If you cannot process and accept criticism, you have a problem.
If you have way too many things people can pick and choose from to criticize you, then you have a totally different problem.
You can still process and accept all that criticism, but if there is always something to criticize, you have to wonder how much merit the criticism holds.
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The process of publishing an article is similar to the process of creating a meal.
If a person is hungry, someone must do some work to get a digestible meal.
It doesn’t always have to be pretty or elaborate, but it has to be adequately prepared to ensure safety.
Sure, you could crack open a raw egg and down it, but someone has to go get that egg from a chicken, and we all don’t have the capacity to raise the animals.
You could possibly eat and digest small amounts of raw meat, but you still have to butcher it, and if you don’t have the space for a chicken coop, you probably don’t have the space to raise pigs or cattle.
Whether you are publishing a potential New York Times bestselling novel, an article for the New York Post, or just a post for your personal blog about life in your corner of your borough of New York, there is a process that must be processed.
The level of presentation may or may not make a difference. You might be catering a large gathering or just making a quick snack. You might be completing a large manuscript or turning in a short memo. You have a process. Words and meals don’t just appear ready for consumption.
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Do you remember ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?’
Some movie buffs determined that in the 1990’s, actor Kevin Bacon was the true center of the cinematic universe. Any recognizable name in film or television could be linked within under six degrees separated (and in most cases no more than four) to working with Kevin Bacon.
This was the key. Kevin Bacon could not have possibly worked with every actor, living or dead. He just worked with so many people that they were very likely to have worked with another actor within the time frame of a few generations.
What does that have to do with anything?
You may not have the enigmatic pull of connection like Kevin Bacon (or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who you could find many connections in the cinematic universe as well). But you do have a greater sense of available connections than you may see past your first level connections on LinkedIn.
Do not underestimate the power of knowing a guy who knows a guy. It really is who you know that knows other prominent people that can help you get ahead.
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According to Wordcounter.net:
– 1 page is 500 words single spaced, 250 words double spaced, and
– 80 pages is 40,000 words single spaced; 20,000 words double spaced.
So, in order to write a good-sized book, you just have to write 500 a day for 80 days.
You do not have to write 500 good words either. There are plenty of horrible books with many more pages than 80.
But if you have a desire to write a book, the first step is to write enough pages.
It’s not as challenging or time-consuming as you think.
By the way, this is only 100 words.
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Someone may ask you, “What do you like to do to make yourself happy?”
Or they ask the same question as, “When you picture yourself happy, what do you picture yourself doing?”
I say both questions are worthless.
Regardless of what activities you are doing, are not doing, choose to do, or choose not to do, your happiness is mostly determined by your want to be happy or not.
Yes, you can be in a terrible situation that I meant to make you miserable. But you can also see the joy in just about anything around you to negate that supposed misery.
Life itself is something to behold. And if you are not being tortured or force to do horrible acts against your will, you get to live your own life. You make the choices, and you can always choose happiness over any other emotion on the spectrum.
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