Streamwriting

This Saturday I shall be running a one day writing workshop in my local area. I’ve got around 8 people confirmed so far and am aiming for at least 10! The level is high and we’re going to be focussing on some ‘how to’ exercises. How to create totally believable characters. How to write authentic dialogue. How to look at setting from a different perspective.

It’s going to be a fun day! I’ve got about 3 places still up for grabs so if anyone is interested just drop me a line on my email hannah@streamwriting.com

Yesterday I had my first coaching session. It’s called Breakthrough to Success coaching and I signed up for it at the Breakthrough to Success seminar I went on a couple of weeks back. I knew if I had walked out of that seminar without signing up for coaching I would have, quite successfully, talked myself out of it. But the question - When would NOW be the right time to start? - reverberated around my head and I knew I had to sign up for 12 months coaching. It was an act of instinct, of knowingness that if I wanted to turn my life around, and I do, I needed to take action and commit to it.

So I signed the form, paid quite a lot of money (for me), and walked out of that hall knowing I had made one of the most important decisions in my life. To start investing in me. I believe that all successful change, be it in relationships, finances, career, even health, happens when we allow it to. It happens from the inside out. As I have said before on this blog, clear the inner obstacles, the limiting belief choices, the blocking emotions, and you go a long way to achieving your goals.

I found the weekend seminar hugely helpful, but I knew I hadn’t got rid of all my shit in one 3 day course. I knew that to fully commit to my vision of publishing my book and it becoming a bestseller, I had to go deeper. What is it that sometimes holds me back in my life? What fears do I have around success? What limiting decisions have I made along the way that can now be dropped?

Coaching allows you to confront all of this and gives you permission to become the biggest, brightest version of yourself. To move from where you are now to where you want to be. To step into your authentic self.

I’m dead excited by the prospect of the next 12 months and all the change I will make. Change comes from the inside first. Change my inner workings and I’ll see the outside manifestation of it. I’ll keep you posted!

My goal is clear and loud, and here’s how they teach you to phrase it: It is now (insert date) and I am/I have (insert goal and be as specific as possible!) So, for example, It is now Oct 2008 and I am standing in my kitchen talking on my mobile to my agent and he’s just told me that the Spanish territory rights to my novel have been sold!

Try a few for yourself. Have fun with them. And don’t just believe them, expect them.

If you are interested in the Breakthrough to Success weekend, and they take place in London, Australia and the US - then click on this link and book your free ticket NOW. Ask yourself, is now the right time to start?

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This past weekend I went on the most amazing course. I’m a fan of courses, semimars, workshops, and the like, particularly those aimed at self-development. This 3-day course was a hybrid of NLP (neuro linguistic programming), hypnosis, and the latest techniques in re-setting negative mind patterns.

Now what has this got to do with writing?

Well, in my own personal experience and that of working with lots of other writers, one of the biggest stumbling blocks I keep coming up against is that of self-belief. Or lack of it.

The limitations we place upon ourselves, in all walks of life, are often the things which hold us back. We think we are not good enough, we have the fixed opinion that getting a book published will be hard work, we expect rejections. And when we get a rejection we let that rejection spiral into other rejections because we start to equate one person’s opinion with everyone’s opinion.

Which is why coaching is such a big business. An athlete needs a coach. A tennis star has a coach. A singer often has a voice coach. Even the most successful people in the world have coaches. Especially the succussful people. Why? Because a coach helps you eradicate all the weaknesses in your game. A coach can help you believe.

I’m not going to go on and on about coaches here, but what I will say is that being a professional writer is not always about having the best product on the market. It’s about self-belief, the self-confidence to promote yourself, and the focus, will, and power to keep going when you have a goal worth pursuing.

I haven’t written this blog for a while, 3 weeks or so, mainly because I’ve been busy, but also because I’d gone off the boil re my own novel. The rewrite loomed over me, I found myself staring at blank page after blank page whilst my mind floated skyward, and deep down I was starting to doubt. Doubting my ability to finish a project, to successfully sell a project, to make it into the big time. I’d had the course scheduled for months, it was a gift, a free ticket, and I knew it would represent a turning point for me, because what I needed more than anything was a healthy kick up the butt.

I highly, more than highly, more than anything, recommend this weekend course. There’s ones in Australia, the US and London so whereever you are you can go experience the Christopher Howard experience. He’s a dynamic, fun, charismatic teacher that will help you unearth any limiting beliefs that are holding you back from actualising your dreams.

I’ve got a hundred free tickets for the next Breakthrough to Success seminar in March. It takes place in London and if you want to reach into your pysche and pull out any demons, or if you want to believe that anything, even having a bestselling book, is achievable, then click on this link and reserve your place now.

http://champions.christopherhoward.co.uk/ukbts.asp?cli=CLA1017875