Success or failure? It's all in your mindset
Your mindset will determine your success, or your failure in any activity.
Many writers make writing too complicated. There's nothing complicated about writing – if you can talk, you can write, and if you can write a letter that gets a response, you can make money writing.
The only thing that stops you is you. Here's how to develop a successful freelance writer's mindset:
1. Stay positive
Staying positive is all about where you put your attention. Everyone has problems. If you put your attention on your problems, you'll get more of them, and the problems you already have will get bigger.
Here's how to deal with problems. You're a writer, so this should be easy. Describe your problem in 25 words or less.
Now make a list of solutions -- be creative here, make your list as long as possible. Now forget about the problem.
Tomorrow, you look at your list. Choose one solution and work out how you can put it into action -- then do it.
From now on, whenever you find yourself mentally occupied with any problem, start thinking about solutions.
Successful people have as many problems as you do. However instead of focusing on the problems, they focus on solutions, and only solutions.
