Apply them for a more fulfilling writing life
A commandment is essentially a prophylactic measure aimed towards minimizing risk and maximizing benefits.
And these benefits are double-edged. They permeate into your personal as well as your career life.
Give or take, commandments are of best interest to those who abide by them as well as the people, audience or client they interact with.
These writing commandments will do the same: they will benefit you the writer as well as your audience.
Here they are...
The Commandment of Love.
What you love, you will have time for.
If you can love writing, you will subconsciously create a few minutes for it in your…
It’s so much easier to learn as a child but here are three ways you can get over the challenges of learning something new as an adult
Childhood remains the best time to learn any skill.
Children are more patient with failed attempts compared to adults. While they see failure as an opportunity to try again, as demonstrated in babies who learn to walk and falling over several attempts till they can, most adults interpret failing as final and as an excuse to give up trying.
Finally, children being dependent on adults for most of their other needs are less exposed to stress. Whereas, an adult is…
Simple strategies to make your writing shine.
As in water, every single change has a ripple effect reaching every part. In the same way, an improvement in one area of your life permeates other aspects of your life.
This is because every aspect of your life is interlinked with the other.
That's why nothing succeeds like success. And nothing fails like failure.
For instance, a sense of fulfillment in business positively impacts your relationships. You carry the positive energy over to your relationship by default. Because like salt and water, where a man goes, his feelings go.
That means that improving the quality of your writing goes…
How to cultivate peace of mind.
In his book, Peace of Mind, Joshua Liebman described how he collected a list of everything he wanted out of life when he became an adult. On this list were things like love, health, and family. He then took this list and showed it to the people that mattered to him.
When he encountered an old family friend, the man commended him for his list but said that there was something missing.
The old man then crossed out his entire list and wrote the words, "Peace of Mind."
The years in his age have proven to him that having peace…
It is the single habit that separates achievers from dreamers.
There is one decision that takes you a step towards success and happiness in life.
And that decision is taking action.
Not focusing on the outcomes of that action, but on the action itself.
Action is its own reward. If you achieve your aim, you will be happy and confident, but even if you fail, you will learn to do it better the next time. Both ways, you win.
Logan Haney said it so beautifully,
"Taking the action and becoming the person that takes risks to become who he wants to be is worth it on its own."
Again in…
Adversity can indeed be a blessing… in disguise.
Adversity is not always a bad thing.
It can be a veritable training ground towards developing leadership qualities and virtues.
In fact, it is as beneficial to the same degree as we perceive it as a disaster.
As Napoleon Hill rightly said, every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Reading is not enough. Experiencing is the only way to learn some veritable lessons and principles of life.
Combining books and experiences is by far the greatest.
‘’Some men learn all they know from books, others from life; both are narrow…
And a practical strategy on how to save the situation.
If you can pick the early signs of break up, you can save a dying relationship.
A breakup doesn't happen in a day. It is a process that starts long before you hear the words from him.
I had already given up on my previous relationship a month before the day I told my ex that we can't continue anymore.
It started as a thought. A thought that kept rolling like a snowball. The longer it rolled, the more momentum it gathered to power my tongue to let out those words to my partner.
It is difficult to articulate "it…
They put people in harm’s way. And sometimes could be too costly a price to pay.
Growing up, I had a Pastor I admired so much but for one thing.
He was young, vibrant, and most importantly was a voracious reader. But one thing always turns me off. He was too confident of himself.
The few times he gave me a ride in his car, I had my legs shaking for fear after the journey. He was no different from James Bond in the movies.
For that reason, I kinda rather prefer to walk on foot to my destination being someone who fears sustaining a disability or even injury. …
Your limiting belief may be what’s holding you back from living an ideal life.
Beliefs are powerful.
They are powerful enough to commit you to failure or to commit you to success.
The wrong belief can hold you back from achieving your goals.
Many people even while having the potential to be successful are held back by their wrong beliefs.
As they try to move forward towards their goals, their beliefs pull them backward, making it a lot more difficult to achieve those goals. It can be very frustrating.
Again, the wrong set of beliefs disempowers the people who harbor them.
Like cancer cells, they take vital energy from their host that would have…
Towards a more successful career in writing.
There is no better guidance than from those who have gone ahead of us.
Writing is a career, like every other career there are equal chances of success and failure.
The place of guidance is very instrumental to the eventual outcomes of beginning writers lacking in the knowledge and experiences of writing.
Those who seek this guidance and abide by them stand a greater chance of success than the rest of the crowd. It was said best by Isaac Newton in 1675:
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Heeding the advice of…
Joshua Idegbere
27. Studying B.Sc Medicine and B.Sc Surgery [ MBBS] | Writer on Medium| Blogger on WordPress. Meet me: idegberejoshua26@gmail.com
