Just the
other day, someone asked me “How’s the writing going?”
Me, thinking
that he was genuinely interested, proceeded to tell him how I was getting on
with book #4 and what my plans were to publish it when complete.
The ‘someone’
(let’s call him ‘Negative Nancy’ from here on) then proceeded to swamp me in a
load of negative ‘advice’. He said how unrealistic my plans were, how difficult
it is to achieve what I wanted to achieve and how that it was highly unlikely
that I would reach my goal.
Flummoxed, I
was too shocked to respond to his negativity.
I began to
wonder why exactly he had asked me how the writing was going.
Was he
genuinely interested in what my plans were?
Why was he
picking up the first opportunity to try to swamp my dreams with his negativity?
Why ask?
I have yet
to understand what the reasoning is behind this.
Maybe people
feel the need to protect you from potential disappointment.
Maybe people
feel the need to warn you in case you get your hopes too high.
Maybe some
people have just no idea about visualisation.
If you are
going to spend the time to sit down and write a novel of approx. 80,000 words
in length, you NEED to believe that it is going to succeed.
You HAVE to
believe that it is going to be the best book you’ve ever written, that it will
get the publisher that it deserves and that it will sell well.
YOU HAVE TO
DREAM BIG otherwise you won’t have the mental capacity to sit down and write
the damn thing.
STAY AWAY
FROM NEGATIVE NANCY’S.
Negative
Nancy’s do not have the mental capacity to dream big.
They are
constantly living in fear, looking over their shoulder, wondering when it will
all go wrong.
And Negative
Nancy’s want to drag you down in the ditch with them.
RISE ABOVE
THEM. Ignore the negativity and DREAM BIG.
You NEED to
dream big to give you the mental capacity to put the work in!
