Looking out for yourself
SHAKING THE TREE #136
No one is coming to save you.
No one.
Your success, your failure, your future—it all depends on you and on your ability to set goals, to create a plan, to take action on your plan, and to adjust your course and tactics and strategies accordingly when things go awry.
And things WILL go wrong.
I guarantee it.
Which means you have to look out for yourself.
Content-wise, unless you’re contracting writers to write for you, you’re it.
You’re writer, editor, designer, and publisher, all rolled into one.
You’re the researcher, the photographer, the graphic designer, and the art director.
It’s all down to you.
Which means you getting down to it and focusing on what needs doing.
It means doing what needs doing when it needs doing.
I know this all sounds obvious but you’d be stunned at the number of would be writers who don’t—or won’t—do any work and who will then go online and bitch, moan, and whine about how hard it all is to get anything done.
So, it’s up to you. Get to it.
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P.S. Next time on Shaking the Tree … The challenge of mastery