feels, and her mom and I feel.

Now we have tried every quick fix plan to make it all ok, but there is a dangerous type of grace in this sort of pain, that won’t succumb to a quick fix. It is grace that teaches me that we are supposed to go through pain and not around it. Every attempt to find a highway around pain is cut off and we are left with this present moment to be here, together, and weep.

God tells us his perfect love casts out fear.

I used to scratch my head at the one. But I am starting to see what it means.

When we stand in our pain, wrap our arms around it, accept life on life’s terms, we learn we are not alone. There is another set of arms around us, the pain, the situation, this moment. Then the fear dissipates and gives way to hope, and love and faith. That there is The One who has gone through pain to bring life, and He holds us in our pain to create a new place within us, for his life to grow.

How to Deal with Pain You Can’t Fix is a post from: Storyline Blog

How Codependency Holds Both People Back

Recently I found myself wanting to fix somebody. It’s a bad habit. I’ve had it all my life and I’m getting better in percentages.

Wanting to fix somebody is basically codependency. Perhaps in its mild form, but codependency all the same.

If there’s been any health evolving in my life over the years it’s been in learning that other people are other people and their psychological health is not my responsibility (within reason, of course). By that, I mean if other people make bad decisions then those decisions are theirs, not mine. I must be strong enough to walk away and allow them to fail or suffer their own consequences.

That’s tough stuff to learn.

Especially if you’re the helper/teacher/prophet type.

I had a life coach last year who taught me that my job was to be a coach, an inspirer, an instructor, but not a friend. That was hard for me to receive and live, and yet I credit my life coach for my current sanity.

Can you really be close friends with thousands? Eventually, people have to be responsible for their own lives. And besides, nobody will really respect you if you start moving into their psychological territory. Each of us were given a mind.

And it’s our mind, not anybody else’s.

I recently heard Dr. Henry Cloud tell a funny joke. He said, “You know you’re codependent when, right before you die, somebody else’s life flashes before your eyes.”

So, I’m curious…Do you have clear boundaries between what is your responsibility and what’s somebody else’s?

Are you able to let people fail?

Can you be somebody’s supporter without owning too much of their lives?

I’m learning. And the more I learn, the happier I am.

How Codependency Holds Both People Back is a post from: Storyline Blog

Why You Need a Mid-Life Crisis

I am middle aged. By every definition I fall squarely in that season of life. I am in my mid-forties, think about my mortgage more than I should, and have three kids (a teen, a tween, and a toddler).

The other night my wife and I were joking with friends about how we are due for a mid-life crisis. She was quick to remind me that neither a sports car nor a mistress was in the budget. Laughing, she told me I would have to come up with something else.

The conversation got me thinking.

At its core, a mid-life crisis is a grand moment of clarity. In the crisis we come to grips with our own mortality and realize that the life we are living is inconsistent with what we really want. It is an analysis that compares our actions with our core priorities and expectations.

*Photo by John Pavliga, Creative Commons

The expectations some of us hold are laced with selfishness and narcissism. This can lead us to abandon jobs, families, and other responsibilities and try to live as if we are someone we are not. Insert the common tropes of overcompensating middle managers, convertibles, and affairs. This type of mid-life crisis inevitably disappoints.

There is a more noble option.

Our expectations and what we most want can lead to good decisions if they are centered on generous and loving priorities. In this context, we may reorient our lives away from jobs we merely endure to vocations about which we are passionate.

We focus on the core relationships in our lives and reconnect with our spouse, children, parents, and faith. We realize that we have allowed the momentum of circumstances to unwittingly carry us away from what matters most. We take the good things we have been putting off until someday – and make them action items for today.

That is a crisis worth having regularly.

The problem with a mid-life crisis is not the crisis itself. If there is a problem, it stems from trading things of real value for hollow promises. Destructive and irresponsible behavior is not the inevitable result of a mid-life crisis. The mid-life crisis itself can be quite helpful because it forces us to ask ourselves several questions:

Is my life out of alignment with my core priorities?
Is there a dream I once harbored that needs to be released from the dock and allowed to sail?
Is there a relationship that has been left untended for far too long?
Is the path I am on taking me to a destination I actually desire?

At some point, everyone will be confronted with the foundational questions of a mid-life crisis. Regardless of whether they result in circumstances obvious to others, they will reveal the quality of our priorities – and our choice of priorities determines whether the answers generate destruction or growth.

This sort of assessment is valuable.

Especially if it’s done as a way of making sure our lives and relationships are healthy. There is no reason to wait for mid-life to create a possible crisis by asking these questions. Likewise, it is never too late for a mid-life crisis.

Perhaps if we asked these questions of ourselves (and asked them of our friends) on a regular basis, the answers would not yield a crisis at all. Instead only minor course corrections may be needed.

So the question remains, “Are you overdue for a good mid-life crisis?”

Why You Need a Mid-Life Crisis is a post from: Storyline Blog

The Best Way to React When You’re Scared

Three things startled me recently.

First:

While taking a walk near my house, I came around a corner just as a woman was cleaning up an impressive pile that her dog, a Bullmastiff, had deposited on the sidewalk. My sudden appearance surprised both of them, but I was worried about only one of them. He charged.

A Bullmastiff is, I’m pretty sure, a descendant of the Mastodon. That’s where the “mast” in Bullmastiff comes from. I haven’t looked that up, but I don’t really need to.

Second:

I was moving a pile of wood from my back yard to another place in the yard. I had just had some trees trimmed, and even though I live in Southern California, the Eagle Scout in me spotted those branches on the ground and thought, “Firewood!” So I cut them up and stacked them neatly. But later I wanted to move the stack, so I grabbed an armful and carried the wood to another area.

When I got to the bottom layer, something moved. The tail of something sinister flicked into my sight. So of course I dropped the bundle.

I hate snakes. Why is it always snakes?

Third:

My adult son called and told me he had gotten a new assignment as a videographer. A nongovernmental group was establishing one of the Ebola Treatment Centers in Liberia, and they had hired him to go there and document it all.

What if he got sick? What if he couldn’t leave the country? What if he died from this? And then I started thinking of the thousands of others in West Africa who had this disease.

When the dog charged, I didn’t run.

I just put my hands in the air as if being held at gunpoint, and turned my back to him, waiting for his teeth to sink into one of my legs. Several seconds – nothing. I slowly turned, ready to match the pile he had left a few feet away, and there he sat, looking up at me, excited to meet a new friend. I extended my hand and he let me pet him. “Good dog,” I said.

When the reptile moved under the wood pile, I also threw my hands in the air. But then I channeled my inner Harrison Ford and slowly walked toward it. Gingerly, I pushed a stick into where I had seen movement.

A lizard darted out.

He was under the fence and gone in the blink of an eye.

It wasn’t a snake after all. And I sort of like lizards. “Good lizard,” I thought.

Photo Credit: Mikaela Hamilton

Then the phone call came. I knew this one would take longer to resolve. Ebola. A virus that you can’t see, and don’t know if you have until the symptoms start. Figuratively, I did the same thing as when I saw the dog and when I thought I saw the snake. I lifted my hands. First, out of fear, then out of submission.

Sometimes, things aren’t as bad as they seem.

Sometimes the most natural thing you can do is reach for the sky.

And sometimes your hands stay up there for a long time.

What are some of the things that ended up not being so scary in your life? What still has you reaching for the sky?

The Best Way to React When You’re Scared is a post from: Storyline Blog

If You’re Rushing, Something is Wrong

At Storyline, we’re pretty even keeled. We don’t get too excited or worried and things pretty much get handled ahead of schedule. How that happened with a group of artists, I don’t know, but everybody who works with us seems to appreciate our flow of business.

Essentially, if we are rushing:

We know we’ve done something wrong.

Of course there are plenty of great reasons in life to rush. If you’re an ER doctor or a professional ping-pong player, rushing seems appropriate. But in most endeavors, feeling a constant sense of urgency and panic means somebody hasn’t done his or her job. And that somebody is most likely the person who is making everybody else rush around.

Years ago I worked on a project with another company and noticed everything they did was urgent, needed to be done immediately. I’d get emails that commanded me to respond that day.

I was always exhausted.

What I realized is that the folks running the show didn’t have much of a plan. They were reacting to everything and, sadly, working about twice as hard as they needed to. And of course, the project failed miserably. It cost a lot of people a lot of money.

Learning from that experience helped set the tone for Storyline. I got an email from an outside vendor recently asking for an important decision to be made that day. To be honest, I could have made the decision, but instead I emailed the vendor back and said we simply didn’t do that. And I’d get back to him after I met with our team. What I was doing was teaching the people who work with us about how we do business. We don’t make quick decisions when we don’t have to, and under no circumstances do we panic.

Here are four ways to avoid rushing:
1. Think long term. At Storyline, we have five year goals. Nobody panics about five year goals. We just point in that direction on the horizon and get moving.

2. Devise a plan. Before moving on anything, we develop a plan. The plan needs to encompass all aspects of the project and everybody involved needs to know where they fit and why what they are doing is important to the overall narrative of the project.

3. Choose pace over profit. Many business owners will cringe at this, but we never go for the quick buck. We’d rather define ourselves by being calm under pressure than by reacting quickly. We want to be the narrative-planning company of the future, not the company of the moment.

4. Be early. By this, I mean we start long before we need to to get the job done. We were a month early on our Christmas campaign, a year early on taking registrations for our conferences, a month early reordering books and so on. Rushing often happens when somebody is late with something. We try not to be late.

Are we perfect? Absolutely not. There are times when even the most strategic companies finds themselves reacting and rushing. But if you see us doing that, it’s probably because we made a mistake at some point.

And it stinks when we have to rush.

It feels unnecessary and it also causes me concern that one of our customers is being neglected in our panic. I hate it and I can’t wait to get back to the peace and calm of normal operations.

All this said, I really think slowing life down requires planning early and not deviating from the plan. I think staying calm is only partly about the mental game in the moment, but mostly about what we did the days and weeks and months before the moment hit us on the back of the head.

Are you in an environment where you are constantly having to rush? What would need to be done to move into a more peaceful, calm way of doing life?

If You’re Rushing, Something is Wrong is a post from: Storyline Blog

Why We Pick Apart the People We Admire Most

I recently attended a conference hosting some of the top creatives in the world. I spent every jam-packed day of the conference learning, being inspired and trying to soak up any and all creative magic from those around me.

“Oh, you work for Facebook you say? I think I’ve heard of that…(internal freakout moment).”

I was inspired, yet equally intimidated. I learned many important things that will define the future of my work. But, as the speakers delivered home run after home run, I began to squirm in my seat.

Why am I here?

How can I call myself a designer? Those were real thoughts I started to have. These people are amazing at what they do—they’re amazing at what I do.

Photo Credit: Mikaela Hamilton

There was a section in my conference book to take notes, and even pages to illustrate thoughts. I wrote my notes illegibly small and illustrated my thoughts even smaller—just in case someone glanced at my page. Hopefully they would mistake whatever I’d scribbled as an ink splotch.

Then something shifted.

I began to compare myself to each speaker.

Meh. Not loving that font. I would have curled the “y” a touch more. Is that text centered?

I’d transformed into the 3rd judge from the left on American Idol—minus the salt and pepper chest hair spilling out of my v-neck t-shirt.

My observations had nothing to do with their font choice, hand lettering skills or use of the align tool. (But seriously designers, use the align tool.)

I was insecure.

I’ll admit, I’ve had and will continue to have many moments full of monumental insecurity on my own. But in the physical company of other people in my field of work, my insecurity took over my thoughts in a harmful and backwards way. I was judging, critiquing and comparing myself to the very people I admire most.

It’s important to not only pay attention when we find ourselves judging others, but to ask ourselves why we’re judging in the first place.

Judgment always points to an insecurity.

In this instance, my judgment was a reflection of the precise areas I was insecure about in my own work. And here’s the real problem: Insecurity robs us of the confidence it takes to become great at what we’ve been made to do.

Once I made this realization, it quickly shifted my perspective. It enabled me to fully enjoy being surrounded by people who are great at their craft. It was freeing to put down the scorecard and focus on what I can humbly learn where I am, right now, in the presence of good company.

But you have to pay attention.

When I feel insecurity creeping in, I try to identify those weak spots immediately. Acknowledging insecurity as soon as it bites and then reminding yourself who you really are not only helps to strengthen your personal character, but will also prevent you from missing out on valuable relationships. Shake off your insecurities so you can approach your work with confidence tomorrow.

Judgment will only get in the way if you let it.

Why We Pick Apart the People We Admire Most is a post from: Storyline Blog

3 Keys to Winning the Mental Game

A couple years ago, I had lunch with Ben Malcolmson who serves as the assistant to Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. We met on a Sunday afternoon before the Seahawks were to play on Monday Night Football.

I’d read Coach Carroll’s book Win Forever (a terrific read for any leader) and so knew a little about his coaching strategy and how he encourages his teams to simply believe they are going to win at everything they do.

Then Ben said something I thought was interesting. He said that at the NFL level, all the athletes are world class. He said there really aren’t that many stand-out athletes who are better than any others. He said what it really takes to make it in the league, then, is the mental game and what you’re carrying around inside (he said this pointing to his heart).

That statement hit me.

Because I think it’s true of a lot of us. The truth is, you are likely very skilled in business, in parenting, in writing or in any other career of choice. And chances are what separates you and me from the greats is more than just skill. What separates us is how we respond emotionally and mentally to challenges.

*Photo From the Sidelines

I’m not the best writer in the world, but there are plenty of writers at my level who are producing much more work. Why? They’re better at the mental game. They’re better at getting up every day and doing the work. They’ve beat their demons, or at least they’re better at fighting them.

I’m trying to get better at winning the mental game in 3 ways.

Here’s my advice:
1. We can’t let a setback define us. Can you imagine if Russell Wilson of the Seahawks let one failed pass or a sack define him? He’d be out of the league by the end of the year. Instead, mental strength involves getting up after a setback (quickly) and trying again, learning from what just happened but shrugging off any of its negative effects.

2. Only control what we can control. We hear coaches say this all the time when they’re asked about the performance of other teams. Even though a loss in their division may affect them, that’s nothing they can control. The only thing they need to focus on is the next play, the next game, the next important decision. It’s a string of great decisions that makes a great career, not wishful thinking about what somebody else does or doesn’t do.

3. Treat a victory the same as a loss. I remember taking a tennis class back in college when my coach came over and criticized me for losing focus every time I made a good shot. I’d kind of celebrate in my mind and my opponent would often take advantage of my mental lapse and hit the very next ball by me. What I learned was, good shot or bad, to stay in my routine. In life, this means whether we have a successful blog post, book, sales call or whatever, we shouldn’t let it affect our routine or our rhythm.

In the end, the people who really succeed are those who master the mental game. For me, the mental game means getting up each day and doing great work, regardless of the outcomes, setbacks or successes.

What other paradigm shifts have you encountered that have helped you do better work and live a better life?

3 Keys to Winning the Mental Game is a post from: Storyline Blog