Beware the Negative Nancy's!

   

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!