Play a BIGGER role in life!

Written by Hifzur Rehman


Did you ever think that you are not playingrepparttar role which you should play in your life?

Don’t you think that you are born to play a leading role, a much bigger role inrepparttar 123061 real drama of your life? What is holding you back then? Your own short sightedness!

In order to play a bigger role in life you need to visualize a bigger picture of yourself. Once you have that picture before you, it will be much easier for you to paint that picture into reality.

Every morning, I look inrepparttar 123062 mirror and say “I have to play a bigger role in life”. These simple words make my day, a wonderful day, every day, because my firm determination that I have to play a bigger role in life, keeps my mind in supreme working condition, fully prepared for playing a bigger, bigger, and much bigger role in life. No surprise, my every day is getting better than yesterdays.

Every night, before going to bed, I visualize that tomorrow is going to be better than today. And it happens! Yes, it happens!!

Let Go

Written by Staci Stallings


Although there are a lot of careers in this life that could teach someone to let go, I think that writing has to be nearrepparttar top of that list. Maybe that’s because I write, or maybe that’s because it really is. Whateverrepparttar 123060 case, this understanding was made clear recently when a writer friend of mine askedrepparttar 123061 question, “How could I not seerepparttar 123062 holes in my manuscript that my critique partners caught and pointed out? They were so glaring.”

As a writer, I completely understandrepparttar 123063 frustration in this statement. If you are a high school writer only, you may not. While teaching I saw plenty of high school writers. They wait untilrepparttar 123064 last conceivable moment to start, write down everything they can think of onrepparttar 123065 topic at hand in no particular order, then race torepparttar 123066 teacher’s desk to flingrepparttar 123067 paper at her, hoping it’s good enough for passing. These people are notrepparttar 123068 writers of which I speak.

I’m speaking aboutrepparttar 123069 writers who think allrepparttar 123070 way through every word they put down, who cross out, delete, rewrite, re-think, edit, re-edit, and hone every inch of a manuscript before they let anyone else so much as hearrepparttar 123071 idea presented in it. These arerepparttar 123072 writers who research until their eyes bleed, think until their brain hurts, and generally torture themselves over every single word because it doesn’t just need to be “good,” it needs to be “perfect.”

Then after they can see no other place inrepparttar 123073 entire work of oh, say 80,000 words, they heave a sigh of relief and acquiescence and place it intorepparttar 123074 hands of someone else to read. In high school, these arerepparttar 123075 kids who have been finished withrepparttar 123076 first draft of their 250-word essay 40 minutes beforerepparttar 123077 bell rings, but who are still crossing things out and rewriting them even as they slide towardrepparttar 123078 teacher who’s saying, “That’s it. Turn in your papers.”

It’s painful for them to turn their work over to someone else. It’s like a mother leaving her first baby with a sitter forrepparttar 123079 very first time. They hope and prayrepparttar 123080 reader will be gentle. They hope that whenrepparttar 123081 paper is returned, there are very few red marks if any at all. And above all, they hope they haven’t made any grievous errors that will makerepparttar 123082 reader think they are a complete imbecile who should never have been given a pen and paper inrepparttar 123083 first place.

This isrepparttar 123084 kind of writer my friend was and then camerepparttar 123085 shocker. She had missed something, and not just something but a huge gaping hole inrepparttar 123086 story and how she told it. When that happens to a writer of this ilk, devastation sets in like a hurricane across a soul. Evenrepparttar 123087 mildest criticism is like a knife torepparttar 123088 gut. Immediately afterrepparttar 123089 devastation blows throughrepparttar 123090 rains of doubt begin to pour. “Maybe I’m not supposed to be a writer. Maybe I just don’t have what it takes to do this.”

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