CONFIDENCE | PROBLEM SOLVING

Stop Making Your Writing Feel Inferior By Empowering Your “Trashcan”

The messy stage is a shitty stage. Embrace it as a work-in-progress.

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Being a very observant person, I note the little things and how I’m affected by them.

Concepts most writers gloss over, hold deep translations for me.

Example:

• I don’t view my bathroom as a wasteland but as a source of inspiration.
• I don’t think of spring cleaning as a chore but a stress-relief activity.

In the same vein, I view the ‘trashcan’ differently. I see it as a confidence killer.

For every page you rip out of frustration, scrunch up, and shoot into the ‘trash can’, you sacrifice a piece of your confidence with it.

The messy stage is a shitty stage, but it’s part of the process

As an accountant, I don’t enjoy discarding my efforts out of frustration when my calculations aren’t in alignment. I feel like a total failure. So, I keep my desk surrounded by the mess.

Doing this reminds me of how intentionally I’ve invested my time and energy into solving my problems. It…