Every morning, I wake up relieved. Relieved they were just dreams. Not that they were nightmares. Just weird. Very weird.
My mind is whirring at the moment.
I did a little research and found that if you write down all the stuff that’s been going on, your dreams will be less whacky.
Something to do with the brain needing to put less energy into sorting stuff out.
Sure enough, I haven’t been keeping my journal up-to-date (cobblers shoes). So, I thought I’d write up some stuff that I was thinking and capture what I’d done in the last couple of weeks.
I thought you might like to take a look, so here’s a sample of my ramblings:
Notes from the lockdown...
It's not one more day in lockdown, it's one day closer to our new normal*’
#change ‘lockdown’ to cocooning.' Try not to say that in an Alan Partridge voice.
*new normal* will win cliche of the year.
I find myself ‘flipping it’ a lot.
Recommending that clients fit their own oxygen mask first. Then realising I didn’t always fit mine.
Giving hope and strategy in equal measure to our current, past and potential customers.
My ability to produce content quickly has become fine-tuned.
Waking up ridiculously early. Three times in the last week I was in my office and working before 7am.
I'm usually the one who mercilessly takes the Mick out of people who do LinkedIn updates like the above... is that me becoming one of those people? Arrggggh - Going to sleep-in tomorrow.
Decided to master dictation software… hooray!
…this is as challenging as it sounds. Before a manual edit, that last sentence read:
‘I've divided Toms master Dick aft hair’
Managed to write, design and publish a document called 100 Ideas For Books in a record 4 hours. It's 3,700 words and, though I say it myself, quite inspirational. It’s here if you’d like a copy.
MY PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT?
Creating Write That Book - a pop-up group to help people to write and have their word read.
On Monday, I launched a challenge. Incredibly, posts and comments increased from around 300 at the weekend to 5,936! in two days.
The finale of Write That Book is a free Zoom Webinar on Monday evening. Even if you haven’t been part of the group, you’re invited.
During a fast-paced, one hour session I'm going to share some key lessons I've learned in 15 years of writing, including:
The biggest mistake I made and how you can avoid it
How to find subjects to write about
The No.1 thing that publishers are looking for -- it's not what you think
My single best editing technique so people read what you writ - it works you've read this far :)
The key to finding writing time
And much more
Plus, I'll be launching my new Write That Book Masterclass and revealing the winners of my Write That Book Challenge.
It’s exclusively on Zoom (no streaming). Just click here to register it's free but I will be promoting the Masterclass for the last 15 mins.
Hope you are having a fascinating week.
Be Brilliant!
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