coffee with lianna: My 10 Rules for Success

From time to time, I take a moment to reflect where I’m at in my life and where I want to go. During one of these reflections, I read about habits of successful people. You should know I define success not only as financial stability, but also about our journey as individuals and what we give to the world.

As I read, I became aware how discovering what my ten rules for success are, also complimented my journey as a writer. It takes a strong determination to reach our goals as writers. We have days where our “real” life takes over our writing times or days we feel like giving up. Or how about the days you feel as though you’re just spinning your wheels in your writing career. It’s easy to become frustrated if you feel you’re not meeting the milestones you thought you would have already reached. 

A technique I developed over time to combat this was to pick out a small or big goal each day to take a step toward my ultimate goal. By breaking up the larger task into smaller chunks, it helps me feel more successful when before I know it I’m able to cross things off my list.

We all reach milestones at different paces and need to forgive ourselves if we feel we should have been farther along our writing path. Taking time out periodically to reflect also helps me keep moving through what I fondly refer to as “my writing adventures”. After all, we have to protect the reason we started down this writing path in the first place. We love to write romance with happily ever after endings.

The following are my 10 rules for success which I follow to keep myself on track.

1.  Take time to unplug and recharge yourself
2.  Learn to say “no” at the right times and without guilt
3.  Protect your confidence
4.  Never give away your power
5.  Focus on what you’re good at and let go of what you’re not
6.  Have a morning and evening routine
7.  Give to others without giving away your “spare tire”
8.  Periodically ask yourself the following questions…
   1. What do I want?
   2. Am I aligned with my goals?
9.  Every day do something, big or small, to move you toward your goals
10.  Focus on what you want and remember…what you think, you become

Life has a way of pulling us off track and I have found these rules help me keep moving forward toward my goals. What are your 10 rules for success?

Join me for my next "Coffee with Lianna", which will post on August 2, 2019.

Best wishes,
Lianna Hawkins
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