Brian Tracy Helps Me to Reach my Writing Goals

I know what you're thinking to yourself. You know you want to be a writer, but you aren't sure you can do it. You worry about your competence and the quality of your writing as you have just started. You fear complete failure. What you need is Brian Tracy's Ways of Mental Programming from the book "Maximum Achievement."

These laws of mental programming will assist your attitude and mindset towards your writing.

The ten ways of mental programming are as follows. Also, I have listed two ways to overcome limiting beliefs which I read in another book:

Brian Tracy's Ways of Mental Programming:

1. Visualization
2. Affirmations, written
3. Verbalization (affirmations, orally)
4. Acting as if you were a professional writer doing what they do by studying the routines and behaviors of professional writers and copying their models
5. Feeding your mind with ideas about good writing and reading positive writing instruction books
6. Associating with positive people that write as well and networking on writers forums and writers groups
7. Teaching others and writing up your own course or how to manual about writing or blogging about what you have found out about writing in a teaching way
8. Using goal index cards with all your writing goals written on them in present tense and reviewing your writing goals once a day at a meal like breakfast and record your goals one more time in writing in your goals notebook in the form of an affirmation and after writing out the goal think of one more step that you could do that day or that week to help you attain the goal then write it down as a to do with a box in front of it and enter the to do's into your task view of Anytime Organizer or your planner under the correct day. See also the book "How to Get What You Want" which I'll cover tomorrow.
9. Substituting good writing habits of everyday life for previous bad writing habits. For example, if you are writing on the wrong writing software, switching to Scrivener.
10. Apply the law of massive action on your big mega-goal and do 50 things daily to help you attain it (count them up!)

I also cover here two ways to overcome limiting beliefs:

1. List the limiting belief starting with a false belief . State the limiting belief then list five reasons you know the limiting belief is not true. State what you will start believing about yourself instead of the limiting belief.
2. List the limiting belief starting with a false belief. State five action steps you can take now to turn that around and take massive action to fix that limiting belief.

Brian Tracy's Ways of Mental Programming

1. Visualization

Frequently, vividly and intensely visualize yourself doing each step on the route to writing a nonfiction book for four minutes at a time at lunch and before falling asleep at night, twice a day. This only takes eight minutes a day. It works wonders for changing your writing habits.

2. Affirmations, written

Write out what outcomes you want in life in positive stated terms, in the present tense. Start with "I write ..." Include an emotion in your positive statement. For example, "I happily write 26 book drafts of 64,500 words each on topics related to writing, time and productivity and combinations of the three genres by May 10, 2020."

3. Verbalization (oral affirmations)

Say with a smile in front of a mirror out loud "I happily write 26 book drafts of 64,500 words each by May 10, 2020 in 13 days each." In front of your family and spouse say often "I can write."

4. Act as if you were a professional writer, following the same writing habits they implement

Do the same daily routine of a professional writer which is what I do myself since I have all 7 days a week free to write. Before long, you will perform just like a professional writer. In 10,000 hours of writing, you two will be a master at writing.

5. Feeding your mind

Read daily positive writing instruction books and ebooks. I read Amazon ebooks on fast writing at the ends of each writing cycle as my reward for writing once more in my day. I also do Google research queries on my main topic in the middle of my writing cycles. I note all the ideas in a 200 page research journal and the ideas fuel my creativity and my mind.

6. Associating with positive people and writers that are writing as well

Join a writer's group and a writer's forum online. Join the two groups that write 50,000 words of marathon draft writing a year. One is for nonfiction and one is for novels. The group for novels is "NaNoWriMo". I don't know the nonfiction one but I think it is in April. Read blogs on writing and participate in the group discussions on writing by leaving a guest comment on an inspiring blog post for you.

7. Teaching others

Pretend you are writing a course on your craft. What would you teach a beginner first about writing? What next? What after that? Write out your course outline. Collect course outlines on writing posted online. Write up blog posts that teach online by having your own blog like I do.

8. Using goal index cards at breakfast. 

Write out your writing goals on cards or on half sheets of printer paper. Each morning before you eat breakfast, review your writing goal cards and write them out in your goals notebook one by one. Below the card write down a new step you can think of to help you do the goal today or this week. Put a box beside it to fill it in when it is done. Then put the to do's from the morning's goal affirmation session into AnyTime Organizer task view.

9. Substituting good writing habits for bad writing habits

I sometimes catch myself making writing mistakes. When I do, I record the writing mistake in the right hand side of the 2 page spread of my project progress travel journal by Younghusband. Then I endeavor to replace the bad habit with a decent good habit in the writing area.

If you are not currently writing daily and often daily, replace the habit of doing time-wasting activities in your day with writing in cycles instead. I have replaced the activity of watching TV in my day with writing cycles for big blocks of empty time in my week instead of TV.

10. Apply massive daily action towards your writing goals

Do 50 things daily towards your writing goals. Count them up. Do your entire life differently to meet your writing goals and adopt a writing lifestyle. Compose for 3 hours a day on average in total number of minutes a day if you have large chunks of free time available like I do myself. Each time you look at your goals in the morning, list many things you can do to reach your goals and have time in the day to do your planned goal-oriented task.

Set up a time in your day to do your A-1 to A-3 tasks on today's to do list.

Do everything you can do towards attaining your writing goals.

Limiting Beliefs:

1. Writing down your limiting belief and listing 5 reasons why it isn't true and restating your limiting belief to be more positive and not limiting

Write down your limiting belief on paper that is the reason you think you can't achieve the writing goal. List 5 reasons why it isn't true about you personally. Then write a summary statement of your new, replacement, not limited belief in the area and practice the new belief as an affirmation. Phrase the new affirmation positively, in the present tense and with the word "I" in the phrase.

2. Writing your limiting belief and listing 5 action steps to take to make it not so for you personally and then restate your limiting belief to be more positive and not limiting

Write your limiting belief on paper that is the reason you think you can't achieve the writing goal. List 5 action steps towards removing the barrier to success you think you have falsely. Schedule the action steps on your schedule and task view on your planner or AnyTime Organizer. Rephrase the limiting belief to be more positive and no longer limiting at all and practice that as an affirmation. Phrase the new affirmation positively, in the present tense and for you personally with the word "I" in the phrase.

Conclusion

Writing a nonfiction book or novel is sure hard work. It takes determination, skill at your craft, time, effort and patience. It also takes having a decent attitude towards your writing and using mental programming skills in doing your writing as a program of training, practice, and self-development.

To attain high mega-writing goals, you must practice the mental programming steps to maximize your belief structure and attitude or your attitude and sub-conscious programming will cause you to fail at your high mega-writing goals.

I hope this blog post has helped you find out how to attain very high writing goals. It sure helped me to write it up. Go off and write your nonfiction book! Take massive action now!

Good luck to you.

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Julie Nield of central Ohio, United States

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