Back on The Track

Recently I've been listening to a lot of speaches about goals. Let's say that people have very different ideas for achieving.

"Have lots of goals so you achieve some of them!" Uh, no thanks.

"Have one goal. Work on it even if you don't want to achieve it anymore!" Are you kidding me?

"Write down your goals. Put them where you can read them everyday." Not bad, will do.

"Find real motivation. Be passionate about your goals."

Touché.

I have a bunch of goals. I just haven find the real motivation to achieve them. If your goal is to loose weigth, think about the reason you want that. Thats when I realize not every goal was my idea. It was probably something I heard or sromething people normally set as goal.

Once I realize that. I discard it,  focusing on my goals.

So, this week I found out my goal is to edit my book.

And I found real motivation. What's yours?

Writing Tip #10 - The Editing Time

So, you have to edit a book. A book you just wrote.

And you have to go to work, school or both. You have to eat and you have to do it slowly because is healthier, do homework, housework, do exercise because It's very important, sleep at least 7 hours, read that lovely book you bought one day, watch you favorite T.V. Show and hang out with friends, family or people. Because you're a writer, not a hermit.

You happen to have to much to do. As a writer I know you do want to edit you book, even If you're too busy. Maybe you could do two things at once.

But.

When you edit while you do something else you don't pay full attention to it. You barely edit anything, then you'll be somehow disappointed because you're doing an awful job. And you don't want that. Don't let yourself feel that way.

So, this is a simple tip. Find the proper time to edit, and make it only for your book. No editing while eating, no social networks, stop going to the kitchen to get something sweet because you eat more than you write (Yes, I'm speaking for myself right now).

Give yourself a deadline. Make a schedule. Don't waste you time. Do something!

You book will thank you.