My Mama is KILLING Me trying to sing Irreplaceable on American Idol on the Wii! Geesh! ~shakes head~
Simon is gonna curse her out for that! LOL!
Well, it’s Spring Break at my school so I don’t have any classes this week and I’ve dedicated myself to completing one article everyday and so far I’ve been on target. I have a list of topics that I plan to write about and I’m doing well at completing them.
On my to-do list is to set my writing progression in stages, as far as exposure. I’m currently writing for 3 publications and only two of them are paying. My plan is to develop my niche as a relationship writer by slowly expanding my portfolio, one publication at a time.
How do I choose the topics I’m writing about? I think about a situation that I’ve been through or I listen to the subjects my friends discuss in our conversations.
Tamara called me tonight asking, “How did you DO it?”
“How did I do what?”
“Take care of two kids by yourself I feel like I can’t handle it!”
Great! That’s a topic. Single parents: How to beat the pressure of raising your children without going crazy
Kim called me today telling me how great she felt. “Tee, you know what I’ve realized? When I take the pressure of my expectations for my future out of my mind, I can really take the time to enjoy each day.”
“Hmm..,” I said. “That’s in alignment with the premise of Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now. It basically encourages us to enjoy each moment, not allowing the future or the mistakes of the past to affect our present.”
Great! That’s a topic. How To Make The Most Of Your Now
Let’s not forget about using your past to help build your future. All of those situations that I’ve dealt with; dealing with being a single parent in college, getting over the demise of the relationship with my children’s father, how being isolated helped me to grow as a person or even how cutting my hair affected my life- all of these situations and circumstances make great inspiration for articles.
Ask yourself, “What was the last lesson I learned?” And then share your story.
My girl surprised me with an IM today telling me about her recent successes. Get this…My friend has been fired from every job that she has ever had since leaving college. 13 in all. Yes, I said 13.
But now she has found her right fit. The job she has now caters to her creativity, has a flexible schedule, allows her the freedom to create on her own schedule and has even supported her outside endeavors, causing her to become more confident in her entrepreneural pursuits. Because of this her business is booming, she has finally achieved equilibrium in her finances and she has even come to grips with her single status, no longer feeling guilty about being over 30 and unnattached.
“How did all of this happen?” I asked her.
“I did a ritual for success,” she explained. As she went into detail about how she focused her attention and prayers on longevity and abundance in her personal and career pursuits, I realized that her ritual had nothing to do with witchcraft and everything to do with excercising her faith into a physical activity.
Great! That’s a topic. Rituals- Witchcraft or Focused Faith?
As I’m gearing up for my new job as a blogger for the parenting website, I checked out what other cities are doing with their parenting websites and ours is by far more diverse, maybe because we are in a bigger city and have a bigger budget. I thought that I would blog the way I blog here, but I have decided against it. Because it will be attached to my real name, and therefore searchable by the search engines, (It really trips me out when I look at my site stats and see that people from all over the world are googling me!) it will affect my professional life so I’ll cut back on the emotional venting subjects. I’m going to structure it like an advice column on most days with me telling the story of an issue I dealt with in the past and how I got through it.
This will allow me to add it to my portfolio and further enhance my role as a relationship and parenting writer.
I now say THANK GOD FOR THE DRAMA! Without all the messy situations I’d have absolutely nothing to write about. How’s that for using your pain to empower? Hey! That’s another topic: How to Empower Yourself Through Your Pain.
Let me go add these to my to-do list!