Banishing Doubt

While sorting through comments and checking up on who comments here, I ran across another writer's blog by Beth Ann Allen and happened to read her post on Banishing Doubt. Her opening paragraph really resonated with me these days:

All my life, people have told me, "You can't do that, it's too hard." I believed those people. My mistake. A lot of my self-improvement work, done mostly on my own (and some with therapists), has been conquering the fears that have kept me from pursuing my dreams.

I think this can be the source of many a writer's blocks and the blockage that prevents some from submitting (fear of receiving a rejection.) It also causes some to diddle their lives away dreaming, hoping, wishing rather than expending more effort to bring about success. I wrote a little essay on this topic yesterday at 100 Bloggers. It's the one titled "Positive Spin".

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