Can You See Yourself Writing in 2020?
Learn how to find endless inspiration to help you publish more
Seeing 2020
I’m planning to use my family to help, and you can too
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Where do you see yourself in 2020? What resolutions have you set or goals do you hope to achieve? Many writers set goals for themselves without really pressing into how the goal can be achieved. After a depressing 2019 with few submissions behind my name, I’m both hesitant and proud to say that 2020 will be different. But truly, I think I’ve tapped into something pretty unique and special to help me to write more in the New Year. Recently, I’ve learned how to use my family to help me write more and improve my writing overall. I’d love to share with you my new strategy in hopes it can improve your writing in the new year as well. I see myself writing with passion and ambition like never before. With a clearer vision and clearer mission, I’m really looking forward to promote other writers as we celebrate #Seeing2020.
When it comes to writing, many of us simply write to get our thoughts on a page and hope someone reads them in a way that improves their life. We hope to make a human bridge through our words and let the reader connect to the stories we tell and the sentences we script. We empathize with one another and it creates a beautiful symbiosis of human relationship. Whether it comes from our closest friends or that of our family, perhaps you can think of someone you know who seems to truly understand you better than anyone else? For many of us, we’ve spent so much time with our family members that we know them like the back of our own hands. We know them well. We know their strengths and their weaknesses, their struggles and their accomplishments.
As a health professional and life coach impromptu, I often discuss topics of health, wealth, and happiness with people. I help people connect the dots between what they want, where they feel hurt, and how to reach the goals they seek to achieve. People express their complaints, frustrations, and all of life’s difficulties. Maybe you’ve had someone explain theirs to you? Have you ever considered yourself as a coach or teacher, striving to bring someone through a difficult situation or just help them out in a time of need? When we write, we often want to help teach or lead others to a better life. This is a great opportunity to remember why we need to write, and write more. Our writing can have a powerful impact on the lives of others. Words matter, whether you’re speaking to a friend, neighbor, or stranger, the words that you use mean something.
Empathy
This happens on a pretty regular basis — if not every single day.
Bridging the gap between our fractured narratives of human experience, writing and speaking to one another can help us learn from one another, realize we’re not alone, and we’re all in this together. The conversations you and I have with others can be deeply emotional and very challenging to work through at times. Let’s be honest, life can be challenging. The sharing of experience and support can be incredibly helpful and lead to great change for the future. I understand myself better by asking other people questions. The more I learn and listen, the better I can serve and meet their needs. It is really hard to help someone you’ve never met before, but you probably know just the thing to help one of your family members. Around the holidays, we buy gift cards for people too hard to shop for, but we usually find unique and meaningful presents for our closest family members.
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “if you like what you do, you won’t work a day in your life.” I think we all have the chance to teach and educate others. I think we all have something to share and something we can learn, something to give and something to gain. This is an overlooked benefit to our writing, connecting reader and writer, neighbor to neighbor. Have you ever had a chance to teach someone else? Have you ever felt the surge of energy from witnessing someone learn? It’s exciting. Have you ever had the chance to volunteer and felt much better afterwards? That’s the human connection that I’m talking about. It is this same level of human connection that I think drives us forward in our life and in our writing as well.
Empathy speaks to us, and we need to listen. What better source for fuel our writing in the new year than that of our family. Imagine your writing as volunteerism for your family, helping improve their life with each tap of the keyboard. If you consider your writing as an act of service to your family, I bet that you will feel more comfortable and confident in your approach and your process. If you’re anything like me, then writing will become more natural to you than it ever has before. Interacting with our family can be difficult at times, it can be arduous but also the most fulfilling and gratifying of times.
Education is Empowerment
There’s so much you can do with education. Education can take you anywhere, but quite frankly, without it we’re not likely to end up very far. This is also another reason why I think teachers are so great. They have a bold faith to believe that their service today will reap future benefits for their students and our society. Teachers stand in their overlooked classrooms, often taken for granted and poorly supported, while they continue empowering the next generation. Do you consider yourself a teacher? I think you should.
Teachers are our superheroes
Education is empowerment. With education, each student is better prepared to live his or her best life possible. Our writing has the opportunity to educate and inspire. Do you realize how impactful your writing can be? Imagine writing to educate, writing to inspire, writing to empower. This is where you can use your family to your benefit.
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Education comes close to home
One of the things I’ve grown to learn about education in general is that it can happen anywhere. And one mantra I’ve grown to echo from time to time is ‘every moment can be a teaching moment.’ Likewise, each moment can be a learning moment. If someone is teaching, someone must be learning. I’ve learned a lot about myself and my own writing style over the years. The more I connect to an imagined reader as I prepare my drafts, the more I enjoy the entire writing process as a whole. It is incredible how quickly I begin to script 500 words when just thinking more about my family and less about my writing. Who do you write for?
Some say writers must craft an avatar that motivates their writing, and marketers must write to their ideal client. I think for many of us, these motivating characters are difficult to imagine out of thin air and even harder for us to grasp consistently when we need to sit down to write. However, it can be so much easier to remember our avatar or ideal client when all we have to do is look from within our homes. We don’t need to get caught up in the madness of writer’s block or falling victim to the notorious imposter syndrome. Rather, we can look inward for our writing material and the needed courage to hit publish. Why hold all that knowledge inside yourself when it needs to come out in order to help and teach others. Imagine your child was waiting patiently for you to respond to him or her, would you step up to the challenge, the call and opportunity to educate and empower?
Readers are waiting
With instant access to a world connected through the internet, your readers across the globe are waiting for you to publish. Many of them may enjoy reading your writing more than what you think. Some of them may sit down to read your writing while sipping their favorite beverage in the morning. If writing has become part of your regular routine, your published articles may very well become part of your readers’ morning routine. With each new submission, you can send out a new recipe for success or prescription for health. Like I said before, words matter and your writing can make a real difference for your readers. Some are waiting patiently, others eagerly — all hungry for you to hit submit.
We can look deeper into our own lives and households, our spouses and children to find inspiration to write. While we may struggle to straddle an imaginary avatar out of thin air, we can expedite a lot of our writing processes if we simply imagine writing to our brother or sister, mother or daughter, father or son. What do your processes look like? I for one have found explosive growth in content creation and writing ideas through my interactions with my family. I’m looking forward to writing more and writing more often in 2020. Are you?
Family is Love
Love is the most powerful motive.
Our desires to lead and impress education and empowerment upon our loved ones, our clients, readers, and avatars can provide a lifetime of writing prompts. Now with all we’ve discussed here, I want to send you away with your own healthful healing dose of encouragement for you to keep up the writing, for now, and forever. Open up a can of words from your family at home in order to spark some creative juices for valuable content that others can use in their own daily lives. If you write to your family, consider the fact that there’s someone else that’s going to read your work that belongs to a whole different family. From family to family, we can help spread education and promote learning through the art of writing. How neat is that!
As we look towards 2020 and the calling of a new decade, may your writing be filled with inspiration and motivation, and quite possibly a few subtle family ties along the way. So, I’ll end here with this as another call to action, suggesting you reimagine your inspiration to write. Take a closer look at your family, write them letters, write to their needs. You may be surprised by how much you want to write when using your family to help you write. Feel free to share how your family helps you in your writing. Coming to a close, let me ask you again, where do you see yourself in 2020? Do you see yourself writing more often or learning new ways to improve your writing? Share with us your goals and your dreams for 2020, dream big and don’t hold back. We love to hear from our family of readers and fellow writers. Life is busy, and writing takes time. Here’s to our families, who can help us write more.
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